Tax Accountant

Job description / Role

This role is to identify and address tax opportunities and risks, monitor tax attributes, oversee tax compliance obligations around the world and develop and implement the overall tax strategy. The Tax Accountant will support the Manager Global Tax in the end - to - end tax compliance, and information reporting oversight (tax calculations, filings and payments).

- Prepare and / or review tax calculations, tax returns, disclosure filings, and tax payments including UAE and non - UAE VAT filings.
- Oversee setup of compliance activities for new investments.
- Oversee the compliance relationship with external providers and regularly liaise with compliance providers to ensure filings and payments are accurate, and are made on time.
- Reconcile and confirm filings and payments to ensure internal records match tax authority records
and notices.
- Regularly test and report on the tax attributes of investments.
- Manage the withholding tax reclaim, and relief at source process, including liaising with custodians to ensure all required documentation is up to date and on file.
- Maintain and coordinate update of relevant inter - company transfer pricing documentation, and financing documentation.
- Collate and coordinate provision of tax accruals, and other tax related information as required for group quarterly reporting purposes.
- Coordinate worldwide information reporting requirements, e.g. CRS, and U.S. (chapter 3, and chapter 4) reporting.
- Monitor international tax developments, and suggest ways to address changes in law.
- Conduct necessary research in order to support senior colleagues in providing advice on transactional tax matters based on sound analysis, and to support the decision - making of global transactions, financing / refinancing, mergers, operational changes and expansions, etc.
- Assist the Manager Global Tax in developing overall tax strategy, and processes.
- Carry out other similar or related duties as assigned.

Requirements

EXPERIENCE

- University Degree, preferably in Accounting, Business, or a related field (required)
- M.A. in Taxation, and/or CPA/CA (highly desirable)
- As a minimum approx. three (3) to five (5) years of relevant tax reporting, compliance and planning experience from an asset manager with a global portfolio of investments, or equivalent experience with a "Big 4" accounting firm (required).
- Experience in financial statutory accounting and reporting under IFRS standards, particularly for income taxes (required).
- U.S. information reporting and tax experience (highly desirable).
- Understanding of asset management organizations and different asset classes (ideally traditional and alternatives) (highly desirable)

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

About the Company

Established in 1987, McGregor Boyall is a global recruitment consultancy providing permanent and contract / interim professionals across a wide variety of disciplines including Technology, Risk, Finance, Compliance, Legal, Marketing and HR & Talent Management. Since our inception, we have built an unrivalled reputation for helping organisations recruit the very best talent to ensure that they realise their business and operational objectives.

Headquartered in the city of London, and with further offices throughout the UK (Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Glasgow) as well as globally in Dubai and Singapore, we are able to offer recruitment solutions throughout the UK & Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific regions.