Compliance and Reporting - Director

About CFGI: Corporate Finance Group, Inc. (“CFGI”) was founded in 2000 by former Big 4 professionals. CFGI is an established industry leader with the resources to successfully navigate today’s complex accounting, reporting, compliance and tax landscape. An assemblage of top-flight professionals with in-depth public accounting expertise, CFGI can fulfill a variety of client needs without the restrictions of auditor independence. With a foundation of knowledge amassed while serving a variety of industries, CFGI is able to guide companies through a wide range of routine and complex business scenarios. The resulting partnership is an innovative resource with the power to address our clients’ most crucial accounting, finance and operational challenges.   We provide our clients with a unique combination of integrity, flexibility, creative solutions, and deep tax technical expertise. Many of our clients are global, market leading, publicly held companies, while others are privately held, early stage, or venture-backed emerging businesses. Here at CFGI, we place a high value on a culture of continued learning, where teamwork is encouraged, and professional excellence is rewarded.   In 2022, CFGI opened its London office (its first outside the US) and achieved fantastic revenue in the first full year of trading, primarily derived from the accounting advisory practice. In January 2023 the UK tax practice was formed and the UK tax partner is looking to quickly assemble a high-quality team of tax professionals to grow the tax business and provide clients with an exceptional and differentiated service.    Overview of role:   CFGI seeks a highly motivated tax director to join its UK tax team. This role will provide a fantastic opportunity for an individual who is driven, entrepreneurial and constantly looking to challenge the status quo around the UK tax services industry.     You will be involved in all aspects of UK corporate tax (advisory, compliance, reporting and governance) and will have direct interaction with both our clients and senior members of the UK tax team in order to deliver these services.   1.     Client service delivery         a)     Tax advisory You will be involved in tax advisory work likely to include the following: ·       Ad hoc corporate tax advisory work originating from compliance engagements – e.g. loss planning and utilization, tax implications of trade and asset transfers, interest deductibility. ·       Cash tax modelling exercises. ·       Group simplification exercises. ·       Tax due diligence for client transactions. ·       Tax structuring for client transactions. It is likely that a significant proportion of tax advisory work will arise on private equity backed clients and therefore an advanced understanding of the tax implications of the private equity ownership model and the investment lifecycle are highly desirable. You should have knowledge / experience of advising clients on some or all of the following: ·       Immediate post-acquisition tax actions, e.g. preparation of “post-acq tax checklist”, implementation of any structural actions, remediation of key tax DD items, withholding tax management, and coverage of non-corporate tax items such as VAT on transaction costs. ·       Refinancing, bolt-ons, group simplification and reorganization. ·       Tax compliance related advisory (e.g. interest deductibility, anti-hybrids, transaction costs). ·       Exit readiness (e.g. healthcheck reviews). ·       Exit support (vendor assist role: tax DD support and negotiation, exit structuring, transaction balance sheet).   b)    UK corporation tax compliance, reporting and governance:   You will be responsible for overseeing the preparation and submission of UK corporation tax returns for our clients. In collaboration with the UK Tax Partner, you will assist with the design and implementation of a UK corporation tax compliance service offering, that is high quality, efficient and cost effective for ... (truncated, view full listing at source)