Interim Corporate Tax Business Partner in Birmingham

Contract Type: Six month Fixed-term Contract, Full-time

Department: Tax, BBC Group Finance

Location: Office base can be Birmingham, Cardiff, London or Salford – Hybrid

Proposed Salary Range: £90,000 - £93,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

Purpose of the Role

We’re now seeking a Corporate Tax Business Partner to join the BBC. This role sits in Group Tax reporting to the Group Tax Director. Join the BBC Tax team and shape the financial integrity of one of the world’s most respected public service organisations. You’ll work in a uniquely varied and intellectually stimulating environment, partnering with teams across the BBC to support innovative content, global operations and complex commercial activity.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Provide advice relating to corporate tax issues, including updates and recommendations to the businesses on new legislation relevant to the management of corporate tax.
• Support the Group with HMRC enquiries as well as international tax audits in jurisdictions overseas.
• Manage and advise on Group Transfer Pricing documentation, Country by Country reporting (CBCR), and Pillar II compliance.
• Support and review quarter-end and year-end tax provisions and balances at Group level, including deferred tax.
• Manage the full technical review and authorisation of corporate tax returns for the Public Service with oversight of global tax compliance.
• Provision of direct tax input to wider initiatives including Senior Accounting Officer requirements.
• Provide proactive and pragmatic direct tax input on new initiatives, business line expansion and strategic plans.

Essential Criteria:

• Professional accounting and/or tax qualification ACA, CTA or equivalent.
• Keeping abreast of UK direct tax law and its application in the media sector.
• In-house experience.
• The ability to demonstrate strategic thinking.
• Experience of tax controversy in either the UK or overseas.

Desirable:

• Experience of working with cross-border organisations and managing global tax risks.
• Experience of UK corporate tax compliance and group tax reporting under IFRS, FRS101 and FRS 102.
• Understanding appropriate processes and controls required in a global organisation, for the management of direct taxes.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise effectively to meet deadlines.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy.

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks.

We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants.

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

You belong. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email.