Corporate Tax Associate Director

Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.

About the team

'I have been with Forvis Mazars for just over 5 years and what makes Forvis Mazars different is the friendliness of our team and the willingness of everyone in the team to help and collaborate on getting the right advice to our clients. We also have a strong culture in helping staff to achieve their long-term goals at their pace.' (Ludovic Black, Tax partner, Milton Keynes)

We provide bespoke advice in all areas of taxation, helping our clients to navigate the complexities of tax codes, often in multiple areas of sector jurisdictions, and to help them ensure they are fulfilling all their obligations and paying the correct amount of tax. In this way we help them to manage an area of significant financial and reputational risk and to make properly informed decisions about their tax position whether they are an individual, a business owner or a corporate organisation. We also help clients resolve any disputes they have with the tax authorities as swiftly as possible.

About the role

Your role as Associate Director in our National Tax Reporting team will include:

• • Building long-term relationships across a portfolio of clients which you will have responsibility for managing.
  • Leading the Milton Keynes-based Tax Reporting team, providing guidance, coaching and training to junior staff members to help them maximise their career opportunities.
  • Reviewing and approving corporation tax computations and tax accounting, as well as undertaking some tax assurance reviews. Involved in ad-hoc advisory work that flows naturally from your Reporting responsibilities.
  • Negotiating and raising timetables and fees and being responsible for WIP management on your portfolio of clients.
  • Proactively talking to clients about tax opportunities which may be relevant to them, and working with the tax partners, and wider tax team to deliver on such work.
  • Being an active member to national Tax Reporting Team, ensure national procedures are rolled out and fully adopted in Milton Keynes.

What are we looking for?

• • Extensive experience of working with a portfolio of clients to deliver on annual Tax Reporting requirements.
  • Demonstrate broad and strong technical tax knowledge and experience.
  • Works effectively as part of a larger team, who proactively manages all team members.
  • Broad experience of managing the financials on clients, setting timetables delivering on budgets and negotiating fees with clients.
  • Experience of identifying opportunities for business development on tax clients (and ideally across other service lines).
  • Willingness to take on leadership roles both within Milton Keynes and across the wider Tax reporting team as we foresee this being a key senior leadership role for Forvis Mazars in the near future.

About Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.

Both member firms share a commitment to providing an unmatched client experience, delivering audit & assurance, tax and advisory services around the world. Together, our strategic vision strives to move our clients, people, industry and communities forward. Through our reach and areas of expertise, we help organisations respond to emerging sustainability issues in the global marketplace including human rights, climate change, environmental impacts and culture.

We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.

At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.

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Our aim is to make the recruitment process as accessible and inclusive as possible - please contact us to discuss any changes you may require so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

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