Interim Group Tax Manager

Interim Group Tax Manager PE-backed Fintech London (Hybrid) 6 month contract Pearse Portfolio are supporting a leading private equity backed FinTech company. This is a newly created position across the Group, they are looking for someone to lead and implement a function. The work has a broad and commercial scope, you will design the tax function as you run it. What you will own

• Group VAT - submit and review group VAT return, and own VAT data quality across the group's finance systems
• Corporate tax compliance life cycle
• Take ownership of the group's open post-completion tax action list
• Implement tax processes and controls and reduce manual effort in tax data preparation and reporting
• Support tax due diligence review and structuring input on future acquisitions Key Requirements
• Both UK VAT experience and UK corporation tax experience
• Review and prepare - there will be no team beneath you
• Ability to explain tax to non-experts, and communicate effectively with advisors, auditors and HMRC
• Comfortable in an environment where systems and data are still being consolidated Preferred
• CTA qualified (ACA/ACCA considered)
• PE experience
• Exposure to tax due diligence
• Experience in system/tax technology implementation