Global Compliance and Reporting Assistant Manager - Big 4

Big 4 London Accountancy firm

Global Compliance and reporting - FTSE100 and Fortune 500 companies

Client Details

Global Compliance & Reporting (GCR) is one of their six tax service lines. Their GCR professionals help businesses meet demands for tax reporting, tax compliance and tax risk management. Many of their engagements are with clients going through wider tax transformation and operating model change programmes. Their GCR team work with a wide range of businesses to help them develop and implement effective, practical and sustainable approaches to managing tax compliance and reporting.

Description

Your key responsibilities

• Contract management
• Support a number of GCR contracts, some with client interface and some in a supervisory service delivery role
• Proactively managing service delivery risk across those contracts through the use of issue and risk logs and the implementation of escalation processes
• Developing and maintaining relationships with key contract stakeholders (internal and external) across multiple jurisdictions, and ensuring effective and timely communication
• Help manage contract governance including adherence to agreed process and procedures
• Help manage contract reporting against service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) ensuring timely resolution of issues
• Provide guidance to juniors and support to peers, colleagues and clients on contractual issues, and oversee local fee and scope negotiations
• Focus on the successful delivery of projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business approach taken

Quality and Risk Management

• Supporting the Global Engagement leader on Quality & Risk Management (QRM) matters, overseeing implementation and adherence to agreed processes, procedures and timetables
• Liaising with Global and Tax QRM and legal teams in the resolution of client service management issues
• Providing Support to help maintain the specified contractual framework and supporting agreements for all engagements

Detailed scoping and process assessments

• Review and suggesting improvements to compliance and reporting processes considering data sources, hand-off points and controls

Business development and proposal assistance

• Working with the Global Engagement Leader to support pursuit and proposal activities, in response to client RFPs. This includes running global pricing exercises and being a part of the presentation team at client presentations
• Support development of client business case for change

Compliance methodology

• Sharing successful tools, techniques and approaches with other GCR team members;
• Project managing small GCR development projects

Profile

• Experience in Corporate Tax, Indirect Tax or accountancy from a professional services firm or in-house team
• ACA / CA / ATTI/CTA/Tax Inspectors or a breadth of knowledge equivalent to a tax specialist qualification
• Proven project management skills, and an ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget. A PRINCE2 qualification or similar would be beneficial.
• Experience of working on international projects
• Process and technology design skills
• An undergraduate or post-graduate degree

Job Offer

Competitive package and benefits - flexible working from home and office