Senior Corporate Tax Manager
At a glance
Senior Tax role at Costain Group. London.
Pay not stated Tax salary
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What you'll do
- Deliver corporate tax accounting and compliance work for the year end and half year, supporting the Group Tax Manager
- Prepare and file corporate tax returns, manage RDEC claims, and oversee group relief and corporate tax cash
- Record tax in group and subsidiary accounts, and prepare quarterly tax-rate and payment forecasts
- Map tax-return processes for SAO, answer HMRC questions, and attend meetings with HMRC
- Improve tax controls through better data capture and reporting, while contributing to finance and tax transformation
What you bring
- You hold an accounting qualification and have training in corporation tax
- You have practical experience completing and filing corporate tax returns
- You have worked on RDEC claims
Who this fits
This role suits a hands-on tax professional who can deliver project work and explain technical issues to colleagues without tax expertise. Construction-sector experience is preferred. You may need to travel to Costain sites around the UK.
From the employer
Supporting the Group Tax Manager, you will deliver the Corporate tax year end and half year accounting and compliance obligations of and advisory support for the Costain Group. The role will involve dealing with all aspects of Corporate Taxes within the UK based Costain Group. The role will also be pivotal in helping ensure that tax compliance is embedded across our systems and processes.
Prioritising CT actions & delivery, to realistic but challenging timeframes
Supporting transformation activity and the executive board agenda
Preparation of all Corporate Tax returns
Corporate tax cash management, Group relief and RDEC relief
Accounting for corporate tax in Group and subsidiary accounts (both half and full year for Group)
Manage RDEC process
Production of accurate quarterly forecasts of tax rates and tax payments on account
Managing adhoc queries
Process mapping CT returns in support of SAO
Responding to HMRC queries and attending HMRC meetings
Identifying opportunities to enhance processes & compliance by intelligent data capture and reporting
Inputting into finance and tax transformation activity including opportunities to improve through digitalization.
Supporting Initiatives such as entity rationalisation
Accounting qualification
Corporation tax trained
Practical experience of completing and filing corporate tax returns
Experience of RDEC claims
Excellent organization and communication skills
Experience in the construction sector is preferable
Good people skills with ability to engage on technical matters with non-technical staff
Must be willing to be hands on and capable of driving the delivery of project activity
Excellent organizer & communicator
May be required to travel to Costain sites across the UK
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