Tax Manager, Guildford

This role will provide support to the tax team on a wide variety of issues, ranging from group reporting, compliance and forecasting to group restructurings and advisory projects. The individual undertaking this role will work closely with the Group Tax Manager and Head of Group Tax and to ensure the smooth running of the tax department.

This role does not include responsibility for the preparation of the UK corporation tax returns or tax balances and disclosures for individual UK subsidiary accounts.

Key Responsibilities

Compliance and reporting

Day to day responsibility for Group tax reporting under IFRS, including year-end and half-year reporting and liaising with Group Finance regarding tax accounting queries
Regular forecasting of the Group’s effective tax rate and cash tax position
Management of the tax aspects of treasury matters, including implementation of internal dividend policy, dealing with withholding tax matters and maintenance of a summary debt map for the Group
Providing input in relation to tax risk management matters, including maintenance of tax compliance summaries for major overseas jurisdictions
Overseeing compliance with the UK Senior Accounting Officer regime including the review of documentation and controls across all UK taxes
Working with the Tax & Finance Accountant and operating companies to ensure compliance with the UK patent box and research and development tax regimes
Dealing with HMRC queries and correspondence (with support from the UK Tax Accountant)
Reviewing the CFC position of certain overseas companies
Review and monitoring of the Group’s position under the worldwide debt cap / Corporate Interest Restriction legislation
Managing the Group’s country by country reporting compliance
Dealing with the VAT partial exemption calculation for head office companies, and ad hoc UK VAT and employment taxes queries
Planning and advisory

Working with the Head of Group Tax and Group Tax Manager on Group projects. This may include:

Reviewing transfer pricing outcomes and preparing / updating transfer pricing documentation eg group masterfile
Business restructuring and divestments
For more information please contact Debbie Hills