&I Tax & Finance Data Analyst

Overview

To support the tax professionals in ensuring all UK & Irish entities maintain high quality tax compliance and reporting. The role is responsible for the data, analysis, and controls that enable accurate, timely, and compliant tax reporting and tax return preparation for the UK & Ireland group.

The jobholder partners closely with tax specialists, the Mars Accounting Service Centre, PwC, and business unit finance teams to ensure that accurate, complete, and well controlled data flows into corporation tax returns, tax provisioning, forecasting, and group reporting.

• Own and manage all financial data required from PwC, the Mars Accounting Service Centre, and business units to ensure complete, accurate, and timely data for tax submissions.
• Coordinate and validate financial data across legal entities, ensuring it is fully aligned to tax reporting requirements.
• Extract, prepare and analyse data used to prepare Corporation Tax Returns, tax payments and other tax processes.
• Support the corporation tax reporting process, including tax returns, deferred tax calculations, and group reporting.
• Deliver accurate and well supported data for audit queries and tax authority requests.
• Support the UK Tax Senior Manager in integrating newly acquired or newly established businesses into the UK&I tax centre processes.

• Finance qualification and data analyst experience or equivalent experience of analysing / sorting underlying data to prepare accounts and/or tax returns.
• Experience of extracting and analysing data from accounting information systems such as SAP, ORACLE & Hyperion.
• Strong Excel skills including:
  Pivot Tables, Complex formula, Query & other data analysis techniques.
• Working knowledge of Corporation Tax concepts such as taxable profit, permanent and temporary difference would be desirable, but not essential.
• Experience of at least one Analytical/data tool Alteryx.

Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles. Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today. A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University. An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.