Senior Treasury Tax Manager (12 month FTC)

Job Title: Treasury Tax Senior Manager  (12 month FTC)

Location: London

Hours: Full Time - 35 hours per week

Working Pattern: Hybrid, which involves spending 2 days per week, or 40% of our time, in one of our office sites

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

We’re looking for a new Treasury Tax Senior Manager to join our Group Corporate Treasury and Commercial Banking team for a 12 month contract. In this role you’ll establish a positive relationship with key partners in tax, finance and the business and being recognised as tax and business leader and SME. 

Reporting to the Group Tax Advisory Director you’ll work alongside other tax technical specialists, senior leadership team members and external advisers as a value adding business partner.  

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

This specialist role will support LBG’s business activities with particular emphasis on:

• Being a key part of a small team of corporate tax specialists supporting on successful delivery of technical tax advice including on loan relationships, swaps and other derivative contracts, repos and commercial lending in the context of a fixed income business as well as commercial structuring and tax enquiries with a focus on the Group’s Treasury and Commercial Banking operations.

• Interacting closely with our corporate tax compliance and tax reporting colleagues to ensure that tax returns and IFRS reporting, both solus and consolidated, accurately reflect all tax consequences.   

• Supporting the Group understand and implement requirements of direct tax legislation and support the development of the Group Tax team through both formal training activity and more informal mentoring, support and development activities.

• Building a network of contacts across LBG and externally and acting as a contact for Group Corporate Treasury and Commercial Banking as well as being seen as a tax subject matter expert who can address queries across a wide range of topics.

• Working alongside the wider Group Tax team to provide expert technical support and input when required across corporate tax compliance and reporting matters.  This will cover a wide range of areas, including new legislation, new business developments and technical matters arising from unusual situations or transactions.

• Managing the resolution of HMRC disputes through correspondence, and direct engagement providing insight and technical expertise to ensure enquiries remain focused, technically sound and are progressed in a co-operative, pragmatic and transparent manner.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

Skills / Qualifications

• Tax specialist with an established record within practice or industry.

• Professional Accountancy, Tax and/or Economics qualifications, e.g. ACA, CA, CTA, ADIT or a relevant MSc.

• Strong technical skills and communication abilities both with other tax professionals, business colleagues and external advisors.

• Experience of tax matters in the relevant areas (taxation of banks, loan relationships, derivative contracts, repos and other forms of lending) or the desire and ability to extend existing skills into those areas.  Strong technical knowledge of IFRS accounting as it applies to financing transactions, derivatives and hedging.

• Good understanding of risk expectations for a tax function impacted by a number of regulatory and tax regimes.

• Financial Services background.

Key attributes

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Technically proficient particularly in key and relevant areas of corporation tax

• Strong analytical and interpretative skills

• Strong core IT skills, willing to embrace latest technologies and applications to improve processes and risk management.

ABOUT WORKING FOR US:

We're dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimise your potential! As a new colleague to the team, you’ll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel encouraged and valued. We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process, just let us know.

We work in hybrid ways which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites.

You'll also receive:

• A competitive salary.

• A discretionary bonus.

• Private medical insurance.

• Pension contributions up to a maximum of 15% of your salary.

• Share plans.

• 30 days paid holiday each year, plus Bank Holidays. 

If you're excited by this role, please apply as we'd love to hear from you.

Together we’ll make it possible!