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We are currently recruiting for an experienced Tax Accountant for a 6 month fixed-term contract to provide specialist support to the business and ensure the European Region meets its tax reporting and compliance obligations.
Duties include;
- Build and develop effective relationships with relevant stakeholders across relevant the Tax function, wider finance team and the business.
- Support the accuracy, quality and timeliness of Regional tax reporting, working within the parameters of the regional tax governance framework.
- Recognised as a qualified tax or finance professional, who can apply professional concepts and theoretical knowledge acquired through specialised training or experience.
- Exercises independent judgement within defined parameters, and can adapt to complex business issues where in-depth analysis is required.
Job description:
- Support the accuracy and timeliness of legal entity tax reporting, compliance, and management analysis for the UK businesses.
- This includes responsibility for selected outputs related to the preparation and lodgement of relevant tax filing obligations, across nominated business units, for a broad range of taxes including:
- Corporate tax returns;
- Withholding taxes.
- Responsible for selected outputs associated with preparing and reviewing content across all Business Units relevant to other tax reporting obligations including:
- Tax accounting calculations;
- Preparation and review of tax notes within legal entity statutory accounts;
- Thin capitalisation / interest denial calculations.
- Support effective revenue authority liaison and timely and accurate delivery on information requests in relation to corporate tax compliance.
- Support the effective operation of tax systems within the region including OneSource Corporate Tax and Tax Reporting and Provision applications.
- Involvement in implementation of new legislation as it applies to the business.
- Assist with implementation of transfer pricing policies as they apply to the European business and monitoring of cross-border transactions.
- Involvement in tax planning including corporation interest restriction allocations, capital allowance claims, group relief and loss allocations.
- Support the effective operation of the company's Regional tax risk management framework including:
- Annual self-assurance exercise on Regional Tax Controls for specific business units.
- Maintaining Regional tax policies and procedures
- Support the annual exercise of reporting to HMRC on Senior Accounting Officer.
- Building relationships with key stakeholders to ensure a collaborative approach to the delivery of tax governance & compliance objectives
Candidate profile
- Broad subject matter knowledge with a focus on corporate tax accounting and compliance
- Prior experience in UK Tax and Finance and/or Accounting
- Previous experience in a tax reporting in a large and diverse listed organisation is highly regarded.
- Property development and/or construction industry experience highly regarded.
- Experience with OneSource and Oracle and/or similar tax / financial accounting system is highly regarded.
For more information, please contact Mo Hanslod at Goodman Masson.
In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.
