Tax reporting manager fully remote - eFinancialCareers : Job Details

Rare opportunity to work for a growing group in a fully remote working role. You will primarily support the coordination of the tax reporting process while performing first level preparation and review of certain local and group workpapers along with other best practice tasks (pre-YE trial run, ad hoc Pillar 2 and group tax analysis). This will involve liaison internally with various group and local finance teams; and externally with outsourced providers.

Job Description:

• Support the International Tax Controller in planning each tax reporting cycle, followed by leading the associated testing of the internal templates and gathering all required data prior to distribution to all stakeholder groups.
• Review of tax provisioning computations in local tax packs for low and medium risk entities.
• Identification and resolution of issues within local tax provisions and tax status questionnaires, as prepared by the local finance/tax teams.
• Support the International Tax Controller in calculating the various BAU/group-level tax adjustments including the identification of any (tax impact of) late PBT changes, the recognition of deferred tax assets under IAS 12 and any future movements in uncertain tax positions under IFRIC 23.
• Support the International Tax Controller in analysing the tax positions at jurisdictional level for purposes of transitional CbCR safe harbour and Pillar 2 (in terms of adjusted covered tax and GloBE income).
• Keep up to date on Pillar 2 developments, support the International Tax Controller with UAT and implementation of systems for CbCR and Pillar 2 reporting, as well as process improvement of existing Excel based templates.
• Act as key liaison point with the local finance teams once the local packs are signed off by the International Tax Controller to ensure that tax journals both from a P&L and B/S perspectives are appropriately entered into the system and in turn, that the final tax balances in D365 materially aligns to the group tax reconciliation.
• First level preparation / update of the rolling tax summary and associated tax memos ensuring all key tax positions, events and issues are accurately documented, all of which ultimately feed into the group tax reconciliation as prepared by the International Tax Controller.
• With the support of the International Tax Controller, liaising with the wider Group Tax team to deal with any auditor's tax queries and requests with regard to the group accounts.
• Act as control operator in reviewing and documenting review of the tax reporting process for internal controls purposes under group ICFR.
• Other ad hoc duties as assigned by the International Tax Controller, including but not limited to the coordination of the pre-YE trial run, regular updates of the group tax reporting manual and associated training materials to be finalised and presented by the International Tax Controller, and annual revision of the tax impact of undistributed reserves to be reviewed by the International Tax Controller.

Candidate profile:

• Qualified accountant
• Experience in IFRS accounting
• Experience in Group Tax reporting
• Advanced Excel skills
• Background in tax accounting and reporting
• Experience in use of Alteryx
• Experience in tax systems implementation/data maintenance

For more information, please contact Mo Hanslod at Goodman Masson.

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