Job Summary
The Tax Director will provide strategic and technical leadership across the firm’s tax activities, overseeing a portfolio of clients and ensuring the delivery of high-quality tax compliance and advisory services.
The Tax Director role is a senior leadership position within the Tax practice and is designed to provide a pathway towards Partnership, subject to demonstrated performance, leadership, business development capabilities and the firm’s partnership criteria.
The selected candidate will contribute to the development and growth of the Tax Department.
The Tax Director will also lead and develop team members while ensuring engagements are delivered in accordance with applicable legislation, professional standards, internal policies and quality requirements.
Main Responsibilities
Tax Compliance & Tax Advisory
- Lead complex tax advisory and compliance engagements for local and international clients.
- Advise on corporate income tax, VAT, and other direct and indirect tax matters.
- Provide technical advice on transactions, reorganisations, investments, and business initiatives.
- Review complex tax positions, technical memoranda, tax computations, and statutory filings.
- Oversee the preparation and timely submission of tax returns and statutory filings.
- Ensure compliance with tax legislation, regulatory requirements, and internal quality standards.
- Identify key tax risks and recommend appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Manage tax audits, investigations, objections, and tax authority queries.
- Monitor legislative developments and assess their impact on clients.
- Maintain appropriate engagement documentation and quality controls.
- Act as a senior technical reference and provide guidance to the Tax team.
Leadership & Team Development
- Supervise, coach, and mentor team members, ensuring development and performance improvement.
- Review work performed by the team, ensuring quality, accuracy and compliance with standards.
- Allocate tasks effectively and monitor workload distribution.
- Foster a high-performance and collaborative team environment.
Requirements
Qualifications and Competencies
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in a similar role.
- Strong technical knowledge with Microsoft Office Suite, particularly in Excel and Accounting softwares.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, a collaborative style, a commitment to service and an ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
- Solid analytical, problem solving, and planning skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to work well in a team environment and/or independently.
- Experience in Accounting and the capability to manage also the Accounting Department would be a strong advantage.
Proactive reserves the right:
- To call only the shortlisted candidates for interview.
- Not to make any appointment following this advertisement nor to assign any reason whatsoever for accepting or rejecting any candidate.