Tax Advisor
Role Overview
Individual-contributor tax role supporting the group tax function across direct and indirect taxes, with primary technical strength in VAT and other indirect taxes.
The role covers group-wide work across multiple jurisdictions and is not limited to VAT compliance.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role summary
Individual-contributor tax role supporting the group tax function across direct and indirect taxes, with primary technical strength in VAT and other indirect taxes.
The role covers group-wide work across multiple jurisdictions and is not limited to VAT compliance.
Tax compliance and advisory
- Prepare VAT returns, reconciliations, supporting schedules, filing packs, and payment instructions.
- Research routine tax queries across VAT, corporate tax, withholding tax, treaties, intercompany charges, contracts, invoices, and payment flows.
- Maintain compliance calendars and trackers, monitor deadlines, and escalate risks or missing information.
- Support corporate tax registrations, return packs, computations, payments, reconciliations, tax provisions, and reporting schedules.
- Support transfer pricing, FATCA/CRS, Country-by-Country Reporting, and Pillar Two/GloBE readiness.
- Provide tax input for new entities, transactions, investments, and entry into new jurisdictions.
- Coordinate with internal teams, advisers, auditors, and tax authorities; support audits and information requests.
- Support e-invoicing and tax technology implementation, testing, controls, and process improvements.
- Maintain complete, accurate, audit-ready tax files, working papers, approvals, correspondence, and evidence.
Experience and qualifications
- Approximately six years of progressive tax compliance and advisory experience in a multinational business, professional services firm, or both.
- Strong practical VAT experience, including returns, transaction analysis, reconciliations, registrations, audits, and advisory support.
- Working knowledge of corporate tax compliance and tax accounting, with exposure to transfer pricing and international tax reporting.
- Experience coordinating multiple entities, jurisdictions, deadlines, and stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, Economics, Law, or a related discipline.
- A tax or accounting qualification, or progress toward one (such as ACCA, ACA, CPA, CTA, or equivalent), is preferred; Big Four experience is preferred.
Skills and competencies
- Advanced VAT and indirect tax knowledge, including cross-border transactions, contracts, and invoices.
- Understanding of corporate tax, tax accounting, transfer pricing, FATCA/CRS, Country-by-Country Reporting, and Pillar Two concepts.
- Strong Excel and data analysis skills, including reconciliations and review of general ledger, trial balance, and financial statement information.
- Fluent business English; additional languages are an advantage.
- Clear communication, organization, documentation, project management, attention to detail, research, judgment, and deadline management.
- Ownership, accuracy, collaboration, commercial awareness, confidentiality, and continuous improvement.
Department overview
The tax department leads group tax strategy, compliance, and planning across jurisdictions, including corporate tax, VAT, transfer pricing, and cross-border structuring.
It manages tax risk and reporting, advises on business decisions and investments, and liaises with authorities, advisers, and internal teams.
Employment
- Permanent, full-time role.
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