Job Description

The primary responsibilities of this role are set out below. You should be flexible and willing to undertake additional responsibilities and assist the tax department:

• Support the broking and consulting teams to achieve their business goals by synchronizing the tax advice with business objectives.
• Provide written VAT(Value-added tax) advice to UK and international projects.
• Provide regular VAT advice on day-to-day business.
• Project management – coordinate meetings with external and internal resources, track schedules, prepare slides, reports, and other documents.
• Manage registrations and digital compliance of UK companies providing e-services to overseas clients.
• Coordinate the tax aspects of accounting and broking system upgrades and integration of newly acquired business.
• Providing advice and managing the communications – prior experience is not essential.
• Initiate tax planning projects in collaboration with business managers to mitigate VAT cost.
• Provide cross coverage for VAT compliance.
• Review contracts, bids, tenders and provide clear written tax advice to the business.
• Provide VAT advice on transfer pricing policy with a view to minimize additional VAT cost.
• Engage in tax controversy and audit defense support.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and research skills
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills
• Proactively embrace technology to enhance and improve all aspects of the indirect tax function
• Excellent project management skills, including ability to organize files, project plans, data, etc.
• Ability to effectively communicate indirect tax concepts and to collaborate outside of the indirect tax function 
• General knowledge of key indirect tax related developments
• Good knowledge of emerging case law relating to indirect tax