Senior Tax Manager

at  FICO

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!
The Opportunity
“The role holder will be a UK tax expert whose responsibilities include compliance and reporting for the FICO UK businesses and for identifying, evaluating, and implementing UK tax planning opportunities (while maintaining consistency with FICO global tax principles, policies, and strategies) and for optimizing the tax reporting processes.” - Senior Director, Tax.

What You’ll Do

• Prepare Corporation Tax returns and quarterly and annual reporting.
• Related income tax compliance and reporting, e.g., Diverted Profit Tax, Transfer Pricing, International Movement of Capital, Controlled Foreign Corporation, etc.
• Tax Reporting for audited UK Financial Statements.
• Monitor impacts and opportunities of tax legislation changes upon FICO’s operations in the UK.
• Identify business and tax risks to ensure tax compliance.
• Identify and implement local tax planning opportunities ensuring that appropriate tax reliefs are obtained to reduce taxes paid (with alignment and approval from Global Tax) while maintaining consistency with FICO’s global tax principles, policies and strategies and published UK Tax Strategy.
• Group tax planning – executes UK aspects of group tax planning projects and initiatives.
• Funding/repatriation – collaborates effectively with local and Global treasury to provide tax advice of proposed funding and repatriation of funds from legal entities.
• Develop/maintains relationship with external tax advisors and business units optimizing the efficiency of income tax compliance.

What We’re Seeking

• Professional degree, Chartered Accountant certification and/or Chartered Tax certification with extensive work experience with UK corporate tax issues and concepts.
• The job holder will need to be able to learn and understand complex technical issues quickly and have strong interpersonal skills to manage relationships and communicate with associates at all levels across the business.
• Able to combine UK tax functional knowledge and business acumen to give practical UK tax advice and navigate complex challenges.
• Experience of Financial Control and Accounting will be helpful.

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

Why Make a Move to FICO?
At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics. You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

• Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.
• Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.
• Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career. Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!
Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at
www.fico.com/Careers
FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.
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• Prepare Corporation Tax returns and quarterly and annual reporting.
• Related income tax compliance and reporting, e.g., Diverted Profit Tax, Transfer Pricing, International Movement of Capital, Controlled Foreign Corporation, etc.
• Tax Reporting for audited UK Financial Statements.
• Monitor impacts and opportunities of tax legislation changes upon FICO’s operations in the UK.
• Identify business and tax risks to ensure tax compliance.
• Identify and implement local tax planning opportunities ensuring that appropriate tax reliefs are obtained to reduce taxes paid (with alignment and approval from Global Tax) while maintaining consistency with FICO’s global tax principles, policies and strategies and published UK Tax Strategy.
• Group tax planning – executes UK aspects of group tax planning projects and initiatives.
• Funding/repatriation – collaborates effectively with local and Global treasury to provide tax advice of proposed funding and repatriation of funds from legal entities.
• Develop/maintains relationship with external tax advisors and business units optimizing the efficiency of income tax compliance