Tax Manager - In-house Opportunity

A brilliant opportunity has arisen for a qualified ACA/CTA to make their first move in-house. You will reporting to the Tax Director Europe & Asia-Pacific, and your be instrumental in managing an outsourced compliance process along with supporting the Director with key advisory projects.

The ideal candidate will be flexible and willing to work outside of one’s comfort zone, have strong technical skills and the ability to make sound commercial judgement.

This is ideal for a person who have trained in Tax and have gained strong Tax Compliance skills in the UK. This role, will then offer you the opportunity to oversee mutiple counteries and gain exposure to different tax legalisation, in a review/risk management capacity.

You will liaise with outsourced local compliance providers and monitor deadlines for direct tax filings to ensure timely and accurate preparation and filing of local and national direct tax filings;

Manage and plan local tax compliance issues in larger territories to mitigate cash tax costs eg optimizing tax groupings, use of on-account payments;

Review of project work and locations in year for possible PE exposures;

Work with our external compliance providers to prepare annual Group tax provision calculations for all assigned territories;

Assist with US parent company’s Country by Country filing for all assigned territories;

Transfer Pricing – liaise with our primary TP advisers and local territory advisers to support and co-ordinate their work on preparing our annual TP documentation.

From an advisory capacity, the firm is incredibly happy to allow you to learn on the job. You need to be comfortable in being proactive, invovling yourself in technical areas you have not covered before and just getting involved.

Some example of projects would be:
Work with the Global Mobility and Payroll teams to review proposed client project scopes, locations and entities to identify possible PE and payroll exposure risks;

Assist with ad-hoc queries and planning around equity compensation for MDs;
Identify withholding tax and other exposures on cross-border projects and develop proposals for structuring projects to mitigate exposures;

For a person with in-house aspirations, this role will expose you to multiple taxes & locations and is incredibly fluid and therefore unlike many in-house role no day is the same. On that basis putting yourself outside your comfort zone is imperative.

Get in touch, if you woud like more information.