Tax Reporting Advisor

A top law firm are looking for a Tax Reporting Advisor to join a highly skilled Tax & Partner Finance team within a large, complex professional services environment. This role offers broad exposure to UK partnership tax, international structures, tax processes and controls, and finance transformation initiatives. This role will also look at some international work too.

The successful candidate will work closely with senior stakeholders, external advisors and global offices, playing a key role in compliance, reporting, modelling and process improvement.

Key Responsibilities

UK Tax Compliance

• Prepare UK partnership tax computations for large, complex partnerships.
• Analyse disallowable expenditure and identify applicable tax reliefs, allowances and deductions (including capital allowances).
• Apply and review tax rules underpinning a Machine Learning tool used to analyse tax disallowable expenditure.
• Work with external advisors to maintain and enhance tax technology solutions, including annual rule reviews.
• Prepare detailed schedules for UK Partnership Tax Returns, including allocation of:
• Trading profits
• Dividends
• Untaxed interest
• Gift Aid contributions
• Overseas permanent establishment income
• Calculate jurisdiction-specific remuneration adjustments for partners.
• Support Corporation Tax compliance for a UK service company, including coordination with external advisors.
• Deliver other UK tax compliance work as required.

Year-End & Financial Reporting

• Support the year-end process, including:
• Allocation of accounting profits by jurisdiction
• Calculation of partner tax reserves

Modelling & Analysis

• Develop and maintain financial and tax models in collaboration with senior finance leadership, including:
• Firm-wide funding
• Structural tax changes
• Profit allocation
• Inter-entity profit flows
• Effective tax rate forecasting

Tax Processes & Controls

• Support the selection and implementation of technology solutions to improve efficiency and control.
• Draft and maintain:
• Roles & responsibilities matrices for the global tax function
• Risk and controls matrices for direct and indirect taxes
• Maintain process documentation and perform annual controls testing.
• Provide support during tax authority enquiries, internal audits or reviews.

Tax Reserves

• Develop, maintain and reconcile detailed tax records and ledgers.
• Produce annual tax reserve statements for partners.
• Perform monthly reconciliations of tax payment ledgers and coordinate quarterly inter-office settlements.
• Support the review of historic tax reserves across multiple jurisdictions.
• Assist in developing tax reserving processes for international partners.

Additional Responsibilities

• Manage the annual budget process for the Tax & Partner Finance team.
• Prepare the Senior Accounting Officer report for the CFO.
• Provide ad hoc support on tax and finance initiatives.
• Contribute to a wide range of tax projects as they arise.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Minimum four years' experience in a tax or finance role within a large partnership or corporate environment.
• Essential initial qualification in tax or accounting (e.g. ATT, ACA, ACCA).
• Higher tax qualification preferred (CTA, ADIT, or MSc/Masters in Tax); candidates without a higher qualification will be expected to pursue one.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and double-entry bookkeeping.
• Advanced Excel skills.

Key Competencies

• Personal leadership and accountability
• Strong relationship-building skills
• Collaborative and team-oriented approach
• Commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes
• Client-focused mindset

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