Manager – Tax Authority Engagement
- Recruiter
- Walt Disney Company Limited
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 13 Sep 2019
- Closes
- 11 Oct 2019
- Job Title
- Tax
- Category
- Media / Entertainment
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Corporate Tax Manager – Tax Authority Engagement
London, Hammersmith
Competitive
We have a new opportunity for a Corporate Tax Manager who will support the EMEA Corporate Tax Principal with compliance with tax legislative processes and tax authority audit/controversy matters across all EMEA countries and lines of business. Support the Corporate Tax department (US and EMEA) by managing the preparation of supporting schedules, documentation for tax authority enquiries and compliance with new documentation legislation. Support the EMEA tax team on ad-hoc projects. Work with junior members of the team to develop their skills and knowledge.
This role will require a highly motivated tax professional with strong technical, organisational and interpersonal skills who wishes to pursue a career in a growing and dynamic global organisation.
Responsibilities:
Tax authority engagement, audits and controversy management
- Prepare responses to tax authority audit requests, liaising with local and regional finance and business teams to collate relevant information including preparation of additional information to support positions taken
- Understand the business operations, transfer pricing and tax profile of the companies to prepare accurate and appropriate responses
- Understanding and following local country audit procedures, processes and timings
- Working with advisers, determining and monitoring their scope, budgets and obtaining necessary approvals
- Attendance at tax authority meetings
- Management of smaller audit procedures
- Provide input into projects regarding future controversy strategy such as Advance Pricing Agreements and Mutual Agreement Procedures
- Work closely with US tax and reporting colleagues to ensure proper accounting provisions and reporting of controversy matters are recorded.
- Ensure accurate and detailed records and files are kept for the audit processes
- Devise and maintain best-practice documentation retention policy for current business operations and changes
- Undertake and document regular functional analysis to ensure transfer pricing policy represents business operations
- Liaise with US tax colleagues on other global audits, providing information as required
Legislation updates
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with latest legislation requirements for example EU Mandatory Disclosure regime
- Review latest legislation for impact on the group and providing solutions on how to meet these new obligations
- Review and monitor all EMEA wide intercompany arrangements and transfer pricing suggesting improvements and changes to align to business changes and latest tax legislation developments and best practice
- Maintain and update documentation relating to intercompany arrangements and key accounting processes such as SAO and Sarbanes Oxley requirements
Ad-hoc projects
- Supporting the EMEA and US tax teams and the wider Finance and Controllership teams on any ad-hoc tasks and advisory projects
Skills and Experience
- Qualified ACA (and CTA a plus)
- Significant tax compliance experience
- Big 4 tax experience is a preference
- Experience of working in a multinational and media sector a plus
- International tax advisory and transfer pricing experience for multinational companies (including US tax experience is a plus). Need to be commercial and practical.
- Good communication skills being able to communicate tax technical issues easily to non-tax professionals
- Significant UK and global tax compliance experience
- Transfer pricing knowledge
- Strong Microsoft Office skills especially Excel (SAP experience a plus)
- Attention to detail
- Analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
- Proven ability to produce quality research and analysis both in a quantitative and narrative form – directly and with and through teams.
- Able to manage workload to tight deadlines and prioritise multiple tasks and work streams
- Strong interpersonal skills to establish effective working relationships at all levels of the organisation.
About the Team:
Following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, the Disney EMEA tax team is recruiting several tax roles at a variety of professional levels. This is to ensure that the EMEA Tax team is fully resourced to enable it to properly engage with and support the new joint businesses, further demonstrating that the Tax team is considered a true business partner. The roles will also enable Disney to ensure it can meet increasing legislative requirements in a challenging and evolving tax environment. Some temporary roles have also been created to help with the integration activities. These new roles will join Disney at a very exciting time, not only the Fox integration but also due to significant business developments (e.g. Disney + streaming service). So it is a great time to join a growing dynamic team in an exciting and fun company.