Senior Tax Manager – Planning & Ops
GE Aerospace
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Own the UK tax provision and return cycle
- Lead the end-to-end UK tax provision process and CT600 filings, ensuring accurate calculations, robust review, and timely submissions.
- Oversee anti-hybrid assessments and documentation, embedding controls to prevent disallowances and maintain audit-ready support.
- Run UK group compliance frameworks
- Manage Corporate Interest Restriction compliance (modelling capacity, allocations, and returns), Group Relief strategy and claims, and the Group Payment Arrangement to optimize cash flow and accuracy.
- Maintain clear governance and calendars across all UK entities.
- Drive cash tax forecasting with Finance Partner with FP&A to produce accurate short- and long-range UK cash tax forecasts, linking forecast drivers to P&L, capital plans, and transactional activity.
- Track forecast vs. actuals and update guidance for leadership and treasury.
- Lead UK tax controversy and HMRC engagement
- Set strategy and run case management for enquiries, audits, and rulings; coordinate evidence, positions, and timelines to achieve timely, penalty-free outcomes.
- Maintain a transparent, collaborative relationship with HMRC and ensure consistent messaging to stakeholders.
- Own UK tax planning and execution
- Identify, evaluate, and implement UK tax planning initiatives aligned with business strategy (reorgs, funding, incentives (including RDEC), loss optimisation), with clear modelling of ETR and cash impacts.
- Build business cases, approvals, and post‑implementation reviews to lock in benefits and control risk.
- Coordinate external advisors and auditors
- Scope, select, and manage external tax advisers for compliance and planning; drive quality, timelines, and value-for-fee outcomes.
- Serve as the primary contact for external auditors on tax areas; prepare technical papers and support smooth audit closure.
- Lead EU IP development tax strategy
- Partner with Engineering, Legal, and Finance to shape tax‑efficient IP development, ownership, and exploitation models across the EU, ensuring substance, transfer pricing alignment, and incentive optimization.
- Establish operating guidelines, intercompany arrangements, and compliance documentation for IP lifecycle decisions.
- Steer tax planning for EU-based global Engineering Centres
- In conjunction with Transfer pricing colleagues, develop and implement transfer pricing approaches for EU engineering hubs, aligning cost contribution or service models with functional profiles and DEMPE analysis.
- Develop and implement strategies to generate and efficiently utilise tax attributes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or related field
- ACA and/or CTA qualified
- Significant experience in Finance & Tax Operations.
- Strong people and project leadership, concise technical writing, ability to translate complex tax issues into business-ready recommendations, and operate with high integrity under time pressure.
- Skilled in coordinating external advisers and external auditors, setting scope, and driving quality and timelines.
Benefits
- Pension
- Bonus
- Life Assurance
- Group income protection
- Private medical cover
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
UK tax provisionCT600 filingsanti-hybrid assessmentsCorporate Interest Restriction compliancecash tax forecastingtax planningtransfer pricingtax attributesfinancial modellingaudit support
Soft Skills
project leadershiptechnical writingstakeholder communicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingtime managementintegrityrelationship managementquality assurance
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in AccountingBachelor’s degree in FinanceBachelor’s degree in EconomicsACA qualifiedCTA qualified