Stamp Taxes, Director

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Company Description

The Real Estate Group at Evelyn Partners incorporates people from across our Tax, Transactions, Assurance and Advisory service areas. In Real Estate Tax, we provide tax advisory and compliance services to UK and international property investors and developers, including funds and asset managers, REITs, overseas investors, housebuilders, owner-occupiers, landed estates, and private clients. We also work closely with our colleagues in Transaction Services in relation to Real Estate M&A assignments, providing financial and tax due diligence, tax structuring and transactional support services. Many clients and targets are international, whether investing from overseas into the UK or investing into assets abroad, and, therefore, many of our assignments involve working with colleagues from across our CLA Global network.

This is an exciting time to join the Evelyn Partners Real Estate Group, as it's undergoing significant growth and Real Estate is a strategic focus sector for the firm. We are looking for candidates with specific experience in Real Estate who would thrive in a dynamic and entrepreneurial working environment. Candidates should have excellent technical skills that they can apply in both an advisory and compliance capacity, and strong client/project management skills to support senior team members with delivering advice and growing client accounts.

Job Description

To lead the Stamp Taxes practice for the Evelyn Partners Group. You will be expected to take strategic responsibility for the Stamp Taxes practice and grow the business through leveraging internal opportunities and building external referral networks. You will need to support the Real Estate team and the wider practice, working with a variety of people across many parts of the business. You will be expected to structure the Stamp Taxes team to facilitate continued training and development for key staff members, improve technical enhancement for the practice as a whole, establish good practices for other parts of the business engaging with the Stamp Taxes team and build relationships with HMRC Stamp Taxes. You will take ultimate responsibility for the delivery of complex Stamp Taxes assignments for the firm.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA) and/or CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA, e.g. law qualification)

Additional Information

Key Responsibilities

Client work

• Oversee the delivery of Stamp Taxes advice for various teams across the practice.
• Provide exceptional client service - both to partners/directors in the firm, and to clients directly.
• Lead on complex Stamp Taxes assignments providing technical sign-off and consultation.
• Identify opportunities to grow a client account and/or to manage risks.
• Act as a trusted adviser and engage with clients on wider commercial and strategic issues.

Staff Management and Development

• Liaison with Partner and Directors.
• Counsel and develop junior staff through delegation and on the job training.
• Appraisals/monitor staff performance including acting as a Line Manager.
• Work collaboratively with peers in the team and across firm to ensure a joined-up approach.

Practice Development

• Enhance technical knowledge and capability in the Stamp Taxes team.
• Grow internal network & external referral network for business development.
• Drive business development through specialist insights.
• Train specialist team on wide range of Stamp Taxes issues.
• Improve firm-wide knowledge on Stamp Taxes opportunities & risks.
• Establish relationships with Stamp Taxes technical bodies and HMRC.

Key skills experience

• Significant experience in Stamp Taxes gained from practice and/or industry.
• Client driven and commercially minded.
• Strong awareness of other key taxes and, in particular, for the Real Estate sector.
• Excellent project management, working with various teams.
• Demonstrable experience of managing people and clients.
• Excellent communicator.
• Experience of dealing with senior stakeholders both internally and externally.

Our Values & Behaviours

Personal

• We take time to listen to & understand people's individual needs
• We treat everyone fairly & with respect
• We are honest & genuine

Partnership

• We build lasting, mutually beneficial relationships
• We value everyone's contribution
• We partner across the full breadth of our expertise to create shared value

Performance

• We are ambitious for our clients and act with their interests in mind
• We keep our promises & deliver excellence at pace
• We lead the way and embrace new ways of working