Indirect Tax Senior Manager

Location: London, UK

Contract: Full time, Permanent

Team: Indirect Tax

Blick Rothenberg is a leading tax, accountancy, and business advisory firm founded on personal integrity and technical expertise. Our partner-led approach ensures clients receive excellent service from high-quality teams who combine skill with integrity. We take the time to understand our clients’ businesses and invest in long-term relationships to provide the best possible service.

To bring this ethos to life, we have articulated our approach through our values: Collaboration, Authenticity, Respect, and being Dynamic. You can read more about our values here.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience as a VAT adviser, with the ability to provide pragmatic and technically robust advice.
• Strong all-round VAT experience; specific sector experience is not essential.
• Commercially minded and client focused, with experience working across a diverse client base ranging from large multinationals to entrepreneurial businesses.
• Confident leading, coaching and developing more junior team members within a collaborative environment.
• Proven ability to develop strong relationships with colleagues across other service lines.
• Experience identifying business development opportunities and contributing to the growth of an indirect tax practice.
• Experience taking responsibility for and managing a portfolio of existing clients.
• Experience leading engagements, managing risk and ensuring technical quality and excellent client service.
• CTA qualified or equivalent professional qualification.

What You’ll Do

VAT Advisory & Client Relationships

• Lead the delivery of high-quality VAT advisory services across a broad client base, with support from Partners and Directors where needed.
• Deliver technically excellent advice while providing pragmatic and empathetic outcomes for clients.
• Take ownership of existing clients, building trusted relationships and acting as their day-to-day senior contact.

Business Development & Growth

• Identify business development opportunities, shape proposals and convert leads to help grow the indirect tax practice.
• Build strong relationships across other service lines to deliver joined-up solutions and maximise cross-service opportunities for clients.
• Apply sound commercial judgement and broad business thinking while proactively managing risk and delivering excellent client service.

Leadership & Team Development

• Develop more junior team members, supporting their performance, wellbeing and progression.
• Ensure work across the team is completed to the highest standard.
• Work closely with Partners and Directors to shape strategy, support national initiatives and help steer the future direction of the VAT team.

Join our fast-growing London VAT team and play an important role in its continued growth and success. Working with a diverse client base, from large multinationals to entrepreneurial businesses, you’ll provide high-quality VAT advice, build trusted client relationships and work closely with colleagues across the wider business. As a Senior Manager, you’ll also have the opportunity to develop our people, contribute to business development and help shape the future direction of the team.

“We are building a market-leading VAT advisory team with a strong focus on collaboration, technical quality and exceptional client service. This is a great opportunity for an experienced VAT adviser to join our leadership team and help shape the next stage of our growth.”

Get a real insight into life at Blick Rothenberg — hear from our teams, see how we work together, and discover what makes our culture unique. See more – Our Culture – Blick Rothenberg

Inclusion and Diversity

Let’s BRselves

We are committed to

• Celebrating individuality and recognising the power of diverse perspectives
• Providing equitable opportunities for growth and success
• Holding ourselves accountable for making meaningful change together

We are a Disability Confident committed employer. Learn more about our Inclusion and Diversity approach here.

Blick Rothenberg is part of Azets, an award-winning firm of accountants and business advisors operating across the UK, Nordics, and the USA. Azets is a family of over 6,500 employees and has experienced significant growth in recent years, making it the 9th largest accountancy firm in the UK.

What’s in it for you?

We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all rules. Instead, we have BRighter Working, a flexible framework that helps our people work in ways that create the best experience for them and their teams, while continuing to deliver outstanding service to our clients.

• Hybrid working: Teams collaborate across multiple locations — BR offices, client sites, home, or elsewhere.
• Smarter working: Find simpler, more efficient ways to deliver services, supported by tech or process improvements.
• Flexible working: Temporary or permanent adjustments to your working pattern, beyond the standard contract.

Our Benefits at a Glance

• Pension: Looking after your future self when it’s time to step back and relax.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays: Time to focus on you.
• Financial security: Life assurance, free mortgage advice, financial coaching.
• Lifestyle perks: Employee discount platform, holiday trading, cycle-to-work scheme, home & tech purchase scheme, electric vehicle leasing, season ticket loan.
• Additional cover options: Critical illness cover, travel insurance, dental insurance, health assessments.
• Giving back: Charitable donations via payroll.