Assistant Manager - Corporate tax

At Gallagher, we help clients face risk with confidence because we believe that when businesses are protected, they’re free to grow, lead, and innovate. You’ll be backed by our digital ecosystem: a client-centric suite of consulting tools making it easier for you to meet your clients where they want to be met. Advanced data and analytics providing a comprehensive overview of the risk landscape is at your fingertips. Here, you’re not just improving clients' risk profiles, you’re building trust. You’ll find a culture grounded in teamwork, guided by integrity, and fueled by a shared commitment to do the right thing. We value curiosity, celebrate new ideas, and empower you to take ownership of your career while making a meaningful impact for the businesses we serve.

We are seeking an Assistant Manager to join our Corporate Tax team. In this role, you will support all areas of our business concerning direct taxes, with a primary focus on UK corporation tax compliance, reporting, and advisory. You’ll play a crucial role in ensuring the company’s tax obligations are met efficiently and accurately, while providing strategic tax advice to support business objectives.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Manage our UK corporation tax compliance process, including reviewing all computations and returns, ensuring accurate and timely submission to HMRC.
• Calculate quarterly corporation tax payments due to HMRC and ensuring timely payment.
• Manage preparation of UK corporation tax provision for UKGAAP statutory accounts, this will involve managing and developing the relationship with the external tax audit team and our internal statutory accounting team.
• Prepare/review US GAAP quarterly reporting packs for the group’s US parent company.
• Responsibility for corporation tax balance sheet reconciliations within ERP system.
• Allocate work to team members in an efficient manner and ensure all deadlines and key priorities are met.
• Participate in training and development of junior members of the team.
• Participate in managing tax team’s relationship with HMRC.
• Involvement in maintaining strong tax governance, ensuring SOX requirements are fully met.
• Involvement in M&A due diligence projects for UK acquisitions, review data, prepare reports and assist legal counsel.
• Involvement in tax advisory projects including group restructuring and financing, adhoc queries from the business.

About You:

• CTA/CA/ACCA qualification.
• Strong technical knowledge of corporation tax is essential with a sound understanding of tax accounting principles.
• US GAAP knowledge is desirable but not essential.
• Practical experience applying up to date knowledge in either a Practice or Industry environment.
• Working knowledge of Thomson Reuters Onesource Corporation Tax.
• Excellent MS Excel skills (experience with MS PowerSuite, Alteryx or Tableau not essential but desired).
• Ability to manage and adhere to deadlines.
• Ability to keep technical knowledge updated.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Excellent communication skills in all formats.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.

Compensation and benefits:

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days.
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to.
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x.
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up.
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance.

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year.
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount.
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan.
• Critical illness cover.
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally.
• Season ticket loan.
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase.
• Emergency back-up family care.
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity:

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work. Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long‑term health conditions or disabilities. We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know. Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com. If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities. Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non‑conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.