Tax analyst

Description

Tax Analyst

Location: Oxford Science Park, Oxford

Working Arrangements: Hybrid (3 days in the office)

The Role

We have an opportunity for a motivated, inquisitive and detail-oriented Junior Tax Analyst to join our tax team. As a Tax Analyst, you will support the tax team across a broad range of UK and international tax matters, with a primary focus on tax reporting, compliance, data analysis and operational tax processes, alongside opportunities to support advisory and project work. The role is hands-on and deadline-driven, reflecting statutory reporting and tax requirements. Whilst predominantly direct tax focused, you will also support indirect tax matters, enabling you to build a broad, well-rounded and commercially relevant tax skillset. The role is ideal for an early-career tax professional looking to develop their tax technical expertise and experience across tax disciplines. Working closely with experienced tax professionals across the team, you will work in a collaborative team environment and benefit from regular guidance, mentoring and support. Our tax function is evolving to meet the challenges of a fast-paced, dynamic and growing international business whilst strengthening capabilities in response to increasing governance, compliance and control requirements. As a result, this role offers an exciting opportunity to develop alongside the business, gaining greater exposure to increasingly complex tax matters and taking on greater responsibility as your career progresses.

Key Responsibilities:

Direct Tax

• Assist with gathering and preparing data required for global corporate tax returns and other direct tax filings (such as withholding tax returns), liaising with the finance team.
• Maintain the global compliance calendar to ensure all filing, payment and other regulatory obligations are met on time.
• Assist with the preparation of the UK R&D tax credit claim, including extracting and analysing data from finance systems.
• Support the roll forward, preparation and standardisation of interim and year-end tax reporting calculations.
• Assist with Transfer Pricing compliance, such as documentation and quarterly calculation reviews.

Indirect Tax

• Assist with the preparation of periodic indirect tax returns, both UK and international.
• Produce, analyse and validate data to support the monthly US sales tax returns and other indirect tax compliance, including the EU EC Sales List, One Stop Shop and Intrastat filings.
• Verify and maintain customer sales tax exemption certificates.

General Tax Team Support

• Prepare tax-related forms and apply for HMRC Certificates of Residence and Certificates of Compliance.
• Assist with tax authority correspondence, including drafting responses, preparing supporting information and liaising with tax authorities where required.
• Ensure timely processing of tax payments and refunds, liaising with the Treasury and Finance teams.
• Prepare draft tax journals and tax-related balance sheet reconciliations.
• Perform quarterly reviews of US state tax portals, ensuring consistency with tax-related balance sheet reconciliations.
• Raise and monitor purchase requisitions and purchase orders.
• Maintain tax fee trackers, monitoring invoices against agreed budgets and approved purchase orders to ensure accurate cost control and timely processing.
• Monitor the tax team’s shared email inbox and physical post, responding to or redirecting correspondence as appropriate.
• Maintain organised and up-to-date tax records.
• Contribute ideas to reduce manual work and improve tax processes and efficiency, including the use of technology.
• Assist with ad-hoc tax, treasury and finance projects as required.

What We're Looking For:

Qualifications

Essential GCSE (or equivalent) Maths and English.

Desirable Degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax or a related discipline. Part-qualified, or actively studying towards a professional qualification (ATT/ACA/CTA or equivalent).

Experience

Essential Proven interest or experience in tax, either in practice, in-house or at HMRC. 1-2 years’ experience working within a finance team.

Desirable 2-3 years’ experience in a tax role, either in practice, in-house or at HMRC. Direct tax compliance experience. Indirect tax experience. Experience working with listed or multinational businesses. Experience preparing UK R&D tax credit claims. Experience of Transfer Pricing documentation or compliance. Exposure to tax accounting and reporting. Experience using tax compliance or ERP systems (e.g. OneSource, D365).

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential Excellent organisational and time-management skills. Strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy. Good analytical and problem-solving skills. Proficient with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Strong numeracy skills. Communicates effectively with colleagues. Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion.

Desirable Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to take, and document, a logical and methodical approach to tasks.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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