Tax Manager - International

Posted:
9/18/2024, 11:40:08 PM

Location(s):
England, United Kingdom ⋅ Windsor, Ontario, Canada ⋅ Ontario, Canada ⋅ Wakefield, England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Accounting

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We are looking for an experienced Tax Manager to lead the management of international taxes and transfer pricing for Centrica. You will act act as the lead tax business partner for overseas activity where there is no local tax support

Location - Windsor / Flexible Home Working

The Role

  • Manage the provision of international tax advice to the Group including on BEPS Pillar 2, profit repatriation and expansion into new territories.
  • Lead transfer pricing across the Group, setting the strategy for optimising intra-group transactions and ensuring compliance with global documentation requirements, including managing the out-sourced preparation.
  • Act as the lead tax business partner for the Business Unit’s overseas activities within the remit of the role, providing tax advice, engaging external advisers and managing the global compliance outsource provider.
  • Support global mobility providing advice to the Reward team and business units on global mobility tax issues.
  • Ensure a robust control framework is established and maintained for all direct taxes outside of the UK, maintaining governance and risk documentation for direct taxes for the operating units.
  • Work with the Tax Manager Transformation and other Centrica teams to deliver continuous process improvement for International Taxes.
  • Assist Tax Directors and Tax Managers in delivering training or other support to ensure the group remains compliant with all direct tax obligations outside of the UK.

The Person

  • Tax qualification and tax work experience in practice or in-house
  • By exception, an accounting qualification and/or relevant tax technical or reporting experience can be considered.
  • Experience and general technical knowledge of international tax, transfer pricing and global reporting requirements. 
  • Experience of dealing with European jurisdictions.
  • Ability to research tax technical issues with minimum direction.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills enabling efficient interaction with senior Finance and other stakeholders (internal and external) and effective collaboration within and outside the Tax team
  • Proven ability to take initiative/ownership of the issue and to achieve results under pressure and with imperfect/incomplete information

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary
  • Pension
  • Bonus
  • Flexible working
  • Healthcare
  • Car allowance

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!


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