Senior Tax Associate
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Own day-to-day VAT compliance oversight for UK and European entities, including preparation or review of deliverables prepared by external providers. Manage VAT registrations, fiscal representation, and cross-border issues as the firm's European footprint evolves. Monitor developments in UK and European indirect tax law and translate into practical guidance for the business. Partner with Finance and Operations on VAT recovery, partial exemption, and ERP/tax engine configuration, and with Business Management on reviewing new business proposals from a tax perspective. Support UK and European corporate tax compliance cycles, including review of computations and returns prepared by external advisors. Assist with quarterly and year-end tax provisioning under IFRS and/or US GAAP for European entities. Coordinate with global tax colleagues in the US on matters with cross-regional implications. Join DRW's London-based Tax team to support the Tax Director on all aspects of the firm's European tax profile.
Required Qualifications
- Approximately 5 years of post-qualification tax experience
- ACA or CTA qualified (or recognised non-UK equivalent)
- Demonstrable UK VAT technical strength
- Exposure to cross-border service flows
- Ideally, financial services or trading-industry VAT issues (partial exemption, financial services exemption scope, commodity trading)
- Working knowledge of UK corporate tax
- Ability to research and form views on unfamiliar continental European tax issues
- Comfort operating independently in a lean team
- Managing external advisors
- Prioritising across multiple concurrent workstreams
Desired Qualifications
- Prior in-house experience within financial services, trading, asset management, or a similarly regulated environment
- Exposure to VAT regimes across multiple EU member states (Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain)
- Familiarity with e-invoicing / real-time reporting mandates and tax technology tooling
- Exposure to Pillar Two, transfer pricing, or withholding tax analysis
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