Tax Planning & Strategy Manager, Liberty Global
Global telecoms company & tech investor
Job no longer available
Global telecoms company & tech investor
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build tomorrow’s connections today, bringing people together through the power of technology.
Role
Who you are
- As the group is UK headquartered, the candidate should have a strong UK tax technical background, whilst also understanding international tax matters to advise on cross-border transactions
- Professional tax/accounting qualification
- Substantial relevant experience in a large international group tax environment or Big 4 team with strong tax experience in the following areas – complex tax planning and optimisation in an international context, including restructurings, CFCs, treasury tax matters, M&A and good awareness across all the taxes
- Strong technical knowledge and judgement regarding international tax compliance principles
- The ability to work independently and to drive a project forward as a self-starting, energised individual
- Strong judgement and problem solving skills, with an ability to identify workable solutions in a dynamic complex business environment and collaborate with team members to take solutions and ideas forward
- Excellent personal and interaction skills; able to communicate well and explain tax concepts in an appropriate way for stakeholders and contacts in the wider business
- Good understanding of the underlying business and commercial matters and an ability to interact effectively with senior members of the Tax team and members of other stakeholder teams (for example Legal, Treasury, Finance Operations)
What the job involves
- The Manager will directly support the Senior Manager and Director in the UK, as well as working with the wider team in the Netherlands and US
- This role involves understanding and applying tax legislation to advise on complex group initiatives, M&A and restructuring projects
- Support the Tax Director and Senior Manager in execution and delivery of the tax planning and strategy objectives of the Liberty Global (LG) group to ensure the tax position of the group is optimised
- Work with a wide range of multi-discipline teams and senior stakeholders to ensure the UK planning and strategy team can provide tax analysis and solutions on multiple complex projects, transactions and business initiatives across the LG group
- Support the Tax Director and Senior Manager to evaluate and implement tax planning strategies. Identify tax risks to the LG group’s tax position and design and implement strategies to optimise the position
- Support and deliver in providing tax input on multiple projects, transactions and business initiatives across the LG group as assigned. This will include business and finance projects at Virgin Media and complex Finance Operations projects
- Assist with tax aspects of projects related to M&A transactions as assigned, including acquisitions / dispositions, establishment of JV arrangements, relevant tax due diligence, acquisition and integration tax structuring, whilst ensuring efficient use of internal and external resources
- Assist the Senior Manager, where appropriate, with the UK tax aspects around complex Treasury and Finance positions, transactions and structures for the group
- Take responsibility for the work required to ensure the group is fully compliant with its obligations to report to HMRC under the UK’s International Movement of Capital (IMOC) rules, involving ongoing and timely analysis of loan and share transactions across the LG group
- Play a key role in ensuring the team manages the group’s position in relation to the UK Controlled Foreign Company (CFC) rules, ensuring that exposures are minimised. This will include providing real time advice and decision making on relevant group-wide transactions, corporate restructuring and complying with the CFC tax compliance requirements in this complex tax area. This will include leading the annual CFC review for the group
- Have a working knowledge of the UK Anti Hybrid rules, Corporate Interest Restriction, and Diverted Profits Tax. Monitor new developments or changes to legislation in these areas and consider the impact for the group
- Proactively monitor new UK tax legislative developments and consider their impact on the tax position of the LG group. Provide an initial assessment of the impact to the Tax Director and Senior Manager
- Lead certain aspects of the quarterly tax reporting process for some of the LG UK corporate entities
- Assist the Senior Manager with updates and sign off of UK tax forecasting. Understand and have knowledge of areas of UK tax volatility and use this knowledge to keep other members of the tax team up to date
- Maintain a strong and professional relationship when interacting with the Tax Authorities and assist with managing HMRC correspondence and formulating responses to enquiries
- 40 hours per week
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Liberty Global is a world leader in broadband, video, and mobile communications, responsible for top brands such as Virgin Media-02 in the UK, VodafoneZiggo in The Netherlands, and Sunrise in Switzerland. The company also actively invests in and launches infrastructure, content, and technology ventures, such as EV charging network company Believ (formerly Liberty Charge), green energy brand Egg, and AtlasEdge Data Centers, among others.
The company has been undeniably successful, having created an impressive family of brands containing both big names and smaller innovators - its investment arm has a portfolio of more than 75 companies ranging from ITV to cloud-native app protection platform Lacework. In its own words, its scale allows it to "transfer knowledge and expertise across our operations and investments", enabling all brands within its roster to benefit from its industry leading experience.
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Company benefits
- Comprehensive health plan
- Paid volunteer time off
- Healthy food and snacks
- Flexible working
- Learning and development opportunities
- Retirement scheme
Company values
- WE ARE STRAIGHT UP: We are authentic, transparent and do the right thing for our customers and our organization.
- WE ARE LIMITLESS: We’re bold and set new standards in all that we do.
- WE ARE UNITED: We collaborate and embrace our differences to achieve our goals.
- WE ARE AGILE: We are resilient. We strive to embrace change, evolve, transform and adapt quickly.
Company HQ
Hammersmith, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Mike Fries
(CEO)Was a member of the Liberty Global founding team, and launched the company’s international expansion. Since then, they have served in various strategic and operating capacities, finally being appointed as CEO in 2005.
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