Assistant Tax Manager

Hogan Lovells; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in London is seeking an Assistant Tax Manager to support the International and Projects Tax sub-team. This role involves delivering advisory projects, managing compliance, and coordinating with external advisors on tax issues. Candidates should have relevant tax qualifications, strong analytical skills, and effective communication abilities. The firm offers hybrid working options, allowing for flexible arrangements between home and office.

Qualifications

• Strong technical base with a desire to expand tax knowledge.
• Ability to deal with complex problems and identify effective solutions.
• Excellent communication of technical issues to various stakeholders.
• Proficiency in prioritizing tasks to meet deadlines.
• Meticulous attention to detail in all work.
• Proactive in anticipating issues and suggesting process improvements.
• Handle sensitive data with tact and discretion.

Responsibilities

• Oversee local tax computations and collaborate with external advisors.
• Attend project meetings identifying tax implications.
• Conduct international project work including memo preparation.
• Collaborate with external advisors for tax solutions.
• Monitor the impact of legislative changes.
• Refresh transfer pricing files while ensuring compliance.
• Track global mobility tax consequences and advise accordingly.
• Coordinate with UK and Central Tax sub-teams on projects.
• Serve as a key contact for non-UK offices.

Skills

Technical ability

Analytical ability

Communication skills

Organisational ability

Attention to detail

Initiative

Tact and diplomacy

Education

Tax or accounting qualification (CTA, ACA or ACCA)

Tools

Microsoft Office (Excel)

Job description

Job Title

Assistant Tax Manager

Office Location

London

Department

Finance – Tax and Partner Matters Team

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office,please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Role Overview

This is a new role, with a heavy focus on advisory work, which is intended to give extra capacity to the International and Projects Tax sub team in dealing with its core responsibilities and support the Senior Tax Manager in the delivery of these projects:

• Assisting in the delivery of advisory projects.
• Transfer pricing reviews.
• Permanent establishments / taxable presence.
• Overseeing International tax compliance on a global scale.
• Global mobility.

Key Responsibilities

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services. All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

• Overseeing the completion of local tax computations and returns by external advisors, alongside local Finance Managers. The extent information or calculations are required, preparing these for review by the Senior Tax Manager.
• Attending project meetings and identifying, alongside the Senior Tax Manager, the tax implications of proposed projects. Projects include office restructures, new office openings and closures where required.
• Completing international project related work for example, but not limited to, preparing internal memos for senior leadership of the firm, undertaking modelling and other complex calculations and undertaking research where required.
• Working with external advisors to formulate solutions to any tax issues arising at any point in the project review.
• Helping respond to legislative change in the various jurisdictions outside of the UK we operate in.
• Transfer pricing – refreshing the master files and country files and monitoring compliance with local rules.
• Tracking the tax consequences of global mobility, including the tax consequences for the individual and for the firm, and preparing advice for the review of the Senior Tax Manager.
• Work alongside and coordinate with the UK and Central Tax sub-team on projects and workstreams that cross both the non-UK and UK offices.
• Alongside the Senior Tax Manager be a main point of contact for partners and Finance Managers, or other Business Team contacts, in our non-UK offices.
• Developing more efficient processes and procedures across the relevant areas of responsibility.

Skills & Experience

The Candidate

• Technical ability – a strong technical base is required but the successful candidate should also have a desire to develop their tax knowledge and a keen interest in being involved in tax advisory projects.
• Analytical ability – dealing with complex problems and identifying effective solutions.
• Communication skills - explaining technical issues clearly, both orally and in writing, to colleagues in finance, partners and external advisers.
• Organisational ability - prioritising tasks to meet internal and statutory deadlines, ability to deal with competing demands.
• Attention to detail - ensuring work is prepared to a high standard.
• Initiative – anticipating issues and identifying improvements to processes and procedures.
• Tact and diplomacy – dealing appropriately with sensitive personal data relating to partners.

Qualifications and Training

• The candidate should hold a tax or accounting qualification, ideally CTA, ACA or ACCA.
• A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office - in particular Excel - is essential.
• The candidate should demonstrate either experience of, or appropriate aptitude and interest in working in an international tax environment.

Equal Opportunities Employment & Agile Working Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex, gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.