Tax Reporting & Compliance Manager

Position Summary:

The Tax Reporting & Compliance Manager will be responsible for ensuring that accurate and complete financial information is available to external tax compliance providers across all monthly, quarterly, and annual filing cycles (excluding payroll). This role will oversee the end to end preparation, review, and delivery of core tax compliance data, while maintaining strong governance and ensuring adherence to statutory and regulatory requirements.

Location:

London - UK - Fenchurch

What will your job entail?

Key Responsibilities:

Trial Balance & Supporting Documentation Oversight

• •Co-ordinate with Finance to ensure timely provision of Trial Balance data required for outsourced VAT and Corporate Tax compliance.
• •Co-ordinate with Finance to ensure that revenue and expense accounts are fully supported with appropriate documentation, assisting in resolving tax technical issues with outsource providers.

Balance Sheet Control & Reconciliations

• •Review the reconciliation process for all VAT and Corporate Tax‑related balance sheet accounts.
• •Review and challenge reconciling items, ensuring timely remediation and maintaining a high standard of financial control.

Tax‑Sensitive Account Analysis

• •Oversee the preparation of routine analyses of tax‑sensitive accounts—preferably monthly or quarterly—including:
• •Legal & Professional fees
• •Fixed asset additions/disposals
• •Hospitality & Entertainment

Ensure analyses are accurate, appropriately evidenced, and aligned to tax authority and audit expectations.

Tax Liability Management

• •Approve and oversee the timely payment of all tax liabilities across relevant jurisdictions (excluding payroll).
• •Ensure payment controls, deadlines, and cash flow considerations are managed effectively.

Trial Balance to Statutory Accounts Reconciliation

• •Review and validate reconciliations for tax accounts between management Trial Balance data and statutory accounts, specifically Irrecoverable VAT balances
• •Support audit and tax authority enquiries by ensuring reconciliations are robust, accurate, and well‑documented (including payroll).

Tax Reporting & Provisioning

• •Working collaboratively with UK Finance and US Tax Team obtain necessary information for tax compliance purposes for monthly, quarterly and annual tax compliance and reporting obligation (eg Corporate tax payments on account, CIR, CbCR).
• •Prepare or review tax provisioning calculations ensuring accurate computation of current and deferred tax charges/credits as well as disclosure notes (tax reconciliations, deferred tax classifications, uncertain tax positions), aligned to accounting standards. Ensure good documentation in support of all entries and agree same with the auditors.
• •Lead on preparing tax forecast modelling for the International business specifically on current and deferred tax charges, cash tax payments and similar matters.

Project and Advisory

• •Assist the Head of Tax in providing tax technical support to ensure tax informed business decisions are made.
• •Assist the Head of Tax where possible on projects such as Mergers and Acquisitions, process and system improvements for tax compliance and governance.

Experience with Workday Finance and US Sox would be preferred

Confident with Excel spreadsheet manipulation (pivot tables, sorting etc) highly desirable.

Disclaimer

Ryan Specialty is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse workforce throughout the organization. Our vision is an inclusive and equitable workplace where all employees are valued for and evaluated on their performance and contributions. Differences in race, creed, color, religious beliefs, physical or mental capabilities, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, and many other characteristics bring together varied perspectives and add value to the service we provide our clients, trading partners, and communities. This policy extends to all aspects of our employment practices, including but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, discipline, firing, promoting, transferring, compensation, benefits, training, leaves of absence, and other terms, conditions, and benefits of employment.