Senior Tax Analyst

About Temenos

Temenos powers a world of banking that creates opportunities for billions of people and businesses everywhere. We have been doing this for over 30 years through the pioneering spirit of our Temenosians who are passionate about making banking better, together. We serve over 3000 clients from the largest to challengers and community banks in 150+ countries. We collaborate with clients to build new banking services and state-of-the-art customer experiences on our open banking platform, helping them operate more sustainably.

At Temenos, we have an open-minded and inclusive culture, where everyone has the power to create their own destiny and make a positive contribution to the world of banking and society.

Values

• Care about transforming the Banking landscape.
• Commit to being part of an exciting culture and product evolving within the financial industry.
• Collaborate effectively and proactively with teams within or outside Temenos.
• Challenge yourself to be ambitious and achieve your individual as well as the company targets.

The Role

You will work collaboratively with the Global Corporate Tax Director on the Group’s tax reporting requirements and play a key role in European and North American tax matters, in addition to supporting various ad hoc projects.

Opportunities

• Support the preparation of the year‑end and interim Group consolidated tax charge and tax disclosure notes under IFRS.
• Assist in preparing the Group tax forecast and contribute to analysis used to monitor and explain the Group’s Effective Tax Rate (ETR).
• Prepare deferred tax asset and liability schedules, including analysing temporary differences, net operating loss carryforwards, and the tax impacts of business combinations.
• Preparing responses for the group’s external auditors to obtain final audit clearance of the group consolidated tax provisions, reconciliations, and disclosure notes.
• Compile data for Country‑by‑Country Reporting (CBCR).
• Compile data required for BEPS Pillar 2 filings.
• Support the Global Corporate Tax Director and Global Head of Tax and collaborate with the wider tax team and external advisors on tax planning initiatives and tax strategy.
• Support the Global Corporate Tax Director in maintaining the Group’s tax risk register, applying the prescribed measurement methodology for Uncertain Tax Positions (UTPs), ensuring risks are kept up to date and properly tracked, and assisting with updates to management on key risks and opportunities.
• Assist in preparing an entity Profit before Tax (PBT) review each quarter to make sure it’s in line with expectation.
• Review corporation tax returns and tax disclosure notes in local statutory financial statements for European and North American regions.
• Partner with the Finance team on M&A activities, including providing tax accounting steps and input to maximise tax benefits.
• Provide business units with withholding tax advice, appropriate documentation, and tax accounting guidance.
• Support and coordinate tax projects, including oversight of outsourced global tax compliance, while accurately tracking project status, deliverables, and information requests, and collaborating with the team to ensure timely completion.
• Work with other tax managers and Financial Controllers as required.
• Conduct technical research and provide analysis on the impact of legislative changes.

Skills

• Qualified accountant with a UK corporate tax background, including experience in tax accounting.
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience using Oracle Tax Reporting Cloud Service (TRCS) or similar tax provision software is highly desirable.
• Experience preparing or reviewing tax disclosures for Group financial statements accurately and on time.
• Experience calculating quarterly tax charges and managing strong relationships with external auditors.
• Understanding of internal controls frameworks.
• Practice or Industry experience (FinTech beneficial but not required).
• Strong knowledge of tax accounting under IFRS.
• Strong knowledge of corporate income tax.
• Experience with R&D tax claims would be beneficial.
• Awareness of transfer pricing principles.

Values

• Care about establishing interest, trust and credibility towards your internal stakeholders.
• Commit to TAX plan in accordance with the finance strategy.
• Collaborate to maintain the highest standards of Temenos through self-motivation, ambition and focus.
• Challenge yourself to keep Temenos at its highest level in the market.

SOME OF OUR BENEFITS include:

• Maternity leave: Transition back with 3 days per week in the first month and 4 days per week in the second month.
• Civil Partnership: 1 week of paid leave if you’re getting married. This covers marriages and civil partnerships, including same sex/civil partnership.
• Family care: 4 weeks of paid family care leave.
• Recharge days: 4 days per year to use when you need to physically or mentally recharge.
• Study leave: 2 weeks of paid leave each year for study or personal development.