Job Description

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 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond.

With an ever increasingly complex indirect tax global landscape, Fastmarkets is restructuring its in-house tax team to bring in an indirect tax specialist to manage the day-to-day indirect tax obligations of the Group

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Compliance responsibilities

• The preparation of all the Group’s Indirect Tax Returns for all companies in the Group, including VAT, Sales Taxes and Digital Service Taxes. The Group is currently registered for VAT in 20 countries and for US Sales Taxes in c.20 States.
• Ensuring all indirect tax payments are made accurately and on time
• Ensuring the Group’s finance systems – NetSuite, Esker, Zone, Pleo, Avalara - calculate the correct indirect taxes and file compliant returns
• Ensuring all registrations are up to date by identifying new indirect taxes obligations in countries and states
• Prepare and maintain VAT control account reconciliations, ensuring balances are accurate, fully explained, and reconciled to VAT returns, payments and refunds.
• Investigate and resolve reconciling items on a timely basis, working closely with finance teams where required.
• Ensure VAT control account reconciliations operate as an effective key control within the indirect tax governance framework.
• Preparing and submitting EC Sales Lists, Intrastat and any other recapitulative or statistical filings required across the Group’s registrations.
• Monitoring and implementing e-invoicing, e-reporting and digital reporting obligations across the Group (including UK Making Tax Digital and EU ViDA developments), ensuring systems and processes remain compliant as new mandates take effect.
• Determining the correct VAT and sales-tax place of supply for the Group’s electronically supplied services, subscriptions and events, including operation of OSS / non-Union OSS and monitoring of US sales-tax economic nexus.
• Maintaining the Group’s input VAT recovery position, including any partial exemption method and recovery on professional and transaction-related costs.
• Ensuring all products are categorised correctly from an indirect tax spec
• Managing the end-to-end process for new indirect tax registrations
• Managing responses to the Tax Authority enquiries.

Accounting and Forecasting responsibilities

• Accurate weekly forecast of indirect tax payments

Process and system responsibilities

• Ensuring indirect tax systems and processes are optimised to maintain cost efficiency and high levels of accuracy

Other responsibilities

• Create and manage a global tax compliance calendar to monitor all filing and payment deadlines.
• Manage the tax residency certification process for the Group.
• To maintain, update and write tax manuals as applicable to the Group.
• Communicate complex indirect tax matters clearly and confidently to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Build collaborative and effective working relationships across finance, legal and wider business teams.

KEY INTERFACES

• The Finance team
• The outsourced tax team at PwC and VAT IT
• The Events Operations Team
• Tax authorities

Qualifications

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.

The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant and/or tax advisor, with experience working either in an in-house tax team of a global group covering indirect taxes or an accounting firm providing indirect tax compliance and advisory services. They will have strong technical knowledge of UK and international indirect taxes.

It is critical that the individual has experience of preparing balance sheet reconciliations. Ideally the candidate will have circa five or more years of relevant indirect tax experience, with hands-on exposure to multi-jurisdiction VAT and US sales tax and familiarity with e-invoicing and digital reporting obligations.

The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA) and/or a qualified tax advisor (CTA).

The successful candidate will also have a continuous improvement mindset regarding processes and either have experience in or an interest in using AI to increase efficiencies and accuracy.

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

Additional Information

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.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

Reward and benefits at Fastmarkets

We believe in fair pay and benefits that support you both inside and outside of work. Through Fastmarkets Rewards, you'll have access to a range of core benefits and a flexible allowance, giving you the freedom to tailor your package to suit your lifestyle, wellbeing and financial priorities. We know that everyone's needs are different, so we've designed our benefits to support our diverse global team wherever they're based.

Specific benefits may vary by country and role.

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.