Tax Assistant - 12 Month FTC

Your main focused will be assisting with tax compliance and advisory projects within our organisation. This includes the regular corporation tax returns, including Video Games Tax Relief and Patent Box, as well as number of larger ongoing and new tax

projects.

To be successful you'll need to be organised, keeping track of a number of ongoing projects, tenacious and a good communicator.

What we're looking for:

• Work with the Tax Manager and external advisors to deliver project-based work, actively managing and prioritising to ensure timely completion. Projects could include innovation relief claims such as Video Games Tax Relief, Patent box and Research and Development claims
• Assist with the timely and accurate preparation, filing, and payment of all corporate tax returns, including UK as well as US federal, state, and international taxes
• Assist with indirect tax matters such as VAT returns, and Global Sales Tax, including monitoring risks and exposures.
• Assist with the statutory audit, including preparation of accurate tax provision calculations, tax- related financial disclosures, and compliance with tax reporting requirements under IFRS
• Work with the Tax Manager and external advisors to ensure the company holds transfer pricing policies and documentation, in compliance with applicable regulations and guidelines
• Assist with communications with tax authorities including tax audits, inquiries, and disputes. This may involve preparing and reviewing responses to tax notices and coordinate with external tax advisors and legal counsel as necessary.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to increase the profile and understanding of tax compliance requirements and gather the necessary information for tax reporting

What we're looking for:

• Knowledge of UK tax laws and regulations
• Previous experience in a tax role in a corporate organisation would be beneficial
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex tax regulations to non-financial stakeholders

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan,
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise. If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where in the UK you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.