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Alvarez & Marsal
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London, Greater London
In-house Tax Manager, Europe & Asia-Pacific
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Job Description
Joining an established finance team of 20 professionals based in the European Head Office in Moorgate London, this team supports offices across 10 countries in Europe, Middle East and Russia as part of the shared service function. Reporting to the Tax Director Europe & Asia-Pacific, this is a key role that will assist with both compliance and advisory tax work while being customer service focused and an important one stop service for our internal stakeholders, many of whom are very senior and high calibre individuals. The ideal candidate will be flexible and willing to work outside of one's comfort zone, have strong technical skills and the ability to make sound commercial judgement. They will be proactive, have a hands-on approach and be solution orientated often researching information and developing proposals independently. The tax team is supported by the Global tax team in New York and work closely with advisers. Key Responsibilities * Compliance * Liaise with outsourced local compliance providers in all countries and monitor deadlines for direct tax filings to ensure timely and accurate preparation and filing of local, state and national direct tax filings; * Manage and plan local tax compliance issues in larger territories to mitigate cash tax costs eg optimizing tax groupings, use of on-account payments; * High-level review of local territory direct tax filings for material jurisdictions; * Manage direct tax payments on a monthly basis; * Prepare and manage annual budget for compliance and advisory advice including reviewing all compliance and advisory fees; * Obtain residence certificates in all countries as required; * Prepare US GAAP FIN48 submission to Group Tax annually including: * review of project work and locations in year for possible PE exposures; * review of inter-company balances for TP exposures; * calculation of FIN48 provision; * Prepare annual Group tax provision calculations for all assigned territories; * Assist with US parent company's Country by Country filing for all assigned territories; * Manage all local territory CbC notifications as required inc monitoring of deadlines; * Review of UK draft tax returns and accounts as prepared by compliance provider; * Prepare UK 1/4ly tax payment estimates and manage payment. * Advisory * Review proposed client project scopes, locations and entities to determine possible PE and payroll exposure risks; * liaise with other departments and teams plus local advisers as necessary; * Assist with ad-hoc queries and planning around equity compensation for Managing Directors; * Assist with ad-hoc queries around MD and Contractor engagement planning and structures (e.g. employee or Personal Services Company); * Identify withholding tax and other exposures on cross-border projects and develop proposals for structuring projects to mitigate exposures; * Manage local tax audits as required including; * managing local compliance service providers, * preparation and review of responses to tax authorities as required including preparing required information and analyses / review of proposed responses by local advisers as appropriate; * Develop tax process guidelines and documentation for governance purposes; * Liaison with other departments as required, in particular Finance, Legal, Payroll and Global Mobility, client-facing teams as well as local outsourced tax compliance and advice providers. Skills and Qualifications * ACA/ CTA or equivalent qualified * A number of years broad-based post-qualification tax experience primarily in a large multinational in-house team or large international tax corporate advisory practice. * Excellent levels of accuracy with strong organisational skills * Deadline orientated and able to prioritise Voluntary Inclusion It is Alvarez & Marsal's policy to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters were engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.