Group Tax Accountant

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a recently qualified candidate with a background in corporate tax to join Inizio's Group Tax function. The successful candidate should be tax-qualified with a minimum of 3 years' experience in a corporate tax environment.

Reporting to the Group Tax Manager, the Group Tax Accountant will provide support for managing the direct and indirect tax planning and compliance across several regions globally, including working closely with our Finance functions and external advisers. This is an ideal role for a candidate wishing to develop their career in tax while gaining exposure to a commercially focused tax function.

This is a permanent role, based in our central London office on Chancery Lane. We are offering a hybrid-working arrangement, which we hope supports a healthy work-life balance by creating more flexibility to meet work and personal commitments.

Key Responsibilities

• Corporate Tax Compliance: ownership for accurate and timely preparation of corporate tax returns and supporting computations across a number of group companies.
• Tax Accounting: preparation of current and deferred tax calculations for interim and year-end provisioning purposes, including forecasting and analysis of cash taxes and effective tax rates. Liaising with finance teams and external auditors on tax-related audit matters.
• Projects: support the customisation and configuration of finance systems to optimise tax reporting and preparation for Pillar 2 compliance; support process improvements within the tax team; assist with group restructuring, M&A and ad hoc tax projects.
• Maintaining excellent relationships across our finance teams and external advisors and partnering with our businesses to provide commercially focused tax advice.
• Keeping up to date with legislative developments and ensuring implications of changes both domestically and in the international tax arena are addressed appropriately.

What you bring to the role

• Tax qualified with a minimum of 3 years' experience in a corporate tax environment.
• Proven record of achievement and highly motivated with ambitions to succeed.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with tight reporting deadlines, and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Flexible and adaptable team player, demonstrating the ability to quickly grasp new skills.
• Strong IT skills (particularly Excel) and experience working with corporate tax compliance software.
• Excellent knowledge of IFRS accounting and IAS12.
• Experience with tax transfer pricing in a multinational enterprise (MNE) environment and exposure to overseas taxes is an advantage.

Qualifications

• CIOT qualification is preferred. Candidates with equivalent experience or other relevant tax qualifications are encouraged to apply.
• ACA or equivalent qualification with a strong practical tax background is required, preferably from a top 10 accounting practice background.

About us

We help our clients navigate their clinical development and commercialization journey by connecting the best scientific knowledge, market intelligence, actionable data, technology, communication, and creative execution.

With a global presence and multiple career paths, the career possibilities are expanding at Inizio. We're a growing global team of 11,700 - a $1.5bn revenue business working with the world's leading health and life sciences businesses, and we have exciting growth plans. Whoever and wherever you are, we'll empower you with the autonomy you need to experiment, learn, and grow. We'll make sure that you feel valued, supported and, of course, because we're helping our clients to transform healthcare and improve millions of lives you can feel pride in your work at Inizio.

Our Pledge

At Inizio, we value inclusivity, recognize the power of diversity, and inspire the next generation of change-makers. We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in creating a work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strive to recruit from a diverse slate of candidates and foster an environment that provides the right conditions for long-term success. We welcome all applications regardless of race, colour, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation and physical or mental disability.

Package and benefits

• Great compensation package
• Annual bonus scheme
• Company pension plan
• Private health insurance
• Life assurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Group Income Protection
• 25 days annual leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye Tests and Flu Vaccinations
• 3 volunteering days per year

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Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.