Group Corporate Tax Manager

Job description

We are the world's largest university press. We have both a worldwide reach and a personal understanding of local needs, partnering on the ground to adapt publications and resources to meet the individual needs of communities, societies, and countries. We partner with researchers, educators, and technology partners to stay ahead of the changing ways people around the world are accessing and sharing knowledge. With a presence in more than 50 countries and millions of customers around the world, an idea launched at OUP can have global impact.

About the Role

As our new Corporate Tax Manager, you will manage OUP's Group corporate tax affairs to create, protect and optimise value in the context of OUP's global charitable business objectives; manage tax related risks (including reputational) from carrying on business; and ensure global compliance with tax laws and reporting requirements. Reporting to the Group Tax Director, you will be allocated a portfolio of jurisdictions together with UK/Group responsibilities.

Other duties will include:

1. Business activity:

Provide practical, technical advice (covering all applicable taxes) to divisional finance teams and overseas branches/subsidiaries on how to structure business initiatives (both in UK and overseas), including sales arrangements and appropriate corporate structures that enable business to be carried out. Work with other specialists (legal, HR, VAT, external advisers) as necessary. As required, provide tax input to acquisitions, disposals, or restructuring of group businesses.

2. Compliance:

• Ensure that all group businesses comply with local tax requirements, including utilising an online tracking tool where relevant, and act in a way that is consistent with protecting the name and reputation of OUP.
• Assist with group transfer pricing including commissioning benchmarking studies or advance clearance projects if required.
• Manage the preparation of UK subsidiaries' corporation tax returns, non-resident return for India and the US Form 990. OUP's own UK return is submitted as part of the wider University; subsidiaries' are submitted direct to HMRC. Subsequently dealing with resulting queries.
• Collate global data on a bottom-up basis to prepare and submit CbCR annually.

3. Reporting:

Manage the group's monthly and annual tax reporting cycle and report to Tax Director on effective tax rates, variances and development of issues. Prepare the group tax proof and handle auditor queries as appropriate. Investigate and implement process improvements to automate tax proof.

4. Tax risks:

Assist with monitoring the chief tax risks worldwide, along with proposals for their evaluation and mitigation and manage major tax issues in conjunction with local management, ensuring that any significant litigation or dialogue with tax authorities is managed to provide optimal outcomes.

5. Tax issues:

Assist with the management of significant tax issues arising in the UK and the Group, in conjunction with local Finance Directors, balancing legislative with commercial needs.

6. External Advisers:

Interact with UK/Group tax advisers and auditors (currently PwC, Deloitte) to ensure that their needs are met and that their services are used in a cost-effective way.

7. OUP Group Tax strategy:

Reporting to the Group Tax Director, implement the relevant elements of the agreed tax strategy. Input to tax reports for Group Audit Committee.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

• UK tax qualified (preferably Chartered Institute of Taxation).
• Qualified accountant.
• Subject matter expert in UK tax and awareness of international taxation (tax treaties, transfer pricing etc).
• Expertise in (or willing to acquire relevant in-depth knowledge of) the taxation of UK charities is desirable.
• Strong communication skills - able to communicate strong financial concepts to non-financial people.
• Strong intellect - able to deal confidently with challenging people and situations. Resilient - able to stand ground whilst maintaining working relationships.
• Strong business understanding and commercial awareness.
• Able to utilise effectively internal and external resources to achieve objectives.

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with the added benefit of private medical insurance and a discretionary annual management bonus.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact [email protected] with any queries relating to this role.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.