Senior UK Tax Manager

Insurance Network; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000

Job description

Purpose Of The Role

Provide UK advisory, reporting and compliance support to the business and wider tax team. In particular being UK tax advisory lead on significant group projects (especially treasury tax and restructuring) and own and develop UK cash tax forecasting and deferred tax models.

Job Description

• Supporting Head of UK Direct Tax and Group Tax Reporting and wider Group Tax team in the delivery of group and UK tax reporting to Senior Management
• Designated UK tax technical lead for corporation tax (including treasury tax issues and other material UK tax projects)
• Preparation of tax technical memos on key issues
• Dealing with HMRC enquiries as relevant
• Preparing UK group CIR and Group relief and related returns / forms using Alphatax group module
• Strong tax technical knowledge of UK tax legislation to support the in-house UK tax compliance process
• Preparing UK corporate tax computations in Alphatax for allocated companies
• Preparing UK corporate and deferred tax calculations for allocated UK entities company statutory including drafting required note disclosures using Alphatax
• Preparing UK quarterly tax instalment calculations
• Assisting with integration newly acquired UK entities in an acquisitive group (e.g. opening tax balances)
• Maintaining and updating SAO documentation
• Managing UK tax risk
• Clearing up entities for liquidation
• Ad hoc projects requiring tax input

Qualifications & Experience

• UK Tax and / or Accountancy qualifications (CTA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent)
• Tax advisory experience especially linked to treasury tax matters
• Good written communication skills
• Demonstrable experience and proficiency with tax compliance and reporting systems, preferably Alphatax and CCH Tagetik
• Excellent knowledge of Excel and related modelling experience
• Ideally IFRS and FRS101 tax accounting experience, including completion of tax provisions for UK statutory accounts, drafting tax notes, checking journals, understanding link between group and local DT and agreement of tax accounting disclosures with auditors