Senior Tax Accountant

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Company Description

At Informa, no two days and no two people are the same, and you'll find the freedom, opportunity and support of a fantastic community to make a real impact.

We're an international business that connects specialists with knowledge, helping them to learn more, know more and do more through live and on demand events, digital and data-driven services and academic research.
We are home to over 10,000 colleagues across 30 countries and are a member of the UK's FTSE 100 group of leading public companies.

In Global Support, we provide expert guidance and hands-on support to the Informa Group and Informa's many business teams. Across tech, finance, legal, corporate development, HR, communications, operations and many other areas, we work collaboratively and flexibly to help our brands serve their customers and help the company succeed.

In this role you will be expected to travel to our shared services centre in Colchester, Essex, once a week.

Job Description

This is a Direct Tax role within the EMEA Tax & Financial Accounting team. The Tax & Financial Accounting team is responsible for the preparation and filing of indirect and direct tax filings, statutory account filings and treasury back-office functions. Our mission is to uphold the reputation of Informa through technical excellence, quality and collaboration.

This role is expected to assume some of the following key responsibilities:

• Preparation and review of allocated Corporation Tax returns (UK and overseas).
• Ensure overseas Corporate Tax compliance obligations are met, such as meeting filing and payment deadlines.
• Review of balance sheet tax related reconciliations by set deadlines.
• Assist in the tax provisioning process and provide support to accounting teams in the completion of year-end, interim and month end tax accounting and reporting, including work for Group Tax.
• Assist with the preparation & finalisation of draft tax disclosures in UK statutory financial statements.
• Monitor postings made to tax accounts and ensuring all journals are supported by appropriate documentation and correctly posted.
• Providing WHT guidance including approvals of write offs.
• Maintain accurate working papers and documentation in accordance with department policy.
• Liaise with tax advisors, both overseas and UK, as required.
• Assist in addressing Tax authority queries in a timely and efficient manner.
• Assist with relevant project work (eg. acquisitions, disposals, restructuring etc)
• Assist with the provision of information for audit queries.
• Provision of accurate and timely financial information to key business partners, external stakeholders and Group functions.
• Assist with non-routine ad hoc tax matters as required.
• Assist and train T&FA Accountants where required.

People management

• Team workload management
• Motivate team to ensure performance metrics are hit.
• Support communication structures across the team to ensure all key messages are communicated.
• Support Managers within the T&FA team to develop a plan for cross-training, working shadowing and rotation of responsibilities within team.
• Provides coaching on both soft and technical skills within the team.
• Act as a role model to others
• Team admin duties such as absence management, holiday authorisations, timesheet approvals, appraisals etc

The role will be responsible for ensuring a high standard of service delivery in line with agreed timelines whilst ensuring that all company policies are adhered to. The ability to communicate well and build relationships will be key for this role, as well as being able to grasp the structure of the organization and how we operate. You will work closely with the business partners to understand their individual requirements.

Informa takes the security and privacy of company, colleague and customer data seriously and you are responsible for working securely and supporting this within your duties.

Qualifications

• Qualified (CTA, ACA, or ACCA preferred).
• At least 4 years of relevant Tax experience.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels, including a wide range of stakeholders within the business.
• Ability to work in, embrace, and adapt to a fast-paced changing environment.
• Desire to improve processes & systems.
• Proven ability to work to stringent deadlines and problem-solve within tight timelines.
• Pro-active with the ability to take initiative and encourage teams to do the same.
• Ability to be self-sufficient as well as work in a team environment.
• Act with integrity by taking ownership and responsibility.
• Highly organized, diligent with attention to detail.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Advanced skills in Excel, Word, and Outlook are essential.
• Knowledge of Alphatax, SAP, and Oracle system preferable but not essential as training will be provided.
• Experience in people management preferable

Additional Information

Why work at Informa?

Employee experience is very important to us at Informa. On top of joining a supportive, diverse and ambitious team that welcomes all types of candidates. We are also flexible with different working patterns and prioritize promotions internally. Our benefits include:

• Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely.
• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it's time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves.
• Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover
• A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more
• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world.

We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed.

As such, Informa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under federal, state or local law.

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