Senior Tax Manager

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Manager - Tax you be responsible for technical accounting, statutory reporting, tax compliance and regulatory governance
• Within the role provides specialist expertise on accounting standards and tax matters while ensuring compliance with all external reporting obligations
• Oversee direct and indirect tax compliance, including tax calculations, returns and disclosures
• Manage relationships with external tax advisers and authorities, group tax teams
• Support tax risk management and tax planning activities and keep up to date with local tax legislation
• Dealing with compliance across multiple tax areas, including VAT , PAYE , CT , WHT , Transfer Pricing
• Act as the technical accounting lead for the organisation
• Determine accounting treatment for complex and non-routine transactions
• Prepare technical accounting papers and accounting policy guidance
• Monitor developments in IFRS , local GAAP and regulatory requirements
• Lead the preparation of statutory financial statements and coordinate annual reporting requirements across legal entities
• Manage external audit deliverables and technical accounting discussions
• Ensure compliance with all statutory filing obligations
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and financial reporting requirements
• Maintain accounting policy documentation and governance frameworks
• Support control reviews relating to statutory reporting and taxation
• Assess and mitigate accounting and tax risks
• Support acquisitions, restructurings and other corporate transactions
• Lead implementation of new accounting standards and reporting requirements
• Provide technical input into finance transformation initiatives

What Success Looks Like

• Create corporation Tax returns filed within statutory deadlines
• Consolidated group position of all tax filing deadlines across the group & communicated to relevant stakeholders
• Establish IFRS risk & compliance register

Qualifications

• Ideally experience of working within a large multi-entity or group environment
• Strong technical accounting expertise
• Qualified accountant (ACA preferred, ACCA acceptable)
• Strong understanding of IFRS and regulatory reporting requirements
• Ability to interpret complex technical matters and communicate clearly
• Significant corporate tax and indirect tax experience
• Experience managing statutory reporting and audits