VAT Advisory & Business Development Manager

My client require an ambitious, confident individual, with excellent knowledge of VAT to join their growing team.
Your primary focus will be cultivating strategic relationships with businesses facing complex VAT challenges and opportunities, responsible for assisting Directors and Partners in winning clients, delivering VAT services and also managing some of the people within the Team.

Role Responsibilties:

• Manage the businesses' growth strategy for VAT advisory services (and other indirect taxes e.g. IPT, where suitable) across various 'VAT-sensitive' sectors, focusing primarily on the financial services sector
• Identify and agree opportunities, relationships and targets in conjunction with the VAT Partner and the Business Development team.
• Use existing strategies and develop / implement new strategies to target and win new clients
• Ensure full alignment into wider firm BD initiatives in Financial Services sector, and other sectors as appropriate.
• Work with their Proposals team to ensure that tender documents and pitch presentations reflect client needs and articulate our value proposition.
• Building and maintaining relationships with existing VAT clients by providing high level of client service and engendering trust with clients.
• Converting 'quick questions' re VAT into high value / profitable advisory projects.
• Managing WIP and billing for own clients, ensuring that fee proposals are commercial and WIP recoveries are strong.
• Advising on a wide range of VAT issues such as expanding into different jurisdictions, VAT treatment of new income streams, handling / resolving HMRC disputes.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• Extensive experience of winning new projects / clients for VAT services (e.g. VAT refund claims) in a professional services environment
• Proven track record of managing and delivering successful VAT business development initiatives, in conjunction with a wider VAT team.
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent relationship-building skills with a high level of commercial and personal awareness
• Proven skills in VAT advisory work gained in practice
• Up-to-date VAT technical skills and experience, across a broad range of large corporate and owner-managed business issues
• Able to manage a client portfolio profitably.
• Able to deal with VAT advisory matters and report writing (including due diligence)
• ACA/CA/CTA qualification or equivalent is not essential, but helpful