Senior Corporate Tax Accountant responsible for preparing global tax provisions, ensuring compliance, and driving continuous improvement across multi‑country engagements.
Responsibilities
- Assist in the preparation and review of interim, quarterly, and year‑end global tax provisions under IFRS and US GAAP.
- Support tax reporting deliverables received from controllers and tax managers across the Group.
- Contribute to US GAAP and IFRS disclosure preparation, including reconciliation of GAAP differences.
- Prepare and maintain tax provision memoranda and supporting documentation.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, including SOX documentation and audit processes.
- Identify and support implementation of process improvements in tax provision and compliance functions.
- Prepare tax account reconciliations and related schedules.
- Help drive efficiencies on client’s or EY’s processes, designing and implementing simple solutions to complex processes and leveraging standardisation, centralisation and technology.
- Contribute to continuous improvement in tax reporting processes through design, control and operational enhancements.
- Assist in mentoring and developing junior staff on ASC 740, IAS 12 and other key tax concepts.
- Collaborate with internal tax, accounting and finance teams as well as external service providers.
Qualifications
- Broad and deep corporate tax compliance experience.
- Understanding of ASC 740 and IAS 12 frameworks.
- Corporate income tax experience in any country or countries.
- Strong communication skills and experience working with multi‑country teams.
- Ability to distil complex concepts into clear, actionable insights.
- Organised and able to deliver tax accounting within short time‑frames.
- Experience supporting and developing junior staff.
- Problem‑solving capabilities and process improvement mindset.
- Ability to manage time to deliver quality output.
- Degree qualified.
- 3+ years of experience in corporate tax and withholding tax.
- Experience working in direct tax accounting, in professional services or industry.
- Understanding of the tax reporting process, balance‑sheet reconciliation process, and basic direct tax compliance review.
- Good understanding of deferred tax concepts.
- Good experience in tax accounting packages and strong Excel skills.
- Agile to the changing client environment and able to provide quality deliverables under tight timelines.
- Experience providing tax services to a portfolio of clients.
Proactive and able to identify opportunities for business development.- Team player with the ability to add value to the current team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines and monitor own workload.
- Experience working with teams across multiple jurisdictions.
- Experience in process and technology design (beneficial but not mandatory).
- Tax transformation/compliance process improvement experience.
- Experience rolled out and/or implementing tax technology.
- Accounting qualification and/or tax qualification (ACA/CA/ACCA/CTA).
