Tax Director

Our client is an audit firm looking at recruiting for a Tax Director. 

Duties inlcude:

• Provide strategic leadership and direction for the tax service line, ensuring alignment with the firm's overall business objectives, growth strategy, and client service standards.
• Oversee the delivery of all tax compliance and advisory services, ensuring the highest levels of technical excellence, quality assurance, and client satisfaction.
• Lead and develop the tax team, creating a culture of continuous learning, accountability, and high performance.
• Act as the principal point of contact and trusted advisor for key clients, providing strategic tax guidance on complex local and international matters.
• Maintain oversight of technically complex tax advisory projects and compliance engagements, ensuring risks are identified and managed appropriately.
• Monitor developments in local, EU and international tax legislation and assess their impact on clients, service offerings, and departmental strategy.
• Represent clients in discussions and negotiations with regulatory authorities and other stakeholders where required.
• Drive the growth of the tax practice by identifying new business opportunities, expanding existing client relationships, and developing new service offerings.
• Collaborate with Partners and Directors across the firm to identify cross-selling opportunities and provide integrated solutions to clients.
• Develop and implement departmental objectives, budgets, performance measures and resource plans to support sustainable growth and profitability.
• Monitor departmental financial performance, including revenue generation, utilisation, recoverability, budgeting and profitability.
• Lead client proposal processes, presentations, and business development meetings to secure new engagements.
• Represent the firm externally through industry events, conferences, seminars, webinars and professional associations.
• Contribute to the firm's thought leadership initiatives through technical publications, articles, training sessions and speaking engagements.
• Support the tax Partner in shaping and executing the long-term strategic vision for the tax team and the firm's wider advisory services.
• Promote innovation and continuous improvement within the department, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, service quality and client experience.

Requirements

• Have a minimum of five years of relevant tax experience, including significant experience in a senior leadership or management position.
• Strong technical knowledge of Maltese income tax legislation is essential, including but not limited to the tax payment and refund mechanism, fiscal unity, capital gains tax, notional interest deduction and double taxation relief.
• Extensive knowledge of international tax principles and developments is required, including ATAD, OECD Model Tax Convention, Pillar Two, transfer pricing considerations, Interest and Royalties Directive and Parent-Subsidiary Directive.
• Demonstrate strong technical expertise in complex tax advisory matters, cross-border transactions, tax structuring, compliance and dispute resolution.
• Demonstrate a strong commercial mindset with a proven track record in business development, client retention and revenue growth.
• Possess excellent leadership, people management and coaching skills, with experience developing and managing high-performing teams.
• Local experience is required

Education and Experience

• Be in possession of a professional qualification in Accountancy or Law.