Director Tax - Accounting, & Audit Professionals, Portfolio

Job Description  

We're seeking an experienced and results-driven Director to drive profitable growth of our TAAP (Tax, Accounting, & Audit Professionals) portfolio in the AEM region, with a focus on ANZ. The successful candidate will be responsible for bringing the full value of our portfolio propositions to customers, mobilising and focusing our go-to-market (GTM) strategy to execute around growth priorities and representing the voice of our customers. Additionally, they will provide go-to-market expertise in support of delivering relevant sales targets.

Key Responsibilities 

In this opportunity as a Director -Tax, Accounting, & Audit Professionals (TAAP) - Portfolio, you will be responsible for:

• Acting as the Segment Business Lead (CEO) for the TAAP segment in AEM.
• Achieving gross and net sales, revenue, and EBITDA targets for the AEM TAAP segment.
• Undertaking market opportunity analysis and working with sales and marketing to translate insights into go-to-market priorities and execution plans.
• Building a yearly growth strategy that defines key priorities and focus areas for organic development, acquisitions, partnerships, and cross-border leverage.
• Working closely with Product Management, Technology, Strategy, and Product Marketing teams to develop, maintain, and publish product roadmaps.
• Developing business cases for specific investments to drive new or enhanced propositions.
• Providing thought leadership for the TAAP segment, working closely with marketing teams to execute it.
• Owning the TAAP segment portfolio’s pricing strategy, go-to-market strategy, key areas of focus, and launch and post-launch activities.
• Driving innovation and differentiation across the TAAP segment to address current and future client needs.
• Working closely with other AEM segment leads to support the broader needs of customers in the AEM region.
• Guiding the TAAP segment team in a consistent practice and methodology for understanding customer requirements and developing solutions, so that strong proposals can differentiate us from competitors.
• Assisting in key retention situations by bringing relevant domain expertise, as agreed with the appropriate stakeholders.
• Acting as an advocate for customer needs within the business, and driving a challenger mindset with products and propositions to deliver outcomes that exceed customer expectations.
• Engaging regularly with key customers and at external events.
• Leading, coaching, and developing a high-performing team.
• Fostering an inclusive, values-led culture with strong collaboration across regions and functions.

Key Deliverables

• Deliver annual financial performance for the portfolio - gross sales, retention, price and revenue achievement for TAAP portfolio
• Build and nurture a diverse, collaborative, high performing and engaged talent base to meet our diverse customer needs across the region
• Set segment commercial direction for Sales and Marketing - provide the sales and marketing teams with an understanding of where to sell, what to sell, how to sell and specific products per segment to focus
• Drive growth through acquisitions, new offerings and partnerships in the TAAP segment
• Champion and embed an innovation, simplification, agile, digital and non-bureaucratic mindset across the region.
• Build and maintain highly collaborative and mutually supportive relationships with colleagues across all functions and regions.
  
   

Required Qualifications

You are an ideal fit for the Director -Tax, Accounting, & Audit Professionals (TAAP) - Portfolio role if your experience includes:

• 10+ years of experience in the tax or accounting industry
• Conflict resolution and problem-solving skills that lead to win-win outcomes
• Experience developing and executing commercial or go-to-market strategies
• An outside-in focus and outstanding end-customer relationship skills
• Skill in relentlessly prioritizing to drive customer market value while balancing the input of all stakeholders
• Skill in bringing a global value proposition into the region with localization
• Ability to build strong relationships with sales, product, and marketing leads, as well as stakeholder management and persuasion, and the ability to tailor strategies to a wide range of audiences
• Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, and retain a high-performing team

Preferred Qualifications

• Accounting and/or tax domain expertise; experience managing a range of skill sets and functional competencies
• Familiarity with the products or similar platforms in lieu of direct product knowledge
• AI and digital fluency

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What’s in it For You?

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• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
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