Tax Manager UKI

JOB TITLE Tax Manager UKI

LOCATION Kingston Head Office

JOB PURPOSE

The UK and Ireland Tax Manager will support the Tax Senior Managers and Tax Director on all activities related to corporation tax matters for Unilever’s UK and Irish companies, including Unilever Plc. The role is a tax business partner role which involves building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders around the business.

Compliance work operates under an operating model whereby tax processes are performed across the local tax teams, UniOps in Bangalore and outsourced service providers (Big 4) combined.  Much of the non-judgemental tax data analysis work is undertaken by the UniOps team in Bangalore, with the UK tax team overlaying the tax technical judgements, whilst also managing and reviewing the work conducted by the outsourced service providers. 

The role requires the ability to manage and deliver multiple workstreams across varying timelines. Some of these workstreams include quarterly tax reporting; overseeing tax compliance undertaken by outsource service providers; preparing or reviewing tax technical pieces of work outside the scope of the outsourced service provider; tax forecasting; and compliance and liaison with HMRC on day-to-day matters, particularly in respect of residency certificates and double tax treaty withholding tax clearances.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Corporation tax business partnering

• Build and maintain relationships with various stakeholders (various finance teams, legal, company secretarial, third party outsourcers etc)
• Assist on the resolution of ad hoc queries and day-to-day issues raised by the business and provide relevant and practical advice promptly
• Collaborate with finance and project teams on various tax and commercial projects
• Support the finance and company secretarial teams in entity rationalisation projects

Corporation tax compliance and reporting

• Preparation of the Group quarterly tax provision calculations using Longview.
• Review local statutory accounts tax disclosures prepared by the outsourced provider.
• Oversee the preparation of the annual tax computations and returns by outsourced providers
• Assist in the preparation of out of scope work feeding into the tax computations such as chargeable gains calculations, deductibility of expenditure, RDEC and patent box calculations, and any necessary transfer pricing adjustments

• Collaborate with the Tax Senior Manager and the outsourced provider in performing the CFC review.
• Support the Tax Senior Manager and Director with the SAO review and controls
• WHT compliance – manage the process of obtaining a high volume of certificates of residency and other regulatory forms for overseas teams, as required, to benefit from double tax treaty reliefs and ensure inter-company payments/receipts can be made promptly.

UK and Ireland Group Tax Data

• Manage the Group Payment Arrangement and calculate corporation tax payments on account. Monitor and update the tax payment database. Liaise with HMRC and ROS on company tax balances, repayments, reallocations and any ad hoc queries.
• Calculate and prepare journals for annual prior year adjustments, along with charges for payment of group relief.
• Calculate cash tax forecasts, as requested by various stakeholders in the business.
• Perform tax balance sheet reviews to ensure prior year adjustments, payments to HMRC and charges for group relief are reflected correctly in each entity’s balance sheet.

ALL ABOUT YOU

• Qualified accountant (ACA/CA or equivalent) or tax adviser (CTA or equivalent)
• Strong proven ability and relevant years experience in a UK corporate tax department or audit background with 1+ years experience in a UK corporate tax department
• Strong tax accounting understanding (IFRS and FRS 101)
• Controls mindset, including risk management
• Excellent time and project management skills, including a strong bias for action
• Relationship building and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong Excel skills essential
  

NOTES

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’ 

Location

In June 2020 we announced our plan to consolidate a number of Unilever’s offices across the South East of England into a new Unilever campus in Kingston-upon-Thames in or around early 2025. However, on the 08 August 2024 we announced to our existing staff our proposal to retain our central Head Office in London, 100 Victoria Embankment (“100VE”) until our lease expires in 2027. As a result of this new proposal, we will be consulting with our existing staff, and new joiners who join during this period of consultation at 100VE, on the proposal made in August 2024. During consultation we will clarify the future location of each team and function. This means your role will either be based in 100VE until 2027 or in Kingston-Upon-Thames from early 2025. As we are yet to commence consultation on the proposal you agree, until such a time when consultation has concluded, your normal place of work as set out in the enclosed Statement of Terms & Conditions will be 100VE. You agree that on the conclusion of the consultation your place of work will be 100VE or 100VE until early 2025 and then Kingston-upon-Thames ("the locations") and you will be notified of which of the locations will be your place of work after that consultation ends.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.

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