Sr Tax Accountant

Aptean; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an EMEA Tax Consultant, where you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring tax compliance across various European entities. This hands-on position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment, tackling diverse tax topics and enhancing processes as the organization grows. If you have a strong accounting background, excellent analytical skills, and a commitment to accuracy, this role is perfect for you. Embrace the chance to make a significant impact in a rapidly expanding private equity-backed group, where your contributions will be valued and celebrated.

Qualifications

• 5-6 years of experience in tax consulting with a strong understanding of European tax.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Assist with preparation of year-end tax returns and ensure compliance across multiple EMEA countries.
• Supervise VAT returns and handle compliance queries efficiently.

Skills

Technical accounting principles

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Change management

Education

Recognized accounting qualification (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)

Tools

Tax engine software

E-invoicing software

Job description

Overview

Tax Consultant

About the role

Aptean is looking for an EMEA Tax Consultant (5-6 years of experience). This is a hands-on role with a broad scope, assisting with the timely and compliant filing of direct and indirect tax returns for a portfolio of EMEA entities in a fast-paced rapidly growing private equity backed group. This role requires someone comfortable in a dynamic environment with a keen eye on process improvements and efficiencies as the Aptean group continues to grow through acquisition. As well as overseeing day-to-day compliance, there is broad scope for exposure to a broad range of tax topics across Europe.

Responsibilities:

• Assistance with preparation of year-end tax returns, coordinating with local advisors to ensure tax compliance in UK, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Poland, Ireland, Italy, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Spain, Finland, and Sweden.
• Calculating and submitting advance tax payments across the above countries.
• Supervising the filing of VAT returns for all countries noted above, dealing with any external and internal queries, ensuring compliance.
• Assisting with any ad-hoc tax compliance issues, researching with advisors and coordinating with internal teams any changes in processes required.
• R&D claims.
• Ensuring transfer pricing calculations are accurate, coordinating with internal teams if revisions to calculation are required.
• Submitting Tax residency certificates across EMEA.
• Assist with EMEA accounting and reconciliations of tax accounts.
• Assist with year-end global provision for consolidated group audit under US GAAP.
• Assist with implementation of tax engine and e-invoicing software to ensure compliance with the European Commission’s VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA) proposal.
• Assist with dealing with the impact of BEPS 2.0: Pillar One and Pillar Two on the group.

Skills & Experience:

• A secure knowledge of technical accounting principles backed by a recognized professional accountancy qualification.
• The position requires a high level of commitment and the ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• A disciplined self-starter with a ‘can do’ attitude who is able to work within a matrix organization.
• Must have a critical eye for accuracy, data integrity, process issues, and improvements.
• A flexible and adaptable mindset, experienced in change management and calm in the face of pressure.
• Excellent analytical skills including the ability to analyze large and complex datasets in order to summarize in a simple, effective way.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication (written and oral) skills.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Required: Solid understanding of accounting standards, experience working in tax department, commerce preferred, but practice considered. Would need experience of tax across Europe – not required to tick every country we operate in, but experience required of dealing with taxes outside of just UK.
• Preferred: accounting/finance experience in a global software industry.
• Recognized accounting qualification (CIMA, ACA, ACCA).

If you share our mindset, you can share in our success. To find out more about joining Aptean, get in touch today.

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