Head of Tax

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Direct Tax & Transfer Pricing to join the team. This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to take the lead and step up into their first people management role.

The role

You’ll be responsible for managing direct tax in line with our Group Tax Strategy and work closely with our business partners to ensure the tax implications of business decisions are managed and understood.

Management of the Group’s Corporate UK Tax obligations supported by external advisers will be key to success in this role. Transfer pricing is an element of the role, ensuring our transfer pricing policies are aligned to group activity and all documentation requirements are met. You’ll also deliver reporting of direct tax including management accounting, external reporting and managing the relationship with our external auditors.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Manage Direct Tax & transfer pricing position for the Group (excluding US) and group financial reporting.
2. Significantly impact the tax risks and costs to the business.
3. Manage all corporate tax to deliver timely and accurate filing of all necessary returns and payment of liabilities to avoid financial penalties and inspections for the group (excluding US) supported by local finance teams and global tax advisers as required.
4. Support the business to ensure that tax issues arising from commercial decisions are identified and addressed and tax issues resolved.
5. Optimise tax efficiency and identify possible tax savings following appropriate processes to minimise Clarks’ tax liability and maximise appropriate reliefs.
6. Notify all disclosable matters and respond to tax enquiries in a full and timely manner to maintain positive working relationships with tax authorities.
7. Understand and address tax legislation changes to ensure continued tax compliance and early identification of opportunities to minimise tax costs for the group.
8. Maintain transfer pricing policies for the group ensuring alignment with Group transfer pricing policies.
9. Report, monitor and document as required to ensure the accounting of intra-company transactions are in accordance with agreed TP policies.
10. Ensure inter-company agreements are maintained and aligned with the transfer pricing position.
11. Prepare local files in line with risk assessment supported by external advisers as required, including preparation of the group Masterfile.
12. Ensure Country by Country reporting requirements are met for the group, including preparation of the group report and notifications globally.
13. Manage and deliver reporting of direct tax including management accounts, interim and annual accounts for the group under IFRS.
14. Manage relationships with external statutory auditors.
15. Manage SAO compliance process for the group. Manage the group’s WHT obligations. Management of our global tax advisers.
16. Recommend and implement changes to tax systems, formal procedures, processes, and administration of tax services to drive improvement to current and future ways of working in line with agreed outcomes.

Skill, Knowledge and Experience:

1. CTA qualification is essential for this role.
2. Experience of Aplatax and Oracle, SAP or Sage.
3. Expert knowledge in tax that is consistently applied.
4. Tax qualification and significant experience in a corporate organisation.
5. Significant influencing of complex stakeholder groups required.
6. Ability to work autonomously and support the development and direction of the team.
7. Significant knowledge of tax regulations.
8. Good management and financial accounting knowledge.
9. Understanding of business operations and processes to ensure tax opportunities are maximised and tax costs minimised.
10. Good understanding and interpretation of tax law.
11. Strong accounting and SAP business system knowledge.
12. Excellent report writing, correspondence and negotiation skills.
13. Experience of direct dealing and negotiation with tax authorities.
14. Experience of working autonomously on multiple projects and meeting deadlines.
15. Strong analytical and economic analysis skills for data interpretation.
16. Strong influencing and relationship building skills.

About Clarks

Clarks, based in Somerset, England, has been at the forefront of innovative shoemaking since its foundation in 1825, when brothers James and Cyrus Clark made a slipper from sheepskin off-cuts. Sparking revolutions and defining generations, Clarks’ archive of over 22,000 pairs includes the inimitable Desert Boot and Wallabee – and a ground-breaking combination of invention and craftsmanship remains at the heart of what the brand does now. Cutting-edge collaborations with cultural icons and KOLs, taking strides in social change, reimagining legendary silhouettes, and making shoes that move with the world ahead – Clarks is never standing still.

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