Indirect Tax Senior Manager/Director: Financial Services

Mazars is an engine for rapid and consistent 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.  

• To pay a key role in developing the financial services and insurance VAT practice at Mazars, working closely with the Head of Financial Services VAT and other members of the FS VAT team


• Delivering high quality technical advice, working with a diverse range of financial and insurance clients. 


• To be responsible for the scoping, delivery and billing of client work. You will also be required to be compliant with the firm's risk management processes for clients.


• Ensure that more junior staff are guided in researching and producing work that meets the firm's commitment to quality, whilst also supporting the Partner.


• Provide technical relevant advice on a range of Indirect Tax matters, supporting your decisions with appropriate knowledge of legislation, case law, and technical analysis. Whilst the role is mostly advisory, it will also encompass the provision of specialist technical support for financial services audits.


• Produce technical work which requires minimal review and conveys key points to clients and stakeholders in plain English.

Role & Responsibilities 

• Manage a portfolio of clients as the main point of contact for indirect tax, develop your portfolio to grow your base of profitable work.


• Develop a portfolio of businesses to target, using your business development skills to start new relationships and generate new work for indirect tax and other teams.


• Work with colleagues across the firm to contribute to proposals for new work and provide technical input to tax-wide projects.


• Contribute to the indirect tax leadership team with ideas on management, projects, strategy and focus.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• The position would suit a current senior manager with strong technical, business development and personal skills or an experienced manager seeking progression.


• The individual should have a strong interest in the technical side of VAT and should expect a high level of technical work commensurate with the role. 


• Substantial experience in VAT advisory work, ideally including experience in financial services or insurance.


• The individual must have strong client handling skills and the ability to develop good relationships with clients and other professionals.


• Must have excellent interpersonal, communication and writing skills.


• CTA or legally qualified.

About Mazars

Mazars is a leading international professional services firm delivering exceptional quality in audit, accounting, tax, financial advisory, outsourcing and consulting. 

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 Mazars, we celebrate individuality and thrive on teamwork. We give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.  

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self. To read more about our approach click here 

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.