Senior Manager, Group Tax

Senior Manager, Group Tax

Location: Luton

AstraZeneca’s Finance function is on a transformation journey with the objective of delivering excellence in financial operations and insight. The strategy enhances business efficiency, benefiting millions of patients worldwide, highlighting the need for strong finance support and leadership. This role gives the opportunity to ensure that our Global Minimum Tax processes are efficient and effective, giving clear insight to our stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities

This role will primarily work within the Global Minimum Tax team leading the delivery of our global response to the Global Minimum Tax rules, with a focus on designing, implementing and delivering our global minimum tax solution for our global business. The role involves ensuring we align with our tax reporting and tax compliance requirements. Based in our UK office, you will work closely with the wider group tax team, our group financial reporting and IT teams and external advisers to provide insight and ensure we can meet the necessary business outcomes.

If you are a qualified tax professional or accountant with significant tax and accounting experience, this is a great opportunity to influence all aspects of the implementation of a brand-new global tax regime in a UK HQ group with a significant global presence.

We are looking for a candidate with tax accounting experience but as important is a problem solver,

simplifier, integrator, connector and communicator. A change agent who challenges, works with an agile, positive approach, and has the ability to think differently and make it happen.

In this role you will:

Support the operation of the end-to-end processes required to ensure we comply with our legal requirements and necessary business outcomes, working with colleagues in our IT, transactional finance and reporting finance teams. This includes:

• understanding of the new rules as they are enacted in UK and in the rest of the world,
• understand role of safe harbours and define process to ensure we can rely upon this where relevant
• designing and operating processes to capture new data points as required in the regime
• operate processes to demonstrate compliance for our group interim and year-end reporting processes
• working with our outsource provider to prepare global minimum tax calculations
• embed process for continuous improvements
• supporting the wider business with the Global Minimum Tax impact of transactions

As part of our global tax team, support the global minimum tax compliance process, including ensuring that the appropriate calculations are performed and disclosed on information returns on a timely and accurate basis. Work with advisors to ensure that local requirements are met.

Support the operation of the group interim and year-end tax reporting process to quantify the potential global minimum tax liability, contributing to potential disclosure requirements.

Work with advisors and colleagues to monitor international tax developments, model effects and assess their impact on the global minimum tax processes and our underlying tax landscape.

Support wider tax operations team on key processes and projects.

Essential skills and experience:

• Qualified accountant or tax professional with strong accounting skills, knowledge of corporate income tax accounting and corporate income tax principles and awareness of global minimum tax
• Strong analytical and research skills, and ability to utilise technology effectively to operate tax processes
• Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage and progress numerous actions in a coordinated and organised manner
• Effective process management and delegation skills
• Ability to work to tight deadlines

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, you'll be part of a dedicated team that drives our evolving enterprise to better serve patients every day. Coordinated with the whole enterprise, we bring to bear exciting technology and digital innovations to accelerate our evolution. With an entrepreneurial spirit, we apply creativity to every task, taking smart risks to turn ideas into reality. Our fast-paced environment is driven by intellectual curiosity and a passion for helping patients. Here, you'll find countless opportunities to build an unrivalled reputation while being rewarded for your successes.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now and join us on this exciting journey!

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.