Title:  EMEA Senior Tax Manager

Job Title – EMEA Senior Tax Manager

Job Location – UK Remote

Job ID – 24384

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 11 UK sites, our team of nearly 1,000 people delivers unique capabilities across space, air, land, sea and cyber for military, security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.

A few of our employee benefits are:

·         25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days

·         Private medical insurance with optional family cover

·         Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution

·         Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)

·         Group income protection

·         Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme

·         Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

·         Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)

What the role will involve

L3Harris is seeking an EMEA International Tax Sr. Manager to join its Global Tax team. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing and independently managing all direct and indirect tax functions for a portfolio of companies within the EMEA region. Responsibilities include tax compliance and payments, financial reporting (ASC 740), controversy support, and special projects. The ideal candidate is a team player who communicates effectively with domestic and international tax teams across multiple time zones, strives for continuous improvement, creates and implements tax plans, and works across the business functional teams to identify opportunities for tax savings, process improvements, and risk mitigation areas.

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Manage the Company’s international direct and indirect tax / value added tax processes for the EMEA region.
• Work closely with the L3Harris finance team, local country controllers and external advisors to manage the preparation and review of quarterly and annual tax provision calculations for all non-US entities in accordance with ASC 740.
• Collaborate with external auditors to facilitate the timely and successful completion of tax audits and financial reporting requirements.
• Advise the Company’s business units with respect to corporate income tax, VAT, GST and WHT implications for purposes of pricing contracts / new opportunities.
• Engage with the Company’s operational, legal, and accounting teams to identify local country tax requirements required to set up new entities/branches and implement tax processes going forward.
• Perform technical research and draft tax memorandums to summarize complex international tax issues.
• Lead tax transformation projects to streamline the international tax provision processes resulting in increased efficiencies and an accelerated close timeline.
• Be a champion for a strong control environment, including adherence to all applicable SOX requirements.
• Provide oversight of foreign local country compliance outsourcing and assistance with audits.
• Assist the international shared services team with local statutory financial statements, specifically related to the tax provision calculations and tax disclosures.
• Ensure estimated income tax payments are forecasted accurately and timely remitted to local non-US taxing authorities and payments are accurately recorded and reconciled in the non-US entity’s general ledger.
• Monitor and model the impact of new international tax legislation to forecast the implications to the organization.
• Assist with special projects, such as M&A, as needed. This includes working with outside tax advisors to analyze non-US transactions, model tax costs, estimate the impact on attributes, perform due diligence, and assist with carveout financial statements.
• Support the EMEA business unit controllers and international shared services team with all tax matters for the relevant legal entities.
• Other ad-hoc tasks as assigned.

What you’ll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• 10+ years of experience with a public accounting firm or US multinational corporation
• CPA license and/or Masters in Tax preferred
• Extensive experience and background in ASC 740 accounting for income taxes
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships cross-functionally within the organization.
• Proficiency with Hyperion Tax Provision or equivalent tax provision software experience and MS Office applications
• Detail oriented, analytical, and able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to identify and drive process improvements.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.

Important to know

Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK.