Tax Governance & Compliance Lead – Corporate Finance

🔥 21 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £61k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Canal & River Trust

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🤲 Charity

Charity

Canal & River Trust is the UK’s largest canal charity that cares for and brings to life 2,000 miles of canals and rivers across England and Wales. The charity manages waterways infrastructure (including dredging, vegetation management, moorings and boating licences), delivers waterside regeneration and restoration projects, and works with volunteers and local communities to improve heritage sites, public access and wellbeing. Its mission emphasizes the environmental, social and health benefits of time spent by water, alongside fundraising, community engagement and practical engineering and maintenance work to keep waterways safe, accessible and attractive.

📋 Description

• Report to the Head of Corporate Finance • Implement and maintain taxation governance and compliance arrangements across the Trust and its subsidiaries • Provide direction and influence across the Trust as the authority on direct taxation matters • Act as key contact with external tax advisors and HMRC • Deputise for the Head of Corporate Finance as required • Manage corporation tax compliance and reporting, including preparation and submission of tax packs and year-end corporation tax and income tax computations and disclosures • Liaise with tax advisors, auditors, and Trust and external stakeholders • Provide tax advisory services across the Group, including leading on unusual and complex direct, indirect, and employment tax issues • Manage tax-related accounting entries for corporation tax, gift aid, deferred tax, and statutory-account disclosures • Advise internal stakeholders on group corporation tax planning and gift aid payments • Lead on tax and NIC treatment of employee earnings, benefits, expenses, and off-payroll workers • Maintain the taxation governance framework and documentation, including the taxation risk register • Deliver actions allocated or delegated through the taxation governance documentation

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified accountant and/or Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA/ATT), with suitable up-to-date knowledge of taxation matters • Experience of working in an accountancy practice and/or within the taxation function of a company or organisation • Taxation experience of large and complex organisations • Ability to understand key objectives and take personal responsibility • Confidence and ability to use initiative to develop solutions • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Ability to explain complex financial information across the organisation • Excellent Microsoft Excel skills, including lookups and pivot tables • Desirable: experience working under Charities SORP reporting standards • Desirable: experience in a continuous improvement environment using lean techniques • Desirable: proficiency in SAP FI module • Desirable: experience of taxation of properties

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunities for progression • Competitive pension scheme • Increasing holiday entitlement • Range of employee benefits • Part-time, flexible, or job share arrangements considered • Primarily home-based working • Occasional travel to Trust locations and meetings as required