Tax Advisor (Europe / Remote)

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Requirements

• Proven experience in corporate taxation, gained within international organisations.
• Strong knowledge of direct and indirect taxes, including VAT and corporate tax.
• Experience managing international tax compliance, tax reporting, and tax risk.
• Experience working with tax authorities, auditors, and external advisors.
• Knowledge of transfer pricing, M&A, restructurings, and international expansion.
• Strong stakeholder management and people leadership skills.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Management of all taxes across direct and indirect tax.
• Working with external tax advisors to ensure all local corporate tax returns, claims, and elections are submitted on time.
• Management of the relationship with various tax authorities.
• Preparing group and entity corporation tax, deferred tax, computations, cash flows, and payment forecasts to aid statutory reporting, filing, and budget requirements.
• Ownership of group tax reporting processes, including development of a tax risk framework.
• Oversight over expansion into new territories, analyzing all relevant tax structuring and costs associated with new territories.
• Supporting the Customer Company with M&A activity, reorganisations, and tax due diligence.
• Ownership of indirect tax compliance and submission of relevant returns and statistical reports. Being responsible for managing the relationship with Tax authorities and consultants in relation to all taxes.
• Support tax audits of a large multi-legal entity.
• Responsibility for the annual tax provision workings and tax notes for the consolidated and the legal entities' statutory accounts.
• Involvement in the preparation of legal entity statutory accounts under FRS102 and local GAAP and liaising with auditors and accounting teams.
• Take ownership of Group’s implementation of transfer pricing and loan agreements and ensure they are effectively implemented and followed. Ensuring a master transfer pricing document is in place, with local jurisdictional transfer pricing documents.
• Develop tax planning strategies and preparing relevant plans to support the business needs.
• Provide support to the Group and its shareholder on tax aspects of restructurings or commercial contracts/arrangements.
• Provide support to key stakeholders.