Head of Tax - Part Time

Overview

Avalere Health brings together Advisory, Medical, and Marketing teams to forge unconventional connections and build a future where healthcare is not a barrier and no patient is left behind. We emphasize purpose-driven careers, diversity and inclusion, flexible working arrangements, and opportunities for global mobility and professional growth. We are committed to supporting employees with family planning, mental health resources, and a culture that values authentic contributions.

We are an accredited Fertility Friendly employer and support six Employee Network Groups: Diverse Ability, Family, Gender, LGBTQ+, Mental Health, and Race/Ethnicity. Our Disability Confident stance ensures fair interviewing for candidates with disabilities or neurodiversity, with adjustments available on request.

Role overview: The Group Tax Manager is a senior tax professional responsible for leading Avalere Health’s global tax compliance, reporting, advisory and risk management activities. This role provides strategic tax leadership across entities and jurisdictions while ensuring full regulatory compliance. The role collaborates with finance teams, external advisers, auditors, and tax authorities to optimise the Group’s tax position and governance. This is a part‑time opportunity (3 days per week, flexible on non-working days).

Role

The Group Tax Manager is a senior tax professional responsible for leading and managing Avalere Health’s global tax compliance, reporting, advisory and risk management activities. This role will provide strategic tax leadership across all entities and jurisdictions, while ensuring full compliance with applicable tax laws and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Tax Strategy & Advisory: Develop and maintain the Group's tax strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and best practice.
• Serve as the primary tax advisor to the CFO and senior leadership, providing commercially relevant guidance on all tax matters.
• Identify and communicate tax implications of business decisions, transactions, restructurings, and new business models.
• Advise on tax-efficient structures, M&A activity, and corporate restructuring projects.
• Monitor changes in domestic and international tax legislation, communicating impacts to the Board and relevant stakeholders.
• Support legal entity rationalisation, ERP implementations and finance transformation projects from a tax perspective.
• Tax Compliance & Reporting: Own the Group's tax compliance obligations across all jurisdictions, including corporate income tax, VAT/indirect tax, employment taxes, and withholding taxes.
• Oversee the preparation and timely submission of all Group tax returns.
• Prepare and review tax provisions and disclosures under IFRS, UK GAAP, or US GAAP, including deferred tax, for inclusion in statutory financial statements.
• Lead year-end and interim tax reporting processes, ensuring accuracy and compliance with applicable accounting standards.
• Maintain and reconcile the Group's tax provisions against filed returns.
• Transfer Pricing: Develop, maintain, and continuously improve the Group's transfer pricing policy, ensuring it is OECD-compliant and fit for purpose across all jurisdictions.
• Oversee the preparation and maintenance of transfer pricing documentation, including Master File and Local Files.
• Manage intercompany pricing arrangements and ensure timely recording of transfer pricing adjustments.
• International Tax & Regulatory Compliance: Lead the Group's Country-by-Country (CbC) reporting and Pillar Two (OECD) compliance obligations.
• Ensure compliance with Corporate Interest Restriction (CIR) rules and monitor relevant thresholds.
• Manage Senior Accounting Officer (SAO) and Criminal Finances Act obligations.
• Act as the primary point of contact for HMRC and other tax authorities; manage tax audits and enquiries, both in the UK and overseas.
• Maintain and develop a robust Tax Control Framework and governance structure.
• Risk Assessment & Mitigation: Develop and maintain the Group Tax Risk Framework.
• Ensure strong internal tax controls.
• Manage tax audits and enquiries from tax authorities; maintain appropriate documentation supporting tax positions.
• Assess permanent establishment risks arising from employee relocation, remote working and international presence.
• Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with finance teams across the business; partner with legal, treasury, HR, payroll and commercial teams; manage relationships with external auditors and tax advisers; present tax matters to senior management when required.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve tax processes and controls; support automation of tax reporting and compliance activities.

What we can offer

You'll receive up to a 7% pension contribution, life insurance, income protection, and private medical insurance for peace of mind. Enjoy flexible working arrangements, including flexible hybrid working, along with the option to work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year. We provide 25 days of annual leave plus two personal well-being days, along with gifted end-of-year holidays and an early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August.

Access free counselling through our employee assistance program, as well as personalized health support. Enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies provide support across every stage of your family-planning journey, as well as on-demand support from our partner Peppy. You can also benefit from continuous opportunities to professionally develop with on-demand training, support, and global mobility opportunities across the business.

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