Interim Group Tax Manager

Pearse Portfolio; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearse Portfolio is supporting a leading private equity backed FinTech company in a newly created role to lead and implement the group tax function. You will design and run the function with broad commercial scope and own the tax processes.

You will lead Group VAT, corporate tax compliance, and the open post-completion tax action list, while implementing controls and working with advisors and HMRC.

Qualifications

• UK VAT and corporation tax experience required.
• Must be able to run the tax function with no team beneath you.
• Ability to explain tax to non-experts and liaise with advisors/HMRC.

Responsibilities

• Lead and design the group's tax function end-to-end.
• Own VAT reporting and data quality across finance systems.
• Oversee corporate tax compliance lifecycle.
• Manage open post-completion tax actions and risk controls.
• Support due diligence and structuring input on acquisitions.

Skills

UK VAT experience

UK corporation tax experience

Stakeholder communication

Explain tax to non-experts

Tools

Tax technology implementation

Job description

Pearse Portfolio are supporting a leading private equity backed FinTech company. This is a newly created position across the Group, they are looking for someone to lead and implement a function. The work has a broad and commercial scope, you will design the tax function as you run it.

What you will own

• Group VAT - submit and review group VAT return, and own VAT data quality across the group's finance systems
• Corporate tax compliance life cycle
• Take ownership of the group's open post-completion tax action list
• Implement tax processes and controls and reduce manual effort in tax data preparation and reporting
• Support tax due diligence review and structuring input on future acquisitions

Key Requirements

• Both UK VAT experience and UK corporation tax experience
• Review and prepare - there will be no team beneath you
• Ability to explain tax to non-experts, and communicate effectively with advisors, auditors and HMRC
• Comfortable in an environment where systems and data are still being consolidated

Preferred

• PE experience
• Exposure to tax due diligence
• Experience in system/tax technology implementation