VAT Associate Director

Cardiff Permanent View Job Description
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.
  • Win and manage a portfolio of VAT clients
  • Provide industry leading insights, solutions and advise on a national level

About Our Client

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.

Job 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.

The Successful Applicant

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.

What's on 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.

Contact
Doug McGarvey
Quote job ref
JN-092024-6543163
Phone number
07811005917

Job summary

Job function
Accounting
Subsector
Commercial & Analysis
Sector
Business Services
Location
Cardiff
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Doug McGarvey
Consultant phone
07811005917
Job reference
JN-092024-6543163