Job Description

UK Tax Compliance - Consulting (Director)

London, £130,000 + Bonus + Equity

Market leading finance transformation accounting advisory group managing Tax, accounting, reporting, compliance, for corporates across the UK and USA. Non-BIG 4, Non-Audit, firm established twenty years seeking consultants at Director grade with deep tax technical expertise.

Client’s base will be focused on privately held, and/or PE backed emerging businesses. Culturally, this is high reward and high growth environment where entrepreneurship is recognised and encouraged with high value on learning, team work and professional excellence

The recently formed UK tax practice is in growth phases and looking to quickly assemble a high-quality team of tax professionals for the London and Edinburgh offices.

 Tax Compliance Director to join growing UK tax team. This role will be involved in all aspects of UK corporate tax (reporting, compliance, governance and advisory) and will have direct interaction with both clients and senior members of the UK tax team in order to deliver these services.

·       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.

It is likely that a significant proportion of tax advisory work will arise on private equity backed clients and therefore an advanced understanding of the tax implications of the private equity ownership model and the investment lifecycle are highly desirable.

You should have knowledge / experience of advising clients on some or all of the following:

·       Immediate post-acquisition tax actions, e.g. preparation of “post-acq tax checklist”, implementation of any structural actions, remediation of key tax DD items, withholding tax management

·       Refinancing, bolt-ons, group simplification and reorganization.

·       Tax compliance related advisory (e.g. interest deductibility, anti-hybrids, transaction costs).

·       Exit readiness (e.g. healthcheck reviews).

·       Exit support (vendor assist role: tax DD support and negotiation, exit structuring, transaction balance sheet).

Business development - opportunity to get involved in business development activities, including the following: drafting of proposals and involvement in the sales process (e.g. meetings, pitches, etc.).

Teaming with colleagues from other service areas and Identifying additional revenue streams with clients.

 

Skills and Competencies:

·       Significant experience of scoping, leading and managing UK tax advisory projects.

·       Experience of working on UK transactions and involvement in diligence and structuring (e.g. for buyside buyout or bolt-on).

·       Experience of the UK tax return preparation process, and good technical understanding with common tax adjusting items such as interest deductibility, hybrid mismatches, loss utilization etc.

·       Knowledge of UK tax accounting and reporting processes under IFRS and UK GAAP.

·       Experience of responding to and managing HMRC tax enquiries.

·       High level knowledge / an appreciation of the principles of non-corporate tax areas, such as VAT, payroll taxes and share schemes.

·       Knowledge / an appreciation of cross-border tax matters, e.g. transfer pricing, BEPS Pillar 2, country by country reporting etc.

 

 Qualifications:

 ·       Seven years of corporate tax experience with some/all of this time ideally spent in the Big 4.

·       ACA, ACCA required; CTA strongly desired