Your new company
Our client is a new global industry-leading law firm, with 48 offices in 29 countries worldwide. Our client has fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets, enabling them to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. Our clients work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.
Our client offers exceptional opportunities for people; opportunities to work for the world’s leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping employees and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for their clients. Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. Our client provide first-rate training and development, and are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and they provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.
Your new role
As a Tax Reserves Manager, you will support the Head of International Tax in the management of global tax affairs, with a specific focus on the delivery of partners’ tax reserves. This will include: • Develop a detailed understanding of the tax systems of the territories in which our client operates in relation to partner tax reserves. • Set up of tax reserves both in GBP and in currency, for both equity and employee/consultant partners, and subsequent reconciliation and release of residual balances, including review of various tax equalisation arrangements. • Coordination of work done by UK and international tax teams to obtain a consolidated view of partners’ overall tax reserves positions as part of ongoing reserves reconciliation and releases processes. • Ongoing review of existing processes to ensure that they continue to be appropriate (e.g. to reflect the impacts of business change transactions and external legislative developments), and to identify opportunities to improve these. • Play a leading role in determining and putting in place appropriate processes for reconciling partner tax reserves for new offices and ensuring that these are maintained going forward. • Support year-end work to deliver tax reserves calculations, tax equalisation calculations and relevant tax disclosures. • Ensuring that positions taken in relation to partner tax reserves are correctly reflected in relevant accounting systems. • Reconciliation and ongoing maintenance of deferred tax control accounts • Build awareness of technology solutions that could generate efficiencies in the tax reserving process and propose recommendations on how these could be implemented. • Communications with partners, CFOs and other stakeholders in relation to tax reserving matters • Liaising with external advisors where required • Coordinate and support the work of junior team members in London and Belfast
What you'll need to succeed
• Collaborative approach and ability to build strong relationships with PAT team colleagues in London, Belfast, and Hong Kong as well as colleagues in other teams located across the globe. • Ability to effectively communicate complex tax and accounting issues both orally and in writing to non-specialists. • Strong analytical skills and an eye for detail. • Broad knowledge of tax issues affecting partners in professional partnerships would be helpful but is not a pre-requisite. What You Will Have • Strong General Ledger accounting skills. • Evidence of strong numeric skills. • ACA or equivalent accounting qualification. • Tax qualification (e.g. ADIT or CTA) is desirable. • Personal or Corporate Tax Experience to Manager level.
What you'll get in return
We recognise that our people are our most valuable asset, which is reflected in the wide range of benefits that are available to our employees. Some of these benefits include: our occupational pension scheme, group income protection cover, private medical insurance, mental health resources and free apps, health and wellbeing services encompassing GP service, emergency back-up care support, parental and special leave, holiday entitlement increasing with length of service, holiday trading, online discounts and lifestyle management services
What you need to do now
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