Tax Senior Manager

About You and Your Career

• Are you currently pigeon holed in your Tax Career?
• Are you tired of only seeing one piece of the puzzle and want to broaden your experience?
• Would you relish the challenge of developing dynamic solutions for a diverse client base across all tax heads?
• Do you want to develop your Tax career by working closely with and learning from our experienced Tax Partners and Directors?
• Do you want to work with a people first firm, who believe in a strong work / life balance?

Why Choose RBK?

• As a people first firm, we work as One United Thriving Team, living our Values by:
• Putting People First and consistently treat everyone fairly, with respect integrity and trust.  
• Making A Positive Difference by giving back to our clients and communities.
• Being In It Together to achieve a clear end goal by collaborating and having each other’s back.
• Keeping it Clear And Concise to avoid confusion and bring clarity, purpose and prioritisation for everyone.
• Stepping In & Owning It With Excellence by taking responsibility for achieving better outcomes and results. 

About the Tax Team

Our specialist team of over 30 Tax Professionals and 4 Tax Partners provide expert compliance, consultancy and advisory services to a variety of corporate and personal clients domestically and internationally. We deliver dynamic solutions to our extensive client base on areas including;

• corporate restructures
• mergers and acquisitions
• succession and retirement planning
• inbound and outbound investment and relocation
• private clients - investment, wealth management and tax planning

Our thriving client base include multinational and domestic groups (Inbound and outbound) operating in diverse sectors including technology, med-tech, manufacturing, renewables, property and hospitality.

The Role

RBK is currently seeking to recruit strong performing Tax Senior Managers as visible and important leaders of our Tax Department.

Roles can be tailored based on the candidates experience and career development objectives – so whether you want to broaden your role to gain consultancy experience across all tax heads, continue to focus on compliance or retain/develop a niche focus on a specialist area, we are hiring.

Responsibilities

• Take overall responsibility and leadership for the ongoing development of the Tax Department on a commercial basis, ensuring that a high level of service and added value is provided.
• Instigate, develop and manage key client relationships with existing client portfolio.
• Have sufficiently broad and in-depth technical expertise to advise a diverse client portfolio comprising domestic and international groups, owner-managed businesses and high net-worth individuals.
• Be proactive in developing business opportunities.
• Direct responsibility for the management and development of a team of tax professionals. Have strong experience as a team leader, and be naturally teamwork orientated, capable of working across the management teams, functional specialist teams and administration teams in the Firm to engender the highest standards of professionalism.

Key Attributes

• Technical competence – have a broad technical knowledge and expertise across all tax heads.
• Commercially focused with financial and business acumen.
• Proven experience in business development initiatives.
• Possess a high degree of commercial awareness and be able to apply this to assignment delivery responsibilities.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills and to be capable of working successfully in a very interactive management and team structure.
• Management & Leadership Qualities – A high energy leader who has excellent abilities to motivate, empower and influence the team, peers and members of staff, making crucial decisions comfortably. 
• Flexible and adaptable.
• Overall ability to maintain an excellent disposition with staff and externally in the market. 

Requirements

• Membership of the Irish Taxation Institute.
• Top 10 firm experience would be desirable, but not essential.
• Ideally 3+ years post qualification experience in a management role in a tax practice or industry.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• A broad range of experience.
• An ability to manage a high performing team.
• Broad exposure to tax consultancy assignments would be desirable, but not essential.

What we offer

• Competitive compensation package with a defined career progression path.
• Flexible working arrangements – the ability to work at home, from the office, in Athlone, Dublin, Roscommon or Waterford.
• Pension and Life Assurance.
• Professional Subscriptions.
• Corporate Discounts.
• Social Club.
• Employee Incentive Schemes.

About Us

We are a PEOPLE FIRST Professional Services Firm, delivering dynamic solutions and joined up service, where our people, clients, communities and our business THRIVE! We are Ireland’s largest indigenous chartered accountancy and business advisory firm with over 250 staff. For over 60 years RBK has provided a wide range of tax, audit and accounting services to domestic and overseas businesses in Ireland. We have grown to become Ireland’s largest indigenous accountancy firm with over 250 professionals and 18 Partners in 4 locations: Athlone, Dublin, Roscommon and Waterford.