Regional Tax Director - EMEA, FTSE 50

A Global FTSE 50 company are looking to hire an EMEA Regional Tax Director to join their Head office tax team based in Greater London. The Group wishes to design a more effective and efficient tax function capable of adapting to an increasingly challenging, connected and digital environment. Responsibility for tax returns and statutory accounts, which has previously been predominantly run on a de-centralised basis with local countries taking individual responsibility, will be centralised going forward. This role will be responsible for this activity for Europe, working with internal finance colleagues (mainly country finance controllers and the regional finance leadership team) and an external outsource provider. The role will also require close working relationships with other stakeholders across the Group, including Group Tax, Group Finance, and other colleagues across the region.

Responsibilities:

* Ensure tax return and statutory accounts filings are up to date, improve the consistency of and control over tax compliance processes and risks, and mitigate any potential tax compliance failures
* Ensuring information and documentation is appropriately available if and when tax audits arise, and leading the defence of such audits
* Focus on how the Group is responding to the digitisation of tax authorities, focusing on bolstering tax data and analytics capabilities to ensure readiness for future audit challenges
* Participate in and contribute to activities relevant to business and tax planning and structuring from a regional perspective
* Principal and critical responsibility in its first year will be ensuring the timely and effective transition of the existing statutory accounts and tax return set-up to the new model

Background:

* Degree level qualification
* Experience gained in Big 4/Tier A accountancy firm or Blue Chip in-house tax department
* Professional accounting and tax qualification
* Experience working across a number of different countries in the EMEA region
* Experience of working with an organisation with a large offshore processing/finance centre capability

For further information, please contact Phil Smyth