One of the world's most celebrated sports media groups has a unique opportunity to bring it's tax function tax in-house. Operating within a rapidly expanding and highly acquisitive organisation, this exciting new role will have a primary focus on tax planning and consulting in connection with day-to-day operations and strategic tax projects.
Global in it's scope, you will have ultimate responsibility for:
- Advising the European business units on tax matters impacting operations, including researching technical tax issues, developing solutions/positions to address any concerns or exposures, and drafting memoranda to support the developed positions.
- Reviewing proposed transactions to identify tax issues and work with group personnel to develop tax-efficient structures, consistent with the business objectives.
- Develop financial models to quantify tax costs and savings.
- Overseeing third party engagements to prepare local country tax return filings for the group's European entities, including working with the outside tax advisor on technical issues impacting the tax returns and ensuring the tax returns properly reflect tax strategies and transactional structures.