CIS Assistant, In House, Manchester, £20k to £30k

This business is looking to recruit a CIS Tax Assistant. This purpose of this position is to help the Procurement Shared Service Centre and Finance Shared Service Centre Masterdata teams with supplier setup in respect of CIS scope assessments, Employment Status and PAYE. You will also be required to prepare and process CIS returns for business units within the FSSC Manchester environment, support the CIS Compliance Manager in managing CIS throughout the remainder of the business units and to conduct internal review work on specific transactions to ensure robust reporting in the HMRC CIS returns. To drive best practice within the FSSC processing environment, and to be a referral resource for query resolution regarding CIS, for FSSC processing teams.

Key responsibilities:
 Preparation of the CIS returns for review and authorisation by the CIS Compliance Manager
 Complete all analysis of data sources as required by Group Tax to deliver compliant tax object recording and reporting
 Support the delivery of a full range of CIS services in compliance with laws and regulations within timeframe across the wider Group
 Build relationships and interact with internal and external customers to provide excellent adherence to detail, compliance, and time management
 Adhere to CIS return submission and payment deadlines
 Aid in the CIS Compliance Manager in resolving ad-hoc HMRC queries i.e. verification issues, subcontractor enquiries
 Resolve ad-hoc queries from the FSSC processing teams (namely PTP) and other Group staff – these will likely be in relation to Scope, Materials/Labour splits, verifications, refunds
 Support Employment Status process of individual suppliers/subcontractors and tax status of labour agencies, to ensure appropriate treatment in the ledgers and feature on the CIS return or treatment as employees
 Review customary reports to check for end-to-end process compliance in transaction processing in relation to CIS
 CIS registration and de-registration processes
 Adhere to business operating procedures and the control environment put in place, and seek ways to drive efficiency and compliance within such processes
 Responsible for error correction in CIS returns
 Arrange for CIS tax payments to be processed and paid to HMRC through Oracle according to stipulated time frame working with Group Treasury, Record To Report and Payments team
 Scan and upload all printed reports, error corrections, completed checklists to tax storage area
 Action all tax related request and/or events within specified deadlines, ensuring that action and/or event information is interpreted correctly and reconciliation is complete, in order to deliver a high quality services and meet the overall objectives of the department
 Ensure all tax details/events are fully reconciled and any discrepancies investigated
 Monitoring and clearance of all tax entries/queries/exceptions and management queues
 Liaise with Group Tax team and other internal departments to ensure queries are responded to, ensuring that internal and external client satisfaction is maintained
 Undertake any necessary training associated with the duties of the post and participate in training and development procedures
 Other reasonable duties as and when required

Key Skills and Qualifications:
 Proven working experience within a tax role in a professional environment
 Previous experience with CIS scheme ideal