International Tax Manager

IWG plc; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an International Tax Manager to join their dynamic team. This role involves managing international tax matters and developing effective strategies to optimize tax savings while ensuring compliance. You will collaborate with various stakeholders and play a key role in controversy management during audits. The company is a leader in flexible work solutions, committed to sustainability and providing carbon-neutral workplaces. If you have a strong background in international tax and a passion for innovative solutions, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of international tax principles across various countries.
• Strong research and accounting skills with a proactive attitude.

Responsibilities

• Identify tax savings opportunities and ensure compliance with tax laws.
• Develop international tax strategies and manage audits effectively.

Skills

International tax principles

Research skills

Accounting skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Judgment and decision-making

Job description

International Tax Manager

Job Purpose

As part of the Group Tax team, working closely with the Head of Tax and Global Transfer Pricing Manager, you will have responsibility for international direct tax matters encompassing our worldwide footprint.

Key Responsibilities

• Identifying tax savings opportunities through review of individual country tax profiles to mitigate cash tax costs whilst ensuring compliance with tax laws.
• Developing effective international tax strategies, making recommendations for changes and co-ordinating with internal and external stakeholders to implement approved changes.
• Controversy management for overseas audits, co-ordinating and reviewing information from the global service centre tax team and working with local finance teams and/or external advisers to ensure timely and effective responses to minimise audit adjustments and advisor fees.
• Supporting the Head of Tax on international tax matters related to international tax strategy and business changes.
• Working closely with the statutory accounts and tax teams in the global shared service centre to ensure that effective tax grouping and recapitalisation decisions are considered and executed on a timely basis each year.
• Business support on new country openings/appropriate holding entities.
• Tax review of any entity rationalisations.
• Responsibility for WHT management and optimisation.

Required Skills, Experience & Qualifications

Essential:

• Good understanding of international tax principles including in depth knowledge across a number of countries.
• Strong research skills and hands-on can-do attitude.
• Strong accounting skills.
• Strong organisational & administration skills.
• Ability to work independently, confidence to use own judgement & ability to react positively to complexity & change.
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English.

Preferred:

• In-house experience in a global organisation.
• Experience managing tax authority audits.

About the company

IWG has been at the forefront of flexible working for more than 30 years. With over 4,000 locations around the globe, spanning brands including Regus, Spaces, Signature and HQ, we have made it possible for businesses of all sizes to make the transition to hybrid working, empowering employees to work wherever and whenever is most convenient.

We help more than 8 million people and their businesses to work more productively, supported by a choice of professional, inspiring and collaborative workspaces, communities and services.

As the world’s leading provider of hybrid work solutions, with four times the number of locations compared to its nearest competitor, IWG is already working with over 80% of the Fortune 500 and counts businesses including Amazon, Netflix, EY and Uber amongst its customers.

Companies of all sizes are shifting to flexible working to lower costs, improve employee retention and lower their carbon emissions. The flexible workspace is expected to grow by 600% by 2023, when 30% of all office space will be hybrid. We are growing our network faster than ever to keep up with demand from customers as we work towards our goal of reaching 30,000 centres.

Carbon Neutral Workplaces

IWG’s purpose of helping everyone have a great day at work, while protecting people and the planet is at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to supply all of our customers worldwide with carbon neutral workplaces, and we have a strong climate action plan in place to help us achieve our objective of Net Zero emissions by 2040.

Leading Employer Award
IWG is proud to be the recipient of a Leading Employer Award in both 2022 and 2023. Awarded exclusively to the top 1% of employers, the accolade is testament to our diverse global workforce and the role everyone plays in bringing our purpose, culture and values to life, every single day.

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