Head of Tax

A industry leading consultancy firm is looking to add a Tax Specialist to lead all their UK and overseas operations; managing internal and external relationships.

Following a period of domestic and overseas expansion, the Head of Tax will support the CFO and take a lead on managing relationships at home and abroad with tax and audit advisors covering existing and new geographies.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the Group's relationship with HMRC in all regards.
• Ensure technical tax accuracy in the Group's overseas operations, including dealing with tax authorities and local tax partners, and ensure the Group's structure is tax efficient at all times. A particular focus will be on ensuring transfer pricing and withholding tax positions are appropriate in all markets.
• Lead engagement with Audit firms for all UK and Group audits, statutory accounts, and corporation tax, including managing data provision for audit queries.
• Manage EU audit, statutory audit, and corporation tax processes with the same level of involvement as UK audits.
• Liaise with Banks during audits of the Group's invoice debt facility.
• Deliver other international audit, tax, and compliance requirements as they arise.
• Conduct supply chain legitimacy checks to ensure trading partners are VAT registered and invoicing correctly.

The ideal candidate will come from a Tax background, or working in a Technical Accounting role with a specialism in Tax.

Ideally qualified, CTA, ACCA or ACA.

This is a fantastic opportunity to own all activies across Tax, in a high profile role within a growing, international business.

Based in Lancashire, the company offers a hybrid working policy.