Work in a small, growing, Corporate Tax team, which offers Big 4 quality work in a superb work environment, based on a collaborative culture. Building your network internally, in the UK and overseas, is key to the success of the team, as they receive a lot of high quality referrals from the USA and other overseas offices.
1. Client service delivery
Tax reporting:
You will be involved in the delivery of UK tax reporting services to a diverse client base, which includes the following:
· UK publicly listed companies.
· US headquartered multinationals (including US listed groups).
· UK privately owned and private equity backed groups.
The exact scope of tax reporting work will vary but is likely to include the following:
· Preparation of UK entity only tax numbers in accordance with IFRS or UK GAAP.
· Preparation of UK group tax numbers, likely to involve the incorporation of tax numbers for non-UK subsidiaries, GAAP-to GAAP adjustments (e.g. US GAAP to IFRS) and consolidation adjustments.
· Advising on client’s tax reporting processes.
· Advising on the tax aspects of GAAP conversion projects.
· Advising on the tax reporting (and other) aspects of IPO readiness.
UK corporation tax compliance
Tax governance
Tax advisory
You will be involved in tax advisory work likely to include the following:
· Ad hoc corporate tax advisory work originating from compliance engagements – e.g. loss planning and utilization, tax implications of trade and asset transfers, interest deductibility.
· Cash tax modelling exercises.
· Group simplification exercises.
· Tax due diligence for client transactions.
· Tax structuring for client transactions.
Skills and Competencies:
Knowledge:
· Experience of UK tax reporting processes.
· Knowledge of tax reporting IFRS and UK GAAP; high level understanding of US GAAP desired but not essential.
· Experience of the UK tax return preparation process, and good technical understanding with common tax adjusting items such as capital allowances and other incentives, interest deductibility, hybrid mismatches, loss utilisation etc.
· Experience of responding to and managing HMRC tax enquiries.
· Knowledge / an appreciation of cross-border tax matters would be highly desirable, e.g. transfer pricing, country by country reporting etc.
Qualifications:
· Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA) required; additional tax qualification (e.g. CTA) strongly desired.
Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates
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