Transfer Pricing Assistant Manager - Flexible working

Simpson Booth are recruiting a Transfer Pricing Assistant Manager for a leading professional Services Firm based in Birmingham.

This role can be full time or part time and flexible working arrangements will be considered which can include; annualised hours, early or late starts, shorter working days.

Role and Responsibilities

• Assisting with maintaining a portfolio of clients and taking responsibility for ensuring their transfer pricing documentation is prepared to a high standard and on a timely basis, finalised and submitted to the client within agreed deadlines.
• Work with the local office teams nationally and internationally and/or the client directly to understand the requirements at the start of each documentation cycle and provide instructions to the transfer pricing documentation preparers.
• Review the draft transfer pricing documentation produced to ensure correct treatment of intra-group transactions and determine whether further information is required.
• Liaise with the client to obtain additional information if required, feeding back to the transfer pricing documentation preparers to enable them to provide an updated draft transfer pricing documentation for subsequent review.
• Identify and resolve technical issues, preparing technical analysis and involving specialists as appropriate to prepare or review analysis.
• Deliver a high quality, technically accurate final draft transfer pricing documentation, ready for final review by your manager or senior manager and sending to the client.
• Reviewing benchmarking studies to ensure best practice process has been followed and a robust consistent deliverable has been prepared; ensure that the database of historic benchmarking studies is maintained; assist colleagues in local office teams, identify historic searches or plan new benchmarking studies.
• Review industry analysis, making sure these are prepared on a consistent basis using best practice.
• Provide advice and support to the local office team and/or client, as requested.
• Work with Project Administrators to ensure client administration and risk procedures are completed appropriately.
• Identify opportunities for additional services that the client may need and liaise with subject specialists.

Skills and Experience

• Experience of the preparation of transfer pricing documentation.
• Ability to identify and resolve technical issues, or escalate as appropriate.
• Awareness (experience preferred) of transfer pricing documentation requirements in the UK and how they vary globally.
• Strong interpersonal skills are required in addition to strong oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent team work, prioritisation and organisational skills are required.
• Language skills are a preference but not essential.

Qualifications

ATT / CTA / ACA / CIMA /ACCA or qualified through experience.