Description
CONTRACT Tax expert required for a leading retail company on an initial 6-month contract in Leicester.
Location: Leicester
Length: 6 months' initial
Rate: £Depending on experience
Skills and experience:
- Must hold relevant professional qualification (CTA and/or ACA)
- Previous experience in a similar role
- Ability to provide and present accurate, consistent and timely information
- Ability to ascertain the requirements of the business in relation to the provision of tax and financial information
- Customer Focus; dedicated to meet the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers
- Motivating Others; creates a climate in which people want to do their best
- Process Management; knows how to organize people and activities
- Drive for Results; can be counted on to exceed goals successfully
- Planning; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks
- Problem solving; uses rigorous logic and methods to solve problems with effective solutions
- Strong excel skills and knowledge of financial reporting systems preferable
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare UK and Ireland corporate income tax returns for the companies across the group
- Calculate corporate income tax payments on account for the UK and Irish companies
- Work with the rest of Group Tax to ensure that the UK companies comply with group and statutory accounts tax reporting requirements. This involves working to tight deadlines and involves preparing tax calculations, providing tax journals to the Finance department and assisting with the tax consolidation process
- Provide UK and Irish tax technical support to the business
- Provide technical review of VAT and Intrastat returns prior to their submission
- Obtain a thorough understanding of how the business operates such that the impact of changes to tax legislation are quickly identified and addressed
- Assist the Tax Director in identifying tax opportunities and resolving tax issues arising from the Group's UK business activities to ensure we are tax compliant and pay the correct amount of tax
- Ongoing maintenance and control of complex transfer pricing model
- Support the Tax Director with Pan-European transfer pricing matters and ensure transfer pricing documentation is up-to-date
- Support the Tax Director on group-wide tax and business projects