Tax Director/Senior Manager

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 300 staff. For over 65 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 300 professionals and 23 Partners in 5 locations: Athlone, Dublin, Roscommon, Castlebar and Waterford.  

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 40 Tax Professionals and 7 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 a strong performing Tax Director/Senior Manager as a visible and important leader to grow and develop our Tax Department and Tax Service offering in the West of Ireland.

Having recently merged with two practices in Castlebar, RBK want to develop the exciting opportunities within the existing client base and in the wider region by establishing a dedicated Tax Team on the ground (supported by our Athlone Tax Team and Head of Tax) and headed up by this new hire.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Take overall responsibility and leadership for the development of a new Tax Team based in Castlebar on a commercial basis, ensuring that a high level of service and added value is provided – supported by and reporting into our Athlone Tax Team/Head of Tax
• 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 recruitment, 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 and ideally experience with the SME market
• 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
• Exposure to an SME client base would be an advantage
•  As this role involves building and developing a tax team in Castlebar a strong presence on the ground in the Castlebar office will be required
• 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 train and develop a tax 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
• Pension and life assurance
• Professional subscriptions
• Corporate discounts
• Social club
• Employee incentive schemes