Corporate Tax Manager

ENGINEERINGUK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension/ retirement

Life assurance

Medical plans

Holiday / paid time off

Employee assistance programme

Transport and lunch vouchers

Job summary

RS is seeking a Corporate Tax professional to support UK and Group tax reporting across IFRS and UK GAAP. You will coordinate with external advisers to complete global corporate returns and respond to tax enquiries, while improving processes and leveraging automation.

The role requires ACA/ACCA/CTA or equivalent, with experience in corporate tax in an international environment. You will interact with multiple stakeholder groups and contribute to tax saving initiatives.

Qualifications

• Qualified ACA, ACCA, CTA or equivalent.
• Experience in Corporate Tax with IFRS/UK GAAP in an international environment.
• Career in UK & International Tax.
• Confidently communicate complex tax issues to non-tax professionals.
• Build strong business relationships across the organization.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Flexible, multitasker and hands-on team player.

Responsibilities

• Support UK and Group tax reporting under IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Oversee UK quarterly instalment payments and group tax provisions.
• Assist with UK GAAP tax notes and overseas statutory notes.
• Liaise with outsourced providers for UK returns and CFC disclosures.
• Drive efficiencies via automation and process improvements.
• Provide tax advice to internal stakeholders and support regulatory changes.

Skills

ACA/ACCA/CTA

UK & International Tax

Stakeholder communication

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Multi-tasking

Education

ACA/ACCA/CTA or equivalent

Job description

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Location: This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our London office.

Contract Type: Permanent

The Opportunity

The role will support with UK and Group tax matters including UK GAAP & IFRS tax accounting for UK & Group consolidated taxes, managing the completion of corporate returns globally through a network of external advisors, supporting the business on tax matters and regulatory tax projects and responding to tax enquiries.

What You Will Be Doing

Corporate Tax Reporting

• Support the Senior Manager with UK and Group consolidated external and internal reporting processes including Year End and Half Year (under IFRS), month end, forecasting, and budget. This includes supporting with the implementation of a group wide tax reporting tool.
• Monitor, review and provide support on group-wide tax provisions, including deferred tax and working with regional finance teams and shared service centre (SSC).
• Assist with preparation of UK GAAP tax notes for UK statutory accounts and review tax notes for overseas statutory accounts.
• Contribute to Group ETR and cash tax forecasting process, including monitoring of UK and overseas prior year adjustments.

Compliance

• Liaise with outsourced providers to oversee the timely preparation and submission of UK tax returns (including overseeing R&D and other incentive claims) including preparation of CFC disclosures in the UK tax returns and monitor the status of overseas tax compliance.
• Calculation of UK quarterly instalment payments and monitor global tax payments.
• Support with any tax audits utilising local finance team and advisers.
• Work with the finance teams to drive efficiencies in the tax compliance and reporting processes through automation, technology, and process improvement initiatives.
• Support the obtaining of withholding tax certificates

Governance

• Identification and implementation of improvements to the quality of tax information, processes and use of systems including supporting existing SAO processes.
• Ensure key systems, responsibilities and processes related to tax are documented and fit for purpose, including those delivered within SSC environment.

Advisory and project support

• Assist in providing tax advice to key internal stakeholders across the business, to ensure compliance with Tax legislation and drive efficiencies and tax savings.
• Support team with regulatory changes and projects as and when required.

What You'll Bring

• Qualified ACA, ACCA, CTA or equivalent.
• Experience working in Corporate Tax, with a strong understanding of Corporate Tax compliance and reporting under IFRS and UK GAAP in an international environment, gained from practice and industry.
• Career in UK & International Tax.
• Able to communicate confidently and effectively at all levels of the business and to various stakeholder groups, with the ability to explain complex tax issues to non-tax professionals.
• Able to build strong business relationships.
• Analytical & problem-solving skills.
• Flexible working style with the ability to multitask.
• Highly motivated team player, with willingness to be hands on.

We Are RS

At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world.

As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.

What sets us apart is our people. More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values - We are one team, We deliver brilliantly, We do the right thing, and We make every day better, we're creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute and make a meaningful impact.

Join us and help make amazing happen.

Rewards

Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.

Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
• Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
• Spotlight - our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values

Ready to Make Amazing Happen?

Join over 8,500 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are - it all starts here.