Salary: £65,000 to £80,000 plus benefits

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world 

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Group finance team to recruit an accomplished corporate tax specialist.  With operations in over 25 countries, we are looking to expand our Global Tax team with this new role. This role presents a unique opportunity to expand your existing corporate knowledge to cover new areas of tax and new territories.

We're looking for an experienced UK Tax Reporting and Corporate Tax Compliance Manager to collaborate with and work closely with our Group Head of Tax and external partners to bring UK compliance in house and assist on multiple projects. We will assist you in developing your tax knowledge in new categories.

Key Responsibilities

• Preparing Group Tax Disclosures/ Global Corporate Tax Compliance
• Preparing UK Tax returns, including preparing the CFC return, preparing ETR and QIP forecasts, and drafting group financial statements tax disclosures.
• Assistance with preparing RDEC claims, collaborating with different businesses and functions.
• Assisting with international M&A projects, including integration of acquired entities into our group.
• Assisting with Transfer Pricing including review of agreements, and liaison with external TP advisors.
• Identifying, developing, and implementing process standardisation initiatives.
• Monitoring local country tax submissions / liaising with external advisors, ensuring on-time filing of local country obligations with an initial focus on the USA.
• Monitoring our tax fee budget, automating where possible.
• Liaising with our Legal and Treasury teams and others on tax matters relating to corporate governance and our entity structure, including Permanent Establishment queries and Corporate Criminal Offence training.
• Assisting with ad hoc advice to the business on a wide range of topics including VAT and Employment tax globally.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Professional Tax and/or accounting qualification
• Substantial experience of Tax Accounting and Provision experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with highly experienced business and tax professionals.
• Flexible mindset and willingness to embrace change and develop new areas of expertise

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.