Tax Manager

Tax Manager with three to five years of corporate tax experience with some/all of this time ideally spent in the Big 4. Birmingham & London, £70,000 to £80,000 + LTIPS + Bonus + Commission.

Alexander Daniels have been engaged by a leading global business advisory and accounting firm to help them recruit a Tax Manager. Our client has a large team of BIG 4 professionals and serve thousands of global clients throughout Europe, Americas and Asia Pacific regions. Due to continued growth in the UK they are looking to quickly assemble a high-quality team of tax professionals to grow the tax business and provide clients with an exceptional and differentiated serviceOur client provides their clients with a unique combination of integrity, flexibility, creative solutions, and deep tax technical expertise. Many of their clients are global, market leading, publicly held companies, while others are privately held, early stage, or venture-backed emerging businesses. My client places a high value on a culture of continued learning, where teamwork is encouraged, and professional excellence is rewarded.Overview of role:This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual who is driven, entrepreneurial and constantly looking to challenge the status quo around the UK tax services industry. You will be involved in all aspects of UK corporate tax (reporting, compliance, governance and advisory) and will have direct interaction with both our clients and senior members of the UK tax team in order to deliver these services.Client service deliveryTax reporting:

• You will be involved in the delivery of UK Tax reporting services to our diverse client base, which includes the following:
• UK publicly listed companies.
• US headquartered multinationals (including US listed groups).
• UK privately owned and private equity backed groups.

The Tax reporting work will vary but is likely to include the following:

• Preparation of UK entity only tax numbers in accordance with IFRS or UK GAAP.
• Preparation of UK group tax numbers, likely to involve the incorporation of tax numbers for non-UK subsidiaries, GAAP-to GAAP adjustments (e.g. US GAAP to IFRS) and consolidation adjustments.
• Advising on client's tax reporting processes.
• Advising on the tax aspects of GAAP conversion projects.
• Advising on the tax reporting (and other) aspects of IPO readiness.

UK corporation tax compliance:

• You will be involved in the preparation and submission of UK corporation tax returns for clients. This will involve you leading the day-to-day interaction with clients to obtain all the information required to complete and file their returns in a timely manner. Whilst a formalised compliance process is in place, you will have a good degree of autonomy to manage the process in your own way, albeit with a focus on ensuring that our tax compliance offering is high quality, efficient and cost effective for our clients.

Tax governance

• You will be involved in the delivery of our tax governance proposition to clients, advising on tax strategy, risk management and controls.

Tax advisory

• You will be involved in tax advisory work likely to include the following:
• Ad hoc corporate tax advisory work originating from compliance engagements - e.g. loss planning and utilisation, tax implications of trade and asset transfers, interest deductibility.
• Cash tax modelling exercises.
• Group simplification exercises.
• Tax due diligence for client transactions.
• Tax structuring for client transactions.

Business development

• As my client is looking to rapidly expand in the UK, there will be plenty of opportunity to get involved in business development activities, including the following:
• Assisting with the origination of tax opportunities on new and existing clients, drafting of proposals and involvement in the sales process (e.g. meetings, pitches, etc.).

Skills, Knowledge and Competencies:

• Experience of UK tax reporting processes.
• Knowledge of tax reporting IFRS and UK GAAP; high level understanding of US GAAP desired but not essential.
• Experience of the UK tax return preparation process, and good technical understanding with common tax adjusting items such as interest deductibility, hybrid mismatches, loss utilization etc.
• Experience of responding to and managing HMRC tax enquiries.
• Knowledge / an appreciation of cross-border tax matters would be highly desirable, e.g. transfer pricing, Pillar 2, country by country reporting etc.
• Experienced with using Microsoft Excel and tax software packages.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively present information and appropriately respond to questions from clients and team members.
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to multi-task, and work under deadlines.
• Excellent analytical, supervisory, organizational, and written and verbal communication skills are necessary.
• Demonstrated ability to be accountable for independently completing assignments.
• Other key characteristics: the ideal candidate must demonstrate integrity and accountability, always remaining flexible, adaptable.

Qualifications:

• Three to five years of corporate tax experience with some/all of this time ideally spent in the Big 4.
• Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA) required; additional tax qualification (e.g. CTA) strongly desired.

What is on offer for the successful Tax Manager?

• Salary is dependent on experience and will range from £70k to £80k
• LTIPS
• Bonus
• Commission
• Pension
• 25 days holidays + bank holidays
• Flexible working / Hybrid

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