Entrepreneurial Tax Director

Entrepreneurial Tax Director- Scotland

Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen

Competitive Salary + Benefits

As an Entrepreneurial Tax Director, you will be a key part of our Scotland Tax Team and will work closely with our teams across the country. You will be joining an experienced and well-respected tax service line where you will be responsible for working closely with our Entrepreneurial Tax Partner to drive forward the success of the team.

For this position, we are keen to speak with candidates that have a strong reputation in their local market and are well connected across Scotland. You will have a broad range of tax experience dealing with owner managed businesses and will be operating at a senior level within your current position.

This is a unique opportunity to help develop our offering within this space and shape your position to suit your career goals. You will be supported by a market leading wider tax team and will be joining at a time of high growth and opportunity within Azets.

• Helping to manage our existing tax advisory specialists and shape their careers in the future.
• Assisting in work covering transaction and entrepreneurial tax areas. Specialist areas include tax structuring, pre-sale planning for owner managed businesses/corporate groups, shareholder exits, share based incentives; as well as restructures and demergers.
• Providing deal support for our Corporate Finance function including review of legal agreements and offering alternative deal structures/views where applicable.
• Dealing with ad-hoc queries from our other service lines including Audit, Accounts & Business Advisory, Corporate Finance & Tax.
• Providing Tax due diligence support for small OMBs up to Larger Corporates, where necessary.
• Sharing knowledge across the wider tax team and engaging with staff at all levels to develop their tax knowledge and support their work.
• Getting involved in marketing activities such as writing topical articles for publication both internally and externally to develop the profile of Azets’ Entrepreneurial Tax offering.
• Developing client relationships and winning work from our existing client base and new prospects.
• Growing our Entrepreneurial Tax offering to contribute to the success of this specialist area.
• Working as a key part of our National UK Tax Knowledge Hubs.

• Experience in tax structuring/pre-sale planning for owner managed businesses and corporate groups (including tax structuring, pre-sale planning for owner managed businesses/corporate groups, shareholder exits, share based incentives; as well as restructures and demergers).
• Strong knowledge of current HMRC practices regarding tax planning and share incentive plans.
• Experience in Business Asset Disposals Relief, Substantial Shareholding Exemption and structuring businesses to ensure efficiency and to maximise available reliefs.
• Skilled in Share schemes – inclusive of EMIs and Growth Shares.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a team player.
• Ability to motivate a team.
• Proven client relationship skills.
• An understanding of the importance of networking.

The relationship we have with our colleagues is of the upmost importance to us as a business. Your voice is important to us. Attracting and retaining the right people who will deliver the level of service that our clients expect is key to both ours and your success.

Azets is an award-winning leading firm of Accountants and Business Advisors operating across the UK, Nordics and the USA. We are a family of over 6,500 employees and work across 100 offices in the UK alone. We have seen dramatic growth in recent years which has made us the 8th largest accountancy firm in the UK, and we are over the moon to have been awarded Accountancy Firm of the Year in the FD Excellence Survey 2020. As a result of this growth, we are now looking to invest in our skill sets even further!

We offer training and development opportunities to all employees. In nurturing talent from all backgrounds, this helps us to grow our own and bring out the best in people.

• The opportunity to work with our ET Partner to grow this service line in Scotland.
• Future progression and development as part of an ambitious firm.
• The opportunity to be a key positive influence on the next generation of tax advisors.
• Work with a diverse and thriving client base.
• Support from a UK-wide tax group.
• A competitive salary and benefits package

In addition...

• 33 days annual leave(31 for Students with study package and 38 for Partners) inc.bank holidays
• Birthday Day off
• Lead Incentive Scheme(applicable to up to and including Associate Director level)
  -We offer generous financial rewards for helping Azets to grow our new client portfolio.
• Reimbursement of one professional subscription each year
• Private Medical Cover(applicable to Director/Partner level)
• Enhanced Parental + Family leave- We want Azets to be a place where you can combine both a career and a family so those going on Maternity Leave can expect 100% pay for 3 months and 50% pay for the next 3 months, those going on Paternity Leave can expect 100% pay for 2 weeks (both subject to eligibility) and our Adoption Leave policy follows the same arrangements.
• Flexible Working- Azets understand that as with any family, we all work indifferent ways and need flexibility within our working day and therefore we operate a flexible working policy.
• Life Assurance- 4 times salary
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Employee Benefits Portal
• Access to our YuLife wellbeing app –Includes EAP, 24/7 GP access, retail vouchers and discounts, free digital will writing, discounted gym memberships etc.
• Pension
• Paid sick leave
• Career Coaching
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program- For you and your family.
• Dress for your day
• Extensive Learning & Development Opportunities and Study Support

Interested to hear more? Get in touch & our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch asap.

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below. 

Unfortunately we are unable to provide any form of visa sponsorship, so candidates must be a UK/Irish citizen or already possess a current UK Working Visa.