About This Role
This Senior Tax Manager / Tax Manager role is for an experienced professional to oversee client engagements, guide the tax team, and deliver practical tax advice. The position combines technical review, client relationship management, and team leadership, working closely with firm leadership to maintain quality, improve service delivery, and identify opportunities for practice development.
Responsibilities
- Manage client engagements: Oversee an assigned portfolio of tax clients, ensuring accurate work, timely completion, and compliance with applicable requirements
- Review tax assignments: Review tax computations, returns, supporting schedules, tax estimates, and revisions; identify technical issues and ensure appropriate research, documentation, and resolution
- Provide tax advice: Understand clients
- Support tax reporting: Review tax provisions and related reporting schedules where included within the engagement scope
- Coordinate LHDN matters: Oversee the preparation of responses and supporting documentation for tax enquiries and audits, coordinating formal client representation through the firm
- Manage workflow and engagement performance: Allocate assignments, establish review milestones, and monitor deadlines, budgets, work in progress, billing, and collections; address resource constraints and scope changes promptly
- Lead and develop the team: Provide clear direction, technical coaching, and constructive feedback; use work reviews to develop staff capability and address performance or delivery concerns professionally
- Monitor technical developments: Keep abreast of relevant tax legislation, public rulings, and guidance, and assess their implications for clients
- Improve service delivery: Strengthen documentation, review procedures, and digital workflows to improve accuracy and efficiency
- Develop client relationships: Identify additional client needs, contribute to proposals, and collaborate with colleagues to deliver coordinated services
- Lead complex engagements and provide guidance on significant technical and client service issues (Senior Tax Manager)
- Manage key client relationships and take greater responsibility for advisory opportunities and practice development (Senior Tax Manager)
- Contribute to departmental planning, resource allocation, quality standards, and the development of future team leaders (Senior Tax Manager)
Requirements
- A degree in Accounting, Finance, or Taxation, or a recognised professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, ICAEW, MICPA, CPA Australia or equivalent
- Tax Manager: At least 5 years of relevant Malaysian tax experience, including supervising staff and reviewing tax assignments
- Senior Tax Manager: At least 8 years of relevant Malaysian tax experience, with demonstrated experience managing engagements, reviewing complex work and leading a team
