Description

Job Type: Permanent



Location:
Wythall, Birmingham

This role could be based in either our Wythall or London offices with time spent working in the office and at home.

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Closing Date: 4th August 2024

Salary and benefits: £70,000 plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

Recruiter: Tim Singh

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a tax reporting manager to join our tax reporting team.

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 business that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role

We’re currently recruiting for a Corporate Tax Manager to join our Tax Reporting Team in Wythall (or London) to manage tax reporting within our group, support projects, and apply technical & business knowledge to aid senior management decision making.

The role will be responsible for:

• Managing the non-life UK tax reporting process for the group and statutory accounts and the group consolidation process. The non-life entities in the group comprise holding companies, companies providing financing to operating entities, service companies and small trading and investment companies;
• Managing the timetable and deliverables tracking for the quarterly reporting processes under UK GAAP, SII and IFRS.
• Dealing with audit enquiries in relation to the non-life entities and group consolidation process;
• Managing group-wide tax reporting requirements such as group relief;
• Supporting the Head of Tax Reporting on tax forecasting, payments on account and intra-group cashflow management
• Providing input into projects and support to the business on matters involving the above entities; and
• Working with and supporting the development of junior and less experienced members of the team

What are we looking for?

An individual who:

• Is motivated and dynamic individual with strong accounting, tax accounting and tax technical knowledge;
• Has strong interpersonal skills and an ability and desire to work collaboratively both within the tax team and the wider finance and business environment;
• Has strong excel and IT skills including a willingness and desire to learn new skills in this area e.g. Alteryx/Power BI;
• Has strong time management and organisational skills and the ability to deliver under pressure.
• A background that includes:
  • Undergraduate Degree (or equivalent)
  • Professional qualification in tax (e.g. CTA) or accountancy (e.g. CA, ACA or ACCA).
  • Significant (c.3-5) years experience in “large corporates” tax reporting environment, either in-house or in professional services firm auditing large corporates.
    
    

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

Find out more about #LifeAtPhoenix

• Guide for Candidates: thephoenixgroup.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates
• Find or get answers from our colleagues: www.thephoenixgroup.com/careers/talk-to-us
• Find out more about Phoenix Flex, our approach to flexible working, here: https://www.thephoenixgroup.com/careers/flexible-working/

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