Senior Tax Manager

Senior Tax Manager

Paris

This role is regulated by Central Bank of Ireland.

As a Barclays Senior Tax Manager, you will have opportunity to supporting the Head of Tax France and the Barclays Europe Tax Director to ensure Barclays entities in France and other locations meet their tax filing/compliance obligations in an accurate, complete, and timely manner. Within your team there is an interesting and constantly changing mix of work. Time is spent on both business-as-usual activities and a variety of ad hoc projects, driven by changes within Barclays or the implementation of new tax, regulatory or accounting standards.

Barclays Europe is an essential part of Barclays' success across the globe. We support the bank's global growth by servicing European clients and markets. We connect European clients to the power of Barclays globally, offering them access to the largest capital markets and growth opportunities in the US, UK and Asia. And we offer agile, determined, and resilient people a platform for remarkable professional and personal growth. This is your chance to get closer to Europe and stay more connected than ever to the rest of the globe.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity - helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, 'anchor', days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Reviewing and signing off in a timely manner of tax returns filings/calculations/payments, ensuring that these have been prepared in line with agreed policies and tax rules

• Having responsibility for providing technical insight, analysis, and conclusions on a variety of technical areas, ad hoc projects/transactions, and new product approvals

• Providing support and reviewing the preparation of IFRS and French GAAP current and deferred taxes, booking of tax provisions and tax payments including tax accounts reconciliations

• Driving continuous improvement and documentation of corporation tax reporting and forecasting processes and controls

• Ensuring that Barclays is taking the correct tax positions in our returns in the current and prior years, ensuring that we are taking positions which are consistent with our Group tax principles

• Reviewing and providing support with the transfer pricing report, the annual VAT audit trail report and FEC (computerized accounting file) report

• Leading any local tax audits and any ad hoc queries from the tax authorities in France and other locations

• Evaluating, implementing, monitoring procedures/controls to mitigate tax risks and taking ownership of resolutions of specific technical issues as they arise

What we're looking for:

• Extensive French tax experience, preferably from working at a leading tax advisory firm and/or an institution in the financial services sector with cross-border implications

• Fluent French with good English language skills and able to communicate confidently

• Good knowledge and experience with tax accounting data to demonstrate ability to use and interpret financial data

• Excellent tax technical skills are required to assess the correct tax treatment of various issues with good time management skills

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Able to work independently on several priorities and to tight deadlines, as well as mentoring and developing more junior members of the team

• Excellent educational background, preferably from a technical or quantitative discipline in Tax Law/Tax Accounting

• A good understanding of the complexities and nuances of Corporate and Investment Banking businesses

• Robust problem-solving skills, commercial awareness and able to provide insight to the business of the impact of business decisions on the Group's tax profile

Where will you be working?

Dating from 1922, Barclays has a long established presence in France. Today, from our office in Paris we provide a full service Investment Bank offering to our local and global clients. Our integrated coverage model means we are able to provide our clients with access to deep expertise across sectors, regions and products. We deliver informed strategic advice, comprehensive financial solutions and risk management services, creating sophisticated strategies customised to meet our clients' needs.

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