Tax and Treasury Assistant

**Job Title**:Tax and Treasury Assistant

**Salary**: £Competitive + excellent benefits (bonus, pension, healthcare, life cover etc.)

**Location**: Hybrid - Knutsford, Manchester

**About the role**

The Tax and Treasury Assistant provides key support to members of this specialist team in Group Finance. The role is a pathway to becoming a qualified tax or treasury professional and, in addition to work on core tax compliance and treasury activities, the Tax and Treasury Assistant will have exposure to various projects across different technical areas.

This role will include several core, recurring activities from both a tax and treasury perspective, such as preparing periodic VAT returns and daily/weekly cash flow forecasting and analysis. Around this structure of regular, core tasks, the role will focus on assisting either the Group Tax Manager or Group Treasury Manager with certain projects.

**What you’ll do**

**Treasury**:

- Reporting actual cash flow performance and performing variance analysis
- Supporting the cash flow forecasting process
- Updating bank mandates and administering bank account parameters and systems
- Liaising with transactional teams regarding payment solutions
- Assisting with hedging contracts (e.g., FX, swaps)
- Monitoring bank/lender covenants and supporting related lender/agent obligations
- Managing intragroup financing

**Tax**:

- Supporting UK corporation tax and VAT return preparation
- Handling routine tax queries relating to payroll and employment matters
- Annual preparation of UK employment/payroll forms, e.g., P11Ds and PSAs
- Assisting with USA federal and state tax compliance (and possibly other overseas territories)
- Liaising with external tax advisors regarding transfer pricing documentation and calculations

**About you**
- Bachelor’s Degree or A-level (or overseas equivalent) educational background
- Minimum of 1 year in a professional services/accountancy environment or a similar in-house role (PQ CCAB qualified desirable, e.g., ICAEW, ICAS, CIMA)
- Strong MS Excel skills (financial or treasury modelling desirable)
- Must be self-motivated, professional, detail oriented, and comfortable working to regular deadlines (e.g., cash reporting cycle)
- Initiative, willingness to learn quickly
- Advanced PC and/or Mac experience with all MS Office Suite

**About Fishawack Health**

Fishawack Health (FH) is a leading global commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.

The future of health is fast-paced and complex, demanding a different approach. Established in 2001, our 1,300+ healthcare experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our 4 core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Policy, Access, Value, Evidence; and Marketing.

Working across the product and service lifecycle, together with our teammates in shared creative teams (Creative Studio, Editorial Services, Motion, Digital, Events, and Media) and Group Services, we engage our collective force to innovate and solve the complex healthcare challenges of today and tomorrow.

We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: _We are authentic. We value difference. We play for the team. We own the challenge. We enjoy the journey._ At Fishawack Health, we imagine a healthier world and build the connections to make it happen.

**What we can offer**

Fishawack Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization to encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and innovative solutions. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have offices in 19 city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.

**Reasonable adjustments**

We'll consider any reasonable adjustments you'd like us to put in place in the interests of fairness and equal opportunities.

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