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JOB PURPOSE

The UK and Ireland Tax Manager will support the Tax Senior Managers and Tax Director on all activities related to corporation tax matters for Unilever’s UK and Irish companies, including Unilever Plc. The role is a tax business partner role which involves building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders around the business.
Compliance work operates under an operating model whereby tax processes are performed across the local tax teams, UniOps in Bangalore and outsourced service providers (Big 4) combined. Much of the non-judgemental tax data analysis work is undertaken by the UniOps team in Bangalore, with the UK tax team overlaying the tax technical judgements, whilst also managing and reviewing the work conducted by the outsourced service providers.
The role requires the ability to manage and deliver multiple workstreams across varying timelines. Some of these workstreams include quarterly tax reporting; overseeing tax compliance undertaken by outsource service providers; preparing or reviewing tax technical pieces of work outside the scope of the outsourced service provider; tax forecasting; and compliance and liaison with HMRC on day-to-day matters, particularly in respect of residency certificates and double tax treaty withholding tax clearances.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Corporation tax business partnering

• Build and maintain relationships with various stakeholders (various finance teams, legal, company secretarial, third party outsourcers etc)
• Assist on the resolution of ad hoc queries and day-to-day issues raised by the business and provide relevant and practical advice promptly
• Collaborate with finance and project teams on various tax and commercial projects
• Support the finance and company secretarial teams in entity rationalisation projects

Corporation tax compliance and reporting

• Preparation of the Group quarterly tax provision calculations using Longview.
• Review local statutory accounts tax disclosures prepared by the outsourced provider.
• Oversee the preparation of the annual tax computations and returns by outsourced providers
• Assist in the preparation of out of scope work feeding into the tax computations such as chargeable gains calculations, deductibility of expenditure, RDEC and patent box calculations, and any necessary transfer pricing adjustments
• Collaborate with the Tax Senior Manager and the outsourced provider in performing the CFC review.
• Support the Tax Senior Manager and Director with the SAO review and controls
• WHT compliance – manage the process of obtaining a high volume of certificates of residency and other regulatory forms for overseas teams, as required, to benefit from double tax treaty reliefs and ensure inter-company payments/receipts can be made promptly.

UK and Ireland Group Tax Data

• Manage the Group Payment Arrangement and calculate corporation tax payments on account. Monitor and update the tax payment database. Liaise with HMRC and ROS on company tax balances, repayments, reallocations and any ad hoc queries.
• Calculate and prepare journals for annual prior year adjustments, along with charges for payment of group relief.
• Calculate cash tax forecasts, as requested by various stakeholders in the business.
• Perform tax balance sheet reviews to ensure prior year adjustments, payments to HMRC and charges for group relief are reflected correctly in each entity’s balance sheet.