Our client offers financing to private equity firms in Europe for leveraged transactions including buyouts, acquisitions, growth funding and recapitalisations. Its products and services include cash flow and asset-based financing, first and second line senior loans, global cross-border funding, lease financing, structured equity, and project financing. A key player in lead/arrange mid market transactions, it has recently built close links with several commercial partners.
Role Summary
The Tax Controller will have responsibility for multi-jurisdiction tax controllership, reporting and compliance responsibility for Acquisition Finance. The position reports to the Tax Manager of Acquisition Finance.
Essential Responsibilities
Reporting & Compliance:
- Responsibility for corporation tax and other local tax compliance & controllership
- Review monthly ETR and coordinate overall review with Acquisition Finance Tax Leader/HQ tax team
- Review quarterly tax account reconciliations
- Support Acquisition Finance team and Corporate Tax teams in income tax return preparation (France, UK, Germany and US)
- Prepare and maintain FAS109 (including deferred tax supporting documentation), FIN48 calculations and SOX 404 documentation (including local permanent control documentation)
- Review of Acquisition Finance statutory filings (including US GAAP to Stat walk and deferred taxes)
Tax FP&A processes:
- Manage tax FP&A process including co-ordination with Acquisition Finance/HQ finance and tax teams
- Lead tax planning sessions: Strategic Playbook, SII, Operating plan, etc.
- Ensure transactions and target tax attributes properly recorded
- Coordinate with treasury team to monitor cash position
Projects/ Initiatives:
- Simplify the legal entity structure while maintaining local and US tax compliance
- Coordinate cash management initiatives with Acquisition Finance/HQ treasury and tax teams
- Support European transfer pricing initiatives, build / maintain transfer pricing documentation, support computation of annual profit attribution and intra-group recharges
Qualifications/Requirements
- Controllership experience, preferably in a multinational environment (tax controllership experience preferred but not required)
- Chartered Accountant (or equivalent) with tax background preferred
- Strong financial, accounting and analysis skills, with experience preparing financial/tax statements and reports
- Strong communication skills, ability to present complex structures in a simple fashion and to report to senior management
Strong process focus, passion for simplification and process improvement
- Ability to partner with and support other functions (e.g. tax, controllership, FP&A, pricing, sales, legal)
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Pure Taxation was established in 1999 as part of the Pure Recruitment Group. Rather than imitate existing providers of tax recruitment consultancy, we sought to create a new methodology based on quality, relationships and integrity. Since then, Pure Taxation has become market leader in the UK because of our approach to recruitment and the excellence of our experienced consultants, making us a profitable business every year since inception.
Our current team comprises of 16 specialist consultants in London and Hong Kong focusing on permanent tax recruitment in the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions, three specialists in interim tax recruitment and four dedicated support and research staff, making us the largest dedicated tax recruiter in the UK.
