About the Role
Support the Senior Tax Manager – M&A and VP Tax Portfolio and Strategy with transactions, including international tax aspects like capital structure, financing, and cash repatriation.
Responsibilities
- Provide best practice tax advice for transactions and to Group Tax Business Partner teams.
- Assist with tax due diligence processes, including data room preparation and report review.
- Identify structure alternatives and prepare tax structuring reports.
- Assess idea development and business cases for BD activities, providing commercial tax advice.
- Work with external providers and in-house teams to deliver commercially appropriate tax advice.
- Work on legal entity reorganisation, rationalisation, and restructuring projects.
- Implement proposed restructures and provide input on UK tax considerations.
- Optimize capital allocation and cash repatriation across the group.
- Design and support appropriate financing structures for various projects.
- Provide tax advice to Country Tax Leads on financing, capital structure, and cash repatriation.
- Advise on UK treasury tax matters, including loan relationships, foreign exchange, and loan restructures.
- Support strategic tax initiatives and assess value generated.
- Drive and implement strategic initiatives, including stakeholder communication.
- Prepare and plan effective stakeholder engagement.
- Support and lead ad hoc projects and initiatives.
- Identify and develop opportunities to enhance processes and consider risk impacts.
- Develop strong working relationships with key personnel across the Group Tax team and business operations.
- Engage with and manage external professional service providers on tax matters.
- Demonstrate behavior in line with health, safety, and environmental standards.
- Set health, safety, and environmental expectations for your team and monitor behavior.
- Participate in relevant safety audits, inspections, and observations.
- Demonstrate behavior in line with the Group’s values, standards, and a professional workplace.
- Develop performance in line with Group policies and systems.
- Foster a constructive and productive working environment.
- Drive delivery of objectives and be accountable for work.
- Participate as an effective team member, collaborating to achieve business goals.
- Contribute to the broader business by optimizing overall business results.
- Identify opportunities for improved cost management.
- Assist in managing consulting spend and delivering sustainable value.
- Understand policies, processes, and systems applicable to work.
- Identify issues that interfere with work completion or strategy.
- Make required changes to processes within authority or escalate issues.
Requirements
- A solid proven track record of having worked in a similar M&A role in the Tax field in Commerce with a Big 4 Accounting firm or a Law firm is required.
- Wider knowledge of the UK tax system – and a good working knowledge of the UK tax regime as it relates to transactions, financing and treasury activities would be an advantage.
- Transfer pricing experience in relation to loan relationships would be an advantage.
- A good working knowledge of international tax principles, tax residence etc would be an advantage.
- How to influence people and manage change and effectively communicate ideas and solutions to senior management.
- Ability to undertake presentations to Senior Management.
- Efficient work practices.
- Strong commercial acumen.
- Ability to analyse a whole host of information and extract the pertinent facts and make a sound tax analysis thereof.
- Demonstrate strategic thinking – ability to analyse complex and wide-ranging issues, design strategies to manage those issues and develop ideas into practical solutions.
- Demonstrate well-developed analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrate a high degree of commercial acumen.
- Manage multiple tasks concurrently and work to deadlines.
- Demonstrate high-level skills in the use of spreadsheet and other computer applications for analysis.
- Communicate key tax issues appropriately, with an ability to adapt tax advice accordingly depending on audience.
Skills
- M&A Tax
- International Tax
- UK Tax System
- Tax Due Diligence
- Tax Structuring
- Capital Structure
- Financing
- Cash Repatriation
- Legal Entity Reorganisation
- Treasury Tax
- Loan Relationships
- Foreign Exchange
- Strategic Tax Initiatives
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Process Improvement
- Risk Management
- Relationship Management
- External Provider Management
- Spreadsheet Software
- Computer Applications for Analysis
- Communication
- Presentation Skills
- Analytical Skills
- Planning Skills
- Problem-Solving Skills
- Commercial Acumen
- Strategic Thinking
- Change Management
Education Level
- Chartered Accountant or equivalent accounting or legal degree.
About the Company
- The strategy of Anglo American is to secure, develop and operate a portfolio of high quality and long-life resource assets to deliver leading shareholder returns.
- This can be achieved through innovative practices and technologies, in the hands of our world-class people, working towards a common purpose of re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.
- At Anglo American, we’re redefining what it means to mine responsibly.
- We lead with integrity, care deeply about people and the planet, and constantly push the boundaries of innovation to work safer and smarter.
- From reducing water and energy use to pioneering precision extraction technologies, we’re committed to sustainable practices that deliver real impact—today and for generations to come.
