Interim Indirect Tax Manager

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. 

Following separation from a FTSE 250 PLC, the Fastmarkets finance team are establishing a new standalone tax function and this role is critical in being part of a team that delivers the functionality with associated processes and establishes them as business as usual.

The role will require a highly dynamic individual, who can implement, document, execute indirect tax covering EMEA, APAC and the USA.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Review of Avalara set up and logic to determine tax and identify/implement changes required for full global compliance.
• Review of Avalara product codes set up and implement any required changes.
• Review of all invoice templates and identify/implement changes required for full compliance.
• Set up VAT controls with Internal Controls Manager, including all indirect tax related balance sheet reconciliations.
• Create playbooks for resolution of common issues, review of all registrations and drive any new registrations/de-registrations required
• Complete the implementation of the PwC indirect tax system, EDGE, designing processes to load data into EDGE.
• Establish processes to monitor requirements for new indirect tax registrations across the business.
• Document core processes
• Maintain a strong risk and control framework around tax processes.
• Support Head of Group Reporting and Tax and Group Tax Manager on ad hoc projects

KEY INTERFACES

• Finance Leadership Team
• The outsourced tax team at PwC
• Finance Teams
• External VAT specialists

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Experience

• Strong experience in global indirect tax compliance
• Experience implementing tax processes and systems
• Experience in a fast paced environment
• Experience of influencing senior colleagues and demonstratable desire to do the right thing even when under challenge

Skills and knowledge

• Can challenge current practices and think innovatively in executing work.
• Able to take the lead in designing and implementing processes.
• Able to work independently and manage multiple deadlines
• Strong communication skills with a collaborative stakeholder management approach
• Able to solve problems with creative and pragmatic ideas and uses sound judgements based on risk assessment.
• Attention to detail, ability to rapidly understand end to end business operation and inherent risks
• Excellent knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Word and Accounting Systems.

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
   
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
   
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
   
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
   
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
   
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.