Tax Assistant Manager and Manager

**Job No**: HN_Tax_1022

**Job type**: Full time

**Location**: Hanoi

**Categories**: Tax

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**

**Overall Role Purpose**
- Handles the assignment smoothly with an assigned team;
- Manages and develops the assigned team members; and
- Manages a client portfolio and delivers services to clients as authorised by Tax Director/Partner.

**Main responsibilities**:
**_ Market_**
- Demonstrates an understanding of the full range of the firm's products, services and capabilities and takes an active role in cross selling.
- Builds an understanding of the potential for selling into clients.
- Seeks to participate in business development activities and contributes to sales pitches, for own team as well as the wider firm.

**_ Clients_**
- Builds a rapport with the individual client and develops a clear and detailed understanding of the business and client expectations.
- Meets clients’ demands, keeping them up to date with progress and engenders trust and respect.
- Deals with a wide range of technical issues and client situations.
- Provides intelligent and creative solutions to client tax issues both reactively and proactively.
- Writes high quality tax reports, professionally presented documents, requiring mínimal input from directors or partners.

**_ Deliverables_**
- Responsible for planning and performing tax consultancy/compliance assignments.
- Prepares and files ruling requests on behalf of our clients.
- Acts as a first point of contact on specific projects for any queries from the business.
- Demonstrates the ability to analyse potential solutions and make recommendations accordingly.
- Accurately interprets advice obtained from other specialists and questions where required.
- Presents solutions to increasingly complex technical issues.
- Demonstrates an awareness of technical risk through well supported research.

**_ Client take-on / risk management_**
- Has a sound awareness and adherence to the firm's risk management processes and procedures.
- Ensures compliance with internal procedures including the completion of take-on.
- Ensures bills are raised and costs are collected on a timely basis.
- Mitigates risk through review and involvement of senior people.

**_ Technical competence_**
- Demonstrates sufficient technical knowledge to supervise relevant areas of work.
- Seen as a reference point on particular technical issues.

**_ People_**
- Works effectively with all members of the team, building the confidence and respect of peers and subordinates.
- Appraises and mentors executives giving regular feedback, timely appraisals and provides development opportunities.
- Manages a team of staff on specific projects.
- Provide on the job training to staffs/seniors and clients’ executives.
- Actively seek opportunities to attend training courses to develop technical and personal skills.
- Demonstrates a clear appetite for self-development through the appraisal and personal development plan processes.
- Reviews work afterwards for learning points

**_ Operations and results_**
- Ensures bills are raised and collected on a timely basis.
- Manages work in progress to ensure recoverability targets can be met.
- Meets own financial target set.

**Qualifications/Skills**:

- Bachelor’s degree in law, taxation, accounting or finance;
- ACCA/CPTA/CPA of overseas organisation or MBA of overseas university or CIMA is preferable;
- Minimum of 4 years in a professional services;
- Fluency in English;
- Sound technical knowledge;
- Post qualification experience;
Related tax consultancy/ tax compliance experience; and
Managerial skills.

**Desired competencies**:

- **Initiative**:Demonstrates a thirst to understand how your role fits in and seeks opportunities by yourself to contribute beyond own role without being told by others.
- **Adaptability**: Shows agility and flexibility to easily adjust yourself into any changes in working situations and develop the understandings on the changes of situations.
- **Ownership**: Takes responsibility for own actions and learns from experience.
- **Business insight**: Applies a breadth and depth of knowledge and experience to generate practical business solutions.
- **Critical thinking**: Acts as a business partner to clients, probes to explore what really matters and helps them to develop their thinking.
- **Grow the business**: Consults with clients to gain a deeper understanding of their needs and implements the best solutions.
- **Builds business relationships**: Surface issues and concerns, ensures they are fully aired and resolved and supports others to do the same.
- **Develops, Inspires and Influences**: Sets others up to take new challenges and provides the right level of direction and support for them to succeed.
- **Result driven**: Provides clear direction on outcomes and collaborates with others to deliver them.

**Application Requirements**:

- Application and resume must be in English and attached with a recent photo, a