Description

This is an opportunity to take on a tax lead role in the UK branch (and international hub) of a large international banking group, overseeing a team of 3 people and sitting within the wider finance team. Your responsibility as Tax VP will be to ensure that the bank is compliant with all direct and indirect tax requirements as well as delivering on the global tax strategy and providing an advisory service to internal and external stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Review and update the Bank's tax policy and strategy for Board/Executive Management approval
• Ensure compliance with the Bank's tax policy and strategy
• Review/oversight of existing governance arrangements with respect to tax risk
• Further develop the tax risk register
• Manage the Bank's tax reporting and compliance, dealing with auditors and local tax authorities including tax disclosures for the UK Subsidiary's financial statements
• Manage the timely delivery of UK tax computations, including the branch capital attribution calculation
• Manage the calculation of tax payments on account
• Review and approve monthly tax calculations, take ownership of the balance sheet tax accounts
• Manage VAT compliance, ensuring timely submission of accurate VAT returns
• Review and approve the annual bank levy calculation
• Responsible for the annual DPT assessment
• Miscellaneous taxes - ATED, SDLT, CIS
• Ongoing review and consideration as to the reasonableness of current PESM
• Ongoing review and assessment of Transfer Pricing Risks and documentation of the methodology
• Main point of contact for transaction-related tax considerations and for external tax advisors
• Provide assistance with PAYE related issues
• Manage and mentor the tax reporting team

You will need to be a qualified tax specialist (ACA, ACCA, CTA) with extensive experience of corporate taxes, and ideally wider experience in VAT and transfer pricing. Candidates with prior experience in the Financial Services / Banking sector would also be advantaged. The successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate prior experience of managing and leading team.