International Tax Manager or Assistant Manager

Rutherford Cross is pleased to be partnering with the Weir Group to recruit an International Tax Manager or Assistant Manager. Reporting to the Transfer Pricing Director, the successful candidate will work closely with key Head Office and Divisional finance leadership as well as the network of Weir in-house tax professionals throughout the global group to help drive and maintain international tax/transfer pricing excellence for the Weir Group.

The position presents an excellent prospect for a first class, qualified individual to join the Head Office of an impressive multinational, with the opportunity to develop their career within International Tax during an exciting time for the business.

The Role Objectives:

• Build and maintain relationships with head office and divisional colleagues to better understand business changes, which need to be reflected in transfer pricing policies
• Assist in the review and refinement of group transfer pricing policies
• Develop and maintain working models to calculate transfer prices for certain transactions
• Help to provide transfer pricing guidance to Weir businesses e.g. through the documentation of internal processes for setting and updating transfer pricing policies
• Assist in the development/use of novel solutions to better access/analyse Weir financial data in the management of group transfer pricing policies
• Management of the group’s outsourced transfer pricing documentation and other advisory projects
• Assist in the preparation and review of the group’s country by country reporting obligations
• Support on global transfer pricing audits and other dispute resolutions
• Tax audit readiness work, e.g. documenting evidence of the benefit to entities of intragroup service fees
• Assist in the identification, quantification and documentation of uncertain tax positions for tax provisioning purposes
• Permanent establishment reviews, for established business and expansions into new locations
• Non-transfer pricing international tax issues associated with related parted transactions, including interactions with WHT and indirect taxes
• Scope to expand and develop role e.g. to encompass group-wide R&D opportunities, mainstream tax authority audit support, group-wide tax risk and compliance reviews, due diligence and M&A support

The Candidate:

Big 4 or industry experience would be beneficial as international tax experience is required.

Education and Experience:

• Excellent academic record including a professional post-graduate tax and/or accounting qualification
• Knowledge/experience of international tax issues
• Working knowledge of transfer pricing desirable but not essential

 Personal Qualities

• Incisive, analytical and numerical
• Strong communicator with ability to build relationships at all levels of the business
• Inquisitive nature
• Ability to be in command of the detail and well as provide support and insight to high level strategy
• Preparedness in a small central team to “roll-up sleeves” to get the job done

To apply, have a confidential discussion, or to see a full Position Profile, please contact retained advisor Amy Peoples at Rutherford Cross on T: 07494280152 or E: [email protected].