An extraordinary opportunity has opened for a VAT Associate Director to lead business development in a thriving Top-20 Accountancy Firm. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing expert VAT advice and solutions to a diverse range of clients, winning and managing their own portfolio and create and maintain strong and long-lasting relationships with clients, Directors, and staff.

Client Details

Our client is a Top-20 Accountancy Practice with over 130 offices across the UK & Ireland. With the resources of a large organisation and the hands-on, considerate, personal approach typical of your local accountancy firm, our client is able to offer the best of both worlds to their clients & employees alike.

Description

Although formally situated in Cardiff, the successful candidate can be based out of any of my clients Southern-UK offices, including central London.

The successful candidate will be responsible for...

• Win and manage own portfolio of clients.
• Provide industry leading insights, solutions, and advice to build the firm's reputation and client base.
• Promote the firm's products, services, and image to generate new business opportunities and enhance its reputation.
• Create and maintain strong and long-lasting relationships with clients, Directors, and staff.
• Contribute to strategic and business planning to deliver an increase in revenue and profits.
• Recruit, develop and manage a high performing team who deliver a great service to clients and meet their billing targets.
• Create a high-performing culture where people live the vision, mission and values and act to improve if not.
• Hold responsibility for client relationships up to £600k of revenue to ensure the best possible value, advice and quality and compliance for clients.
• Ensure client work complies with all legal and ethical standards and statutory regulations.
• Provide leadership and direction to the team to help motivate and inspire people to higher performance.
• Set performance measures, review performance, and take effective action to improve when off track.
• Develop workforce planning and workload management processes that ensure the correct staffing levels to process workload.
• Develop people, processes, systems, and practices to raise productivity and output quality.
• Be a strong role model for the organisation's values and standards to develop a high-performance culture.
• Develop and maintain the highest standards of technical knowledge and expertise for self and others.
• Measure the service provided to clients and implement improvements to deliver industry leading service to clients.
• Complete own portfolio of client work to provide industry leading insights and advice.

Profile

A successful VAT Associate Director should have:

• Working closely with the leadership team, you will bring strong corporate sector VAT consulting experience; be commercially savvy, and with the people skills to have an impact with both your clients and internally.
• You will work on clients both nationally and locally and be excited about playing a real part of the firm's ongoing success.
• The role can be based in any of my clients offices in the UK nationally.
• You will need UK VAT consulting experience and be enthusiastic by the type of work the team is getting involved in and the prospects on offer.
• Prior VAT Housing Association and/or public sector focus useful but not essential.

Job Offer

Salary: Competitive - enquire for more details

• Company Pension Scheme
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• Additional annual leave days from certain levels of seniority
• Ability to buy up to 5 days of annual leave to reach a maximum of 30 days per annum
• Business closure over Christmas*
• Life Assurance x4 annual salary
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Enhanced Company Sick Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 support, free and confidential
• Corporate Discounts Platform

For more questions regarding this opportunity, please enquire to the attached details.