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VAT Accountant

Travel

Woking

Permanent ⁄ £45000 - £55000

Updated August 9, 2008

You will be responsible for the following:
• Involvement in VAT compliance across approximately 30 European countries;
• Maintenance of a VAT compliance calendar (VAT payments, VAT filings, VAT reconciliations)
• Maintenance of a VAT provisioning and reporting software tool
• Support on quarterly VAT reporting and VAT SOX processes
• Review of certain UK and Overseas VAT returns prepared by external advisors and retained finance.
• VAT support on cross border VAT reclaims
• Assisting on other compliance issues including HMRC enquiries and other VAT audits in Europe;
• Research and analysis on smaller projects and/or in assisting the VAT Manager or Tax Director or larger VAT projects;

Who we're looking for
• 2+ years VAT experience;
• Ideally practice experience;
• Good technical knowledge of VAT, particularly international services;
• Be able to perform research with good analytical skills;
• Can multi task and prioritise effectively;
• Can build relationships and trust within Sabre with tax, accounting, legal and business colleagues;
• Able to their manage work load independently while being part of a larger team;
• Able to deal with ambiguity, imprecise or incomplete data in delivering practical advice;
• Good verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate tax issues to non tax people;
• Recognise the implications to internal P&L's and budgets of VAT write offs, external advisory costs and accruals etc, understand risk management and how/when to communicate upwards;
• Manages and embraces change.

About our client
Our client is a leading travel company based in Woking

What's on offer
£40,000- £50,000

Michael Page Contact
For further info, apply or phone on +44 (0) 20 7269 2224. Job Ref: 12984794
Your application will be sent to Clare Haylor.