Indirect Tax Manager

My client is a top 20 law firm.

Their London office has first rate working conditions in river fronted offices and they offer one of the best benefits packages in the UK.

This is a permanent International Indirect Tax Manager role within the Partnership Services team. This role will allow a dedicated resource for Partners and billing teams to help resolve billing queries and to provide advice and training in order to develop and implement policies globally for indirect taxes.

Responsibilities

• Assist Partners and billing teams globally to ensure matters are set up correctly at inception, taking account of relevant indirect tax issues and identifying the correct client and billing office in our global billing system.

• Create more definition around billing procedures generally (documentation and support) and help implement stronger controls and governance over the billing process generally.

• Periodically review VAT reconciliations globally to ensure that the most appropriate treatment is being applied to all categories of income and expenditure.

• Maintain and control cross-border arrangements and ensure appropriate processes and documentation exists.

• Develop a strong relationship with VAT Indirect Tax advisers globally, both internal and external to the firm.

• Work with office finance teams globally to ensure that accounting for VAT / GST etc. is being controlled correctly and also assisting office finance teams to ensure that reconciliations are performed locally between local statutory accounting systems and the firms-wide based system.

• Ensure that cross-border billing policies are regularly reviewed and updated / enhanced as required.

• Provide training and support materials to billing teams generally to ensure that the firm's policies are thoroughly understood and implemented.

• Assist in adapting the firm's accounting systems as required to cope with tax law changes or changes in practice; work with systems teams and local offices when local solutions are required.

• Develop a strategy for monitoring indirect tax compliance generally, including building links with internal audit and the core accounting operations.

Essential Skills

• An accounting qualification e.g. ACCA or ACA (or equivalent).

• Experience of indirect taxes such as VAT, GST and equivalent.

• Experience of project management.

• Significant experience working with accounting systems.

• Understanding of billing systems within an international group, preferably with a services background (rather than goods).

• Strong interest in the technical side of global indirect taxes required.

• Ability to keep up to date with technical updates and changes in legislation and recognising when this might affect the firm.

Important Notice

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Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanent vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.