Tax Specialist

Company Description
- We’re re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives. That includes the lives of everyone who works for Anglo American. We strive to be a great company where employees are happy, inspired to do their best work. A place where every colleague can grow, develop and realise their potential. To live up to our Always with Purpose employee value proposition, we’re putting the development and growth of colleagues first by ensuring everyone at Anglo American has the career experience they deserve.

**Job Description**:

- The Tax Specialist supports the Tax Manager to help drive forward the Group Tax vision of driving a world class, dynamic, flexible, and empowered global tax team contributing to commercial success and delivering sustainable value, with a particular focus on the Crop Nutrients business and groupwide activities in the UK & Europe.

**This role is based in Resolution House, Scarborough.
**Your duties will include**:

- Act as business partner, helping to foster and enable the connection and the dialogue between the Crop Nutrients business in particular and other Anglo American businesses operating in the UK & Europe and Group Tax.
- Support development of strategic priorities and focus areas for Group Tax involving Business and/or Corporate Functions as a result of further business model change.
- Identify tax risks and opportunities arising from the Group’s evolving business model and assist in the development of solutions and actions as required to deliver/protect value for the Group in line with the Group’s Tax Operating Framework.
- Manage and or support delivery the implementation of identified strategic priorities and initiatives, including the communication required at different levels of the organisation.
- Helping to build the relationship with the local tax authorities, in particular HMRC in the UK.
- Implement tax risk mitigation strategies.
- Support the implementation of changes to process, controls and systems in relation to local tax rules.
- Identify and implement appropriate tax planning opportunities.
- Raise awareness of tax issues, including assisting to effectively communicate tax issues to management.
- Manage external professional service providers on tax matters.
- Provide tax support to the Business Units and Group Functions with a view to identifying risk and opportunities and implementing advice and/or solutions as appropriate Support local implementation of Group Tax initiatives and strategic priorities.

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**Qualifications**:

- Either a Chartered Accountant or equivalent accounting or legal degree.

**Knowledge and experience required**:

- Strong, practical knowledge of the UK tax system and in particular, a good working knowledge of the UK tax regime as it relates to capital intensive and/ or resource businesses would be preferable.
- Transfer pricing experience in relation to loan relationships and a good working knowledge of international tax principles, tax residence etc would be an advantage.
- How to influence people and manage change and effectively communicate ideas and solutions to senior management.
- Ability to undertake presentations to Senior Management.
- Efficient work practices & the ability to work independently is expected.

**Ability to**:

- Analyse a whole host of information and extract the pertinent facts and make a sound tax analysis thereof.
- Demonstrate strategic thinking - ability to analyse complex and wide-ranging issues, design strategies to manage those issues and develop ideas into practical solutions.
- Demonstrate well-developed analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrate a high degree of commercial acumen.
- Manage multiple tasks concurrently and work to deadlines.
- Communicate key tax issues appropriately, with an ability to adapt tax advice accordingly depending on audience

**Additional Information
- Who we are**

We aim to lead the industry by pursuing ever safer and more responsible ways of working, demonstrating integrity and showing care and respect for people and the planet. That means we are constantly seeking new opportunities to mine and process our products sustainably, using less water, less energy and more precise extraction technologies. As the custodians of coal and other precious natural resources - diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore and nickel - our extraordinary teams work safely and collaboratively, with the utmost consideration for local communities, our customers and the world at large.

**How we are committed to your safety**

Nothing is more important to us than ensuring you return home safely after a day’s work. To make that happen, we have the most rigorous safety standards in the industry. Not only that, we’re also continually investing in new technologies - from drones to data analytics - that are helping to make mining safer.

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