• Proactively identify and pursue new business opportunities within the local mobility tax advisory space, with a particular focus on high-growth businesses and SMEs.
• Build and maintain a strong external network of referrers, intermediaries, and clients, acting as a visible and credible ambassador for the practice in the market.
• Lead the preparation and delivery of proposals and pitches, working collaboratively across service lines to bring a compelling, multi-disciplinary offering to clients.
• Develop and leverage knowledge of the broader tax landscape (including employment taxes, share schemes, corporate tax, and international mobility considerations) to identify cross-selling opportunities and deliver genuinely integrated solutions.
• Contribute to the development and execution of the practice's go-to-market strategy, identifying new sectors, segments, and service propositions.
• Monitor market trends and legislative developments, translating these into commercial opportunities for the practice.

2.    Client Engagement & Delivery Leadership

• Lead and oversee the delivery of complex, high-quality mobility tax engagements from inception to completion, ensuring adherence to quality, risk management, and professional standards.
• Lead and oversee delivery of cross-border mobility tax, immigration and social security projects and advice leveraging the Deloitte global network.
• Act as the primary point of contact for key clients, building trusted adviser relationships at senior levels within client organisations.
• Manage engagement economics, including budgeting, billing, WIP management, and recovery, ensuring the commercial performance of engagements is optimised.
• Oversee and review technical work product produced by the engagement team, ensuring accuracy, quality, and alignment with client objectives and applicable legislation.
• Lead on complex technical matters, providing authoritative advice across all aspects of local mobility tax, including employer compliance, shadow payrolls, tax equalisation, social security, business traveller risk, and related areas.
• Effectively manage and mitigate engagement risk, escalating appropriately and maintaining robust documentation and file management.

3.     Multi-Disciplinary Tax Leadership

• Collaborate effectively with colleagues across other tax disciplines (including corporate tax, employment tax, share schemes, transfer pricing, and indirect tax) to structure and deliver integrated tax solutions.
• Act as a connector within the practice, identifying when client situations warrant multi-service line involvement and facilitating seamless introduction and collaboration.
• Bring commercial creativity and technical rigour to complex, often ambiguous client problems, drawing on a broad understanding of the tax landscape.

4.      People Development & Talent Management

• Actively coach, mentor, and support the development of junior team members (including Senior Managers, Managers, and Assistants), with a particular focus on progressing high-potential individuals towards Associate Director and Director roles.
• Provide timely, constructive, and honest feedback to team members, both informally day-to-day and formally through appraisal processes.
• Act as a role model for our values, professional standards, and inclusive behaviours.
• Participate in recruitment activity for the practice, contributing to the identification and attraction of talent at all levels.
• Support the wider people strategy of the practice, including initiatives relating to wellbeing, inclusion, and professional development.

5.      Internal Leadership & Practice Development

• Contribute to the leadership and strategic development of the local mobility tax advisory practice, playing an active role in team meetings, planning activities, and the ongoing evolution of our service offering.
• Lead or contribute to internal knowledge-sharing initiatives, including technical training, thought leadership, and knowledge management.
• Support the firm's risk management and quality processes, acting as a reviewing director on engagements where appropriate.
• Drive innovation with an entrepreneurial, continuous improvement mindset, challenging the status quo and leading positive change within the practice

Connect to your skills and professional experience

As a Director and a leader in our business, your experience should demonstrate a proven track record in:

• Strategically planning and efficiently delivering change initiatives within large scale organisations, with a deep understanding of partnership nuances and the ability to activate change at pace, anticipate challenges, and develop pragmatic solutions.
• Building, nurturing, and leveraging strategic stakeholder relationships at senior levels within organisations, fostering trust and collaborative partnerships essential for successful change.
• Leading and orchestrating multi-disciplinary teams in fast-paced project environments, showing personal resilience and strategic oversight, and the capacity to drive complex technology-enabled initiatives to successful completion.
• An innovative mindset combined with a keen interest in current thinking around transformation, change management, and disruptive technologies and business models that are shaping the industry.

Essential Technical Skills & Knowledge

• Deep technical knowledge of UK (and ideally international) mobility tax, including income tax, social security, employer compliance obligations, and tax equalisation / protection approaches.
• Strong track record of delivering international cross border mobility tax projects and advice
• Strong understanding of the broader employment tax and/or corporate tax landscape, enabling credible multi-disciplinary client advisory conversations.
• Experience advising high-growth companies and/or SMEs on their workforce mobility and tax obligations, including scale-up considerations.
• Familiarity with relevant HMRC practice, employment status considerations, share-based remuneration, and business traveller frameworks.
• Innovative continuous improvement mindset

Preferred Qualifications

• ACA, CTA, ATT or equivalent professional qualification (or equivalent experience).
• Relevant post-qualification experience at Director level or above in a professional services

Essential Competencies & Personal Attributes

Connect to your service line - Tax

Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but thats exactly what youll find at Deloitte. Were constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of whats possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.

Our comprehensive range of services encompasses everything from the completion of tax returns (corporation tax self-assessment) to complex consultancy assignments and strategic tax planning. We advise on corporate and general tax, international M&A, stamp tax, cross-border transfer pricing, reorganisations and reconstructions, and competent authority negotiations. 

Personal independence 

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request. 

Connect with your colleagues 

We advise some of the largest, most prestigious clients in the world, so the work is really challenging and exciting. We also have a fantastic team of smart, driven people, and a supportive, entrepreneurial culture where everyones encouraged to be bold, creative, and ambitious 

-Oliver, Tax

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At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. Thats why well support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, youll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. Youll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role. 

Our commitment to you 

Making an impact is more than just what we do: its why were here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.  

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So were nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure well take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because its only when youre comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for. 

Your expertise is our capability, so well make sure it never stops growing. Whether its from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, youll learn every day. Through world-class development, youll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, youll learn how to lead. 

Connect to your next step 

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and youll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. Youll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And youll never stop growing, whatever your level. 

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers