VAT Compliance Manager - Top 30 - AJ Chambers : Job Details

The Role

The Manager role is a challenging but highly rewarding position. As a manager, you will be responsible for day-to-day technical work through to people management, offering lots of variety and opportunity to develop.

What you will be doing

Onboarding:

• Providing support on calls with new clients for junior members of the team and providing constructive feedback.

• Reviewing internally generated resources prepared by team and amending where necessary.

• Assessing whether advice should be further reviewed by Associate Director.

• Assessing upselling opportunities for new clients re: compliance and technical advice.

• Co-ordinating with registrations team to answer compliance questions which arise during VAT registration.

Enquiries:

• Co-ordinating with line report to make sure that tax office enquiries for whole team are accurately recorded, risk assessed and answered within deadlines.

• Tracking profitability of all tax office enquiries for team and recommending fees for wider team on ad hoc enquiries work.

• Reviewing responses to tax offices by wider team upon request.

People Management:

• Regular 1-2-1s with line reports to monitor progress on technical understanding and competencies.

• Regular informal check-ins with junior members of the team to identify training needs and monitor technical understanding.

• Preparation of monthly update for management meetings.

• Monitoring use of and compliance with new processes within the team (eFiler).

New Business:

• Attending calls for prospective clients where requested.

• Preparation of fee proposals for compliance and advisory work.

Compliance:

• Working with junior members of the team to help them meet compliance deadlines and tracking upcoming deadlines.

• Review of VAT returns in all jurisdictions offered by Fiscal Solutions (c.30+).

• Feedback on quality of VAT compliance workings and identifying ways to minimise risk and make processes more efficient.

• Checking in with team members to make sure that tax office correspondence is risk assessed and actioned.

• Monitoring retrospective filing work and assessing/anticipating risks.

Generating IP:

• Creation of new VAT workings templates for new services and maintenance of existing templates.

• Reviewing new invoice templates and maintaining EU VAT legislation database.

• Reviewing changes to EU VAT compliance packs.

Advisory:

• Writing advisory reports for EU/UK/ROW VAT/GST.

• Attending calls with clients to understand advisory needs.

• Attending weekly technical meetings with Associate Director and Partner.

What we’re looking for

• Excellent verbal and written English. The ability to explain complex issues in a clear way.

• High attention to detail.

• Ability to minimise errors in own work and spot errors in others.

• Navigate competing priorities and deadlines, switch quickly between topics. Display excellent time management skills.

• Have a thorough knowledge of compliance in FS core jurisdiction UK, FR, DE, NL, IE.

• Passionate about solving technical and complex VAT issues.

• Keep up to date with changes in EU legislation and seek to understand it.

• Ability to delegate and manage upwards in the business.

• Understanding of the EU VAT Directive and comfortable in referring to relevant national legislation.

• Understanding of key EU VAT topics including place of supply, liability to account, scope of VAT, chargeable event, when to account for VAT, reporting requirements.

• Ability to use MS Office suite, with intermediate Excel, Word, and Outlook. Basic PowerPoint and Publisher.

• Demonstrable management experience, with the ability to motivate and develop those around you.

What you’ll bring

• Must be able to work on own initiative and be self-motivated to do the day-to-day.

• Being honest and having strong moral principles.

• Understand that our clients and colleagues have competing demands which may not align with our own. Able see different perspectives and avoid black and white thinking.

• Unafraid to ask for help and be honest appraising their own strengths and weaknesses.

• Willing to push oneself to attempt new tasks and experiences, takes responsibility to continually develop technical and soft skills, and address weaknesses. Be brave in pursuing opportunities that the role offers.

• Committed to developing the team by coaching and managing other so that they can reach their potential.

• Think about the consequences of any approach and consider the position of multiple parties and the impact of any decision or advice made. Will not only recognise the opportunity but also the potential risks.

• Willing to have difficult conversation with clients and colleagues, diffuse stressful situations and manage disagreements in a professional manner to resolve conflicts.

• Remaining determined and motivated to get to the right answer, as often it can be difficult to find or understand answers to questions.

• Must apply logic to problems and approach work in a structured manner using the fundamental principles of VAT legislation as a guide.