Our client is a large international organisation with a significant presence in a number of European countries. The organisation is looking for an assistant tax manager to join their in-house tax team. The work will be predominantly UK corporate tax compliance together with tax accounting under UK GAAP and IFRS.
Working in a team of 3 and reporting to the UK tax manager your main responsibilities will be as follows:
• Corporation tax compliance work. This will include the management of the process of completing and submitting the corporation tax returns for the UK group. You will be expected to prepare some of the more complex returns.
• The preparation of the tax disclosures for inclusion within the financial statements.
• Acting as a technical resource for the department.
• Developing relationships with key finance staff across the UK businesses.
• Advising and supporting the UK business in relation to tax reporting using the UK Group’s newly integrated tax reporting system.
• Developing, maintaining and interrogating the tax forecasts and models for the Group’s UK business activities.
• Assisting the UK tax manager in providing preliminary advice on the tax implications of transactions contemplated by the Group’s businesses in the UK.
• Acting as the first point of contact for all employment tax related matters within the group including advising in respect of the UK Group’s PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA), P11D’s, the implementation of salary sacrifice initiatives, the tax/NIC treatment of certain payments and dealing with ad-hoc HMRC queries.
This role comes with great career progression prospects and will provide the necessary training and experience to enable the successful candidate to progress. Ideally you should be ACA/ICAS/CTA qualified with a good understanding of accounting issues and experience of dealing with large groups. Whilst employment tax experience is desirable it is likely that you are currently a corporate tax specialist looking to move into industry and happy to learn on the job. You should also be a strong communicator who is able to work well both independently and within a team.
Recruiter:
Georgiana Head Recruitment Ltd
Georgiana Head Recruitment Ltd is a recruitment consultancy that specialises in the Taxation Profession. We offer a bespoke service that is tailored to the needs of individual clients and candidates.
Our clients range from the Big 4 accountancy firms, the Top 20, niche tax boutiques, law firms and in-house tax departments. We deal with both direct and indirect taxes and all levels of tax staff from assistants through to Heads of Tax. We particularly specialise in the regions from the South Midlands up through the North of England and Scotland. However, we also do consultancy work for a selection of interesting roles in the South of England.
We are: Directors: Georgiana Head and Alison Tait - we both trained in tax and worked in the taxation profession before making the move into recruitment. Suzanne Wolfson - Suzanne is one of the most experienced tax recruiters in the North West of the UK. We feel we offer an unparalleled level of experience and knowledge of the regional tax market and have a first hand understanding of our clients and candidates needs. We only specialise in taxation recruitment.
