Senior Finance Manager – Audit, Tax and Controls
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 04 Awst 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £70,000 per annum, Hybrid Working in our Amazing Leeds Office & Great Perks! |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | LS12 6LL |
| Cwmni: | thebigword |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 9765e20baa0e4aa5a3f4 |
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The Role Unveiled
Thebigword is one of Europe’s leading language services companies, and we’re expanding rapidly into the U.S. market with the backing of a leading private equity investor. This is a career-building opportunity for an ambitious finance professional to step into a pivotal, global role at a company that combines the scale and credibility of an established leader with the energy and agility of an entrepreneurial team.
You’ll join a modernising finance team with fresh leadership looking for a partner to drive innovation, improve processes, and strengthen controls across a global footprint. You’ll have the autonomy to make meaningful change, the platform to shape how the company handles audit, tax, and compliance, and the chance to do work that impacts investor confidence and enterprise value every day.
Your Role in Action
As Senior Manager – Audit, Tax and Controls, you will lead the company’s global audit and tax agenda and partner with the Finance Director and CFO to drive stronger governance, smarter processes, and better coordination across geographies. This is not a “keep the lights on” role, the right candidate will challenge legacy approaches, design and implement better ways of working, and turn patchy or imperfect data into reliable insights and processes. You’ll be the person who sees inefficiency as an opportunity, not a frustration, and who can make things happen in a complex, global environment.
You’ll lead statutory audit and tax activity across the UK, US, Netherlands, and India (with oversight of smaller markets like Japan and China) and will serve as a strategic oversight point for controls and compliance, working in partnership with the Senior Manager – Accounts, to ensure that day-to-day accounting controls support audit readiness, risk management, and statutory obligations, while coordinating closely with internal teams, external advisors, and dotted-line colleagues around the world.
Audit & Tax Leadership
- Lead and manage all group audits (UK, US, and others), ensuring on-time delivery of financial statements, tax returns, and compliance filings.
- Partner with the CFO and Finance Director to drive a coordinated global audit approach that reduces duplication and wasted effort between UK and US auditors.
- Own the annual R&D tax credit process, working with internal development leads and external tax advisors.
- Manage the UK tax submission process (preparation, queries, and CFO sign-off) and coordinate tax compliance across all other operating countries.
- Maintain a full understanding of each group company’s P&L and balance sheet, including transfer pricing adjustments and intercompany flows.
Controls & Compliance
- Support the Finance Director in designing and strengthening the company’s control and risk frameworks, ensuring they are practical and scalable.
- Partner with the Senior Manager – Accounts, who manages day-to-day accounting controls, to ensure those controls align with audit readiness, risk management, and statutory obligations.
- Serve as a senior point of review for work done by other finance teams—ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency.
- Provide advice on policy decisions (e.g., travel and expense policies, vendor compliance, treasury processes) from a risk and compliance perspective.
- Track and enforce compliance deadlines (statutory, tax, audit) across the group, making sure nothing slips through the cracks.
Process & Change Leadership
- Evaluate current audit and tax processes and tear down and rebuild where needed - not just tweak - so the business has simpler, smarter, and faster ways of working.
- Work with tax and audit vendors to set clear expectations, hold them accountable, and coordinate more efficient work globally.
- Co-lead, alongside the Senior Manager – Accounts, the integration of improvements coming from the upcoming Finance Transformation, Data & Tools project.
- Map peak audit/tax timelines and proactively secure surge support from the wider finance team to ensure bottlenecks don’t derail critical filings.
Cross-Border Coordination & Stakeholder Management
- Manage relationships with UK and US auditors, overseas tax advisors, and other external partners.
- Provide dotted-line oversight of overseas finance team members (particularly in India) on tax and compliance matters.
- Work closely with the CFO, Finance Director, and senior management to ensure the audit/tax function supports strategic decision-making and growth.
The Perfect Match: Your Skills & Talents
You’ll succeed in this role if you are:
- Proactive and unflappable – you thrive when things are messy or unclear and are comfortable “starting from scratch” when needed.
- A change maker – you don’t just follow processes, you design them, improve them, and have the confidence to push for smarter ways of working.
- Takes ownership and works independently – you’re comfortable operating with minimal supervision and driving outcomes forward.
- Detail-oriented but pragmatic – you care deeply about accuracy, but you balance it with a commercial mindset and focus on outcomes.
- A global thinker – you’ve worked in or alongside multinational organisations and understand the nuances of coordinating across jurisdictions.
- Comfortable with data and tools – you don’t shy away from large and imperfect datasets and can work through the noise to find clarity, whether using spreadsheets or more advanced tools such as SQL, Alteryx, or similar platforms.
- Comfortable navigating complex tax and audit concepts – you can cut through jargon, understand key issues, and work with advisors to get to practical, actionable solutions.
- Guides and mentors colleagues – you can support, coach, and hold team members to high standards, even those that don’t report to you directly.
- Drives accountability with stakeholders – you set expectations with auditors, tax advisors, and internal teams, and ensure follow-through.
Qualifications & Experience
Core Credentials & Framework Knowledge
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or equivalent).
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-country group audits (UK required; US strongly preferred).
- Strong working knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP; exposure to US GAAP is highly desirable.
- Experience with corporate tax compliance in the UK and awareness of US tax requirements.
- Familiarity with transfer pricing arrangements and how they affect intercompany accounting and reporting.
- Experience managing R&D tax credit claims and liaising with advisors to prepare supporting documentation.
- Understanding of VAT in the UK/EU and awareness of US sales tax considerations.
Process & Improvement Mindset
- Track record of improving or redesigning processes, particularly in audit, tax, or compliance functions.
- Comfortable working with imperfect data and implementing practical solutions.
Tools & Communication Skills
- Strong Excel and data manipulation skills, with bonus points for experience using SQL, Alteryx, or similar tools to work with larger datasets.
- Confident communicator able to engage with senior stakeholders, including Board-level.
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