• As Assistant Tax Manager, you’ll join our in-house Group Tax team and report to the Group Senior Tax Manager. You’ll cover group tax reporting and UK corporation tax compliance
• You’ll also manage the outsourced providers who handle our tax compliance across a large international footprint, and oversee our UK R&D expenditure credit (RDEC) process
• You’ll own your work from start to finish, working closely with Finance and our external advisers
• Preparing quarterly and year-end group tax reporting under IFRS and US GAAP. This includes current and deferred tax, effective tax rate analysis and disclosures, plus the tax notes in the statutory accounts,
• Preparing UK corporation tax computations, returns and provisions, including the impact of RDEC,
• Overseeing our outsourced RDEC provider, including reviewing claims and supporting data,
• Supporting Patent Box claims, Corporate Interest Restriction (CIR) calculations and returns, and HMRC enquiries and correspondence,
• Supporting tax risk management and governance, including Senior Accounting Officer (SAO) compliance and the tax risk register,
• Managing outsourced providers who prepare tax returns in 25+ countries, including scoping the work, tracking deadlines, reviewing quality and monitoring fees,
• Managing data requests to Finance teams and local entities, and using Excel to collect, reconcile and check the data,
• Managing tax payments, including instalments and the cash tax calendar,
• Preparing cash tax and effective tax rate forecasts, and providing tax inputs for budget and forecast cycles
• You’ll keep up to date with UK and international tax law changes and assess how they affect the group. You’ll also support projects and one-off queries in areas such as transfer pricing and Pillar Two

Benefits

• Active social and charity initiatives including our matched charitable giving scheme and employee recognition scheme
• 23 days paid holiday plus UK bank holidays, increasing to 25 days after two years’ service
• Additional birthday day off
• Salary Sacrifice pension scheme with 4% employer contribution and minimum 5% employee contribution
• Optional BUPA private medical insurance for you and your immediate family
• Life assurance with a benefit of 4x your annual basic salary
• Employee Assistance Programme offering both on-line and telephone support and resources to you and your family
• Cycle to work scheme

• You’ll take ownership of the compliance process and meet deadlines
• You’ll have managed outsourced tax compliance providers across several countries, and you’ll have strong Excel skills, including managing and analysing large data sets
• You’ll also work well with colleagues outside tax, including Finance, Legal, R&D and HR, and you’ll have strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining tax positions clearly to non-tax colleagues
• Darktrace warmly welcomes applications from ACCA or CTA qualified tax professionals with experience of group tax reporting under IFRS or US GAAP, and of UK corporation tax compliance
• Exposure to transfer pricing or Pillar Two
• Exposure to RDEC, Patent Box and CIR,
• Experience with tax provision or compliance software such as OneSource,
• In-house experience in a multinational group,