Senior Tax Advisor
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Occupation Type
Taxation experts
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£48,500
(£24.87 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
About Us
Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.
Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.
We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.
Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.
We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.
About The Role
This role is a key position within our global tax function, working closely with the Heads of Tax to oversee the firm’s global tax affairs, with a particular focus on India tax compliance, Middle East tax compliance, permanent establishment risk management and withholding tax advisory.
You will be joining a globally diverse, collaborative Finance function that plays a central role in safeguarding the firm’s financial stability and driving value through data-led insight and financial stewardship. This is an excellent opportunity for a tax professional who enjoys a blend of hands-on compliance, complex advisory work and wide stakeholder engagement across a truly international platform.
Your Main Responsibilities Will Include
India tax compliance and audit
Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.
Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.
We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.
Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.
We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.
About The Role
This role is a key position within our global tax function, working closely with the Heads of Tax to oversee the firm’s global tax affairs, with a particular focus on India tax compliance, Middle East tax compliance, permanent establishment risk management and withholding tax advisory.
You will be joining a globally diverse, collaborative Finance function that plays a central role in safeguarding the firm’s financial stability and driving value through data-led insight and financial stewardship. This is an excellent opportunity for a tax professional who enjoys a blend of hands-on compliance, complex advisory work and wide stakeholder engagement across a truly international platform.
Your Main Responsibilities Will Include
India tax compliance and audit
- Support the firm’s Indian tax compliance, ensuring accurate and timely filing of returns, disclosures and other obligations.
- Liaise with local advisers to manage and meet compliance deadlines.
- Review and support on withholding tax queries relating to payments from clients, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.
- Support the Heads of Tax to monitor and manage the firm’s permanent establishment risks globally, working with the wider tax team to consider PE risks alongside other tax considerations.
- Assist in assessing whether the firm’s activities in different jurisdictions create potential PE risks and support the firm with business initiatives that involve PE risk.
- Provide guidance on mitigating PE risks, including advising on cross-border work activity.
- Collaborate with legal, regulatory and finance teams to ensure PE risks are identified early and addressed effectively.
- Prepare and coordinate tax clearance applications (to receive interest payments at reduced rates of withholding tax).
- Liaise with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to request certificates of residence, certification of special forms and other ad hoc requirements.
- Anticipate and address withholding tax queries from the business and support in resolving queries with clients.
- Support the Head of Tax and Middle East Finance team on Middle East corporate tax, value added tax (VAT) and withholding tax compliance matters.
- Review and support the firm’s compliance with the Corporate Criminal Offence legislation on failure to prevent tax evasion.
- Support the team on VAT compliance and advisory matters.
- Strong experience in corporate tax, VAT and withholding tax compliance and advisory.
- ACA or ACCA qualification.
- A tax qualification such as CTA or ADIT (desirable).
Our Benefits
Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:
Health & Wellbeing
- Private Medical Insurance
- Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
- Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments
- Pension and flexible savings options
- Income protection and life assurance
- Mortgage advice and will-writing services
- Electric car and cycle to work schemes
- Emergency family care
- Additional holiday/birthday leave
- Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
- Travel insurance and season ticket loan
- Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality Network, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)
Technical Skills
This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.
Application Policy
Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders (lateralrecruitment@linklaters.com for legal roles or ukbtrecruitment@linklaters.com for business team roles).