Indirect Taxes Technical Manager

The Indirect Taxes Technical Manager reports to the Indirect TaxesTechnical Officer and works closely with the National Head of Tax Policy, otherNational Tax Technical Officers, the Indirect Taxes service line head, taxspecialist groups, National Head of Tax Operations and local office tax teams,as appropriate., Theprincipal responsibility of the Indirect Taxes Technical Manager is to assistthe work of the Indirect Taxes Technical Officer and National Head of Tax Policyin providing :

• Technical support to a wide range of partners and staff, both within the Tax Practice and the firm's other technical specialist departments (such as the National Audit Technical Services and learning & development teams)


• Internal technical updates, guidance and client facing and other materials on indirect tax technical issues that impact on the Tax Practice and the firm's business and clients.


Detailed duties

The day-to-dayduties of the Indirect Taxes Technical Manager include working with other tax,accounting, learning & development, marketing and other specialistcolleagues, as appropriate, to :

• Provide specific technical policy support and guidance on issues identified by the National Tax Technical team and wider Tax Practice as requiring consideration on a proactive (prior to legislative changes, case law etc) or reactive basis, attending and contributing to meetings and calls as necessary.


• Communicate key technical developments internally and more widely within the RSM network, by contributing to the preparation of written material for the monthly Tax Technical Update, weekly VAT Update, ad-hoc Tax Practice Alerts and other communications.


• Identify potential business development opportunities from case law and legislative developments and contribute to the preparation and review of clear and concise tax briefings, updates and other business development and delivery support materials for clients and targets, as required.


• Prepare and review tax content for the firm's external marketing materials, publications and events (including Tax Voice, Budget commentary and similar marketing initiatives and events).


• Provide responses to client related tax technical queries from the Tax Practice, ensuring discussions and advice given are recorded and shared as appropriate, and carry out occasional ad-hoc client work in support of local office tax teams.


• Draft, edit, review and deliver materials for training and workshop day presentations, including face to face, computer-based and other formats of training modules, webinars and tax counsel briefing meetings.


• Maintain, develop and share various tax technical information resources, including technical material for the firm's external website and intranet, including the tax knowledge database.


• Provide technical input to the review of standard documents and other delivery materials and agree and record the firm's operational policies on tax matters in the firm's Tax Operational Policies and Procedures manual.


• Contribute responses to consultations on tax matters issued by government departments and other external bodies, attending meetings and calls with HMRC officials and other organisations where appropriate.


• Attend regular and ad-hoc National Tax Technical and wider Tax Practice team meetings and calls.
  
  A relevant technical qualification or equivalent experience.


• Fundamentally sound tax technical and research skills and a desire to develop wider and deeper tax technical knowledge / expertise covering a potentially wide range of issues and new areas of tax.


• The ability to communicate clearly and concisely in writing to a variety of audiences.


Excellent presentation skills.

• The ability to manage projects to ensure delivery of own work within agreed, often short, timeframes.


• Flexible, diligent, resilient and efficient to deliver work on time, often with limited close support.


• Responsive and proactive team-working approach.
  
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About the Department

TheNational Tax department provides technical and operational support to thefirm's Tax Practice, comprising approximately 100 partners and 800 other staff., Thisrole is open to full and part time, with flexible hours considered. Additionally, this role can be based in many of our office locations, please see above for the office most local to you.