Senior Tax Accountant

Senior Tax Accountant, Tax Technical
This role is a client facing role and manages the clients and their auditors during tax reporting periods. In addition to managing the tax reporting for their clients, they will be primarily involved in the review of unit trust distributions and other tax calculations performed by the Tax Operations team. They are also heavily involved in the testing of processes and templates, updating standard operating procedures, and act as subject matter expert on client transitions and projects.

Primary Role Responsibilities

• Accurate and timely delivery of tax reporting deliverables.
• Review distribution calculations, discovery calculations, superannuation fund tax calculations and tax returns.
• Manage clients and auditors throughout the tax audit process.
• Review and maintenance of client tax profiles and security static data used to drive reporting and tax calculations.
• Attending to and responding to client queries.
• Adherence to operational compliance and risk policies.
• Assist in the completion of projects, including testing tax templates.
• Subject matter expert on projects and transitions.
• Review and provide direction on complex corporate actions.
• Provide tax training to the team and operations (as required).
• Actively participate and contribute to meeting other team deliverables.

Requirements

• Approximately 5+ years commercial experience in tax compliance working with unit trusts and/or superannuation funds
• Detailed knowledge of tax accounting principles for financial instruments, trusts, and/or superannuation funds.
• Knowledge of fund accounting, reporting and related operational risk and compliance requirements of the client service function
• Qualified Accountant/Tax specialist qualifications
• Experience using central accounting systems and producing reconciliations
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Demonstrated history of managing clients and auditors at yearend