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An exceptional opportunity to join an international group headquartered in Dublin as Group Head of Tax. This appointment comes at a pivotal stage in the company’s growth journey, with ambitious expansion plans across new geographies and through acquisition activity.
This is a high impact leadership role responsible for shaping and leading the group’s tax strategy, while partnering closely with the CFO and senior leadership team to support continued business growth.
Operating within a flat and collaborative structure, the role is broad in scope spanning tax, treasury and investor engagement and will require a hands on approach to day to day tax matters alongside strategic leadership responsibilities.
You will join a dynamic group and high performing organisation, with the opportunity to work alongside exceptional leaders who are genuinely committed to developing talent and supporting long term career growth.
About the position
- Manage and identify tax risks across the group, taking ownership of tax compliance in the across all relevant tax heads
- Partner closely with the group’s external tax advisors with the possibility to build more in-house expertise
- Provide advice and insight into taxation matters related to potential M&A activity. This includes review of tax due diligence materials prepared by third parties, direct preparation of tax due diligence reports in conjunction with the group’s own advisors as well as management of tax due diligence processes involving multiple parties.
- Manage the annual tax compliance and advisory fee budget as well as ad -hoc management of tax advisory fees relating to potential M&A activity.
- Collaborate with Finance, Legal, Company Secretarial and Commercial teams across the business while engaging effectively with external stakeholders including auditors, advisors and investors
- Oversee the preparation and review of legal documentation arising from tax structuring.
- Manage cross border transfer pricing aspects of head office charges and intercompany trading. This includes ensuring divisional compliance with head office mandated transfer pricing margins and required local documentation to support intra-group charges
- Lead all interactions with Irish Revenue and other tax authorities across relevant jurisdictions
- Support month end, quarterly reporting and year end reporting for tax and treasury.
About the person
- Qualified tax professional with significant pqe gained within an international group environment
- Strong technical expertise across Irish and UK corporate direct and indirect tax along with a strong knowledge of cross border tax structuring, transfer pricing and global tax developments
- Strong experience managing international tax matters across multiple European jurisdictions
- Strong exposure to M&A activity and transaction related tax matters is highly desirable.
- Treasury experience advantageous, including exposure to global treasury operations such as cash management, liquidity and funding strategy, banking relationships, financing arrangements and capital structure optimisation
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across all levels of the organisation.
- Demonstrated leadership capability with experience influencing and partnering at executive level.
- A high performer who will lead and drive growth and innovation, as well as inspiring a high-performing inclusive culture across the team and business.
