Tax Accountant - Homeworking

Working for a global business, this role will primarily be responsible for the preparation of the CT and VAT computations & returns for the UK group subsidiaries and management of related tax compliance in accordance with local requirements. The role will also support tax & statutory reporting colleagues in the submission of legal entity financial data to Group.

The postholder will take ownership of monthly reporting of all Forex activity including liaison with Business controllers on hedging deals in place liaison with group treasury function, cash management of varies currency bank accounts/forex requirements and forex forecasting (full training will be provided for this element of the role).

The position will be reporting into the Financial Controller with dotted line responsibility to the country Tax Manager.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Preparation of Corporation Tax computations for all UK tax resident entities for review by the Tax Manager including managing the quarterly Group tax payments in the UK, and tax accounting/balances for all UK tax resident entities.
• Involvement in quarterly and annual tax reporting including assistance with the preparation of current and deferred tax calculations.
• Assistance with the provision of information for preparation of transfer pricing documentation.

• Other direct tax responsibilities include assistance with the fulfilment of withholding tax compliance and reporting obligations, maintenance of tax resident certificates, analysing data for research and development claims; expense analysis and PSA returns etc
• Preparation of UK and IE VAT returns for review by the Tax Manager
• Preparation of Intrastat returns, EC Sales list, etc.
• Support the preparation of UK & I Statutory accounts and liaison with external audit bodies.
• Management of all Forex related activity for the UK and Ireland

Experience and Skills Required

• Accountancy/Tax qualification (ACA, ACCA, CTA, ATT)
• Experience of Corporate tax return and VAT return preparation
• Experience of tax accounting (particularly under IFRS) preferred