The Role
Leads global mobility tax services for international clients, managing compliance and advisory work across UK income tax, payroll tax, social security, tax returns, shadow payrolls, and reconciliations. Builds client and global partner relationships, reviews and signs off tax returns, develops junior staff, supports proposals and RFPs, and helps grow and improve the Global Mobility offering.
Summary Generated by Built In
The world of work is constantly changing, and Global Mobility is no longer simply about international assignments and secondments. Businesses increasingly operate across borders, bringing both opportunity and complexity.
Our Global Mobility team helps clients navigate that complexity, supporting international expansion, global remote working and mobility programmes. Working with our global partner network, we provide support across immigration, permanent establishment, income tax, social security, payroll tax and Global HR Services, complementing activpayroll’s global payroll offering.
As Senior Manager, you will play a key role in delivering and growing our mobility tax services. You’ll manage a portfolio of international clients, provide technical expertise, develop trusted client relationships and support the continued development of our team and services.
On a typical day...
- You will manage a portfolio of international clients, delivering mobility tax compliance and advisory services.
- You will act as a trusted point of contact for clients, providing practical advice on UK income tax, payroll tax and social security matters.
- You will oversee tax compliance activity, including UK tax returns, shadow payrolls and year-end reconciliations, working with our global partners to coordinate requirements in other jurisdictions.
- You will review and sign off UK tax returns and provide technical guidance on complex mobility tax matters.
- You will build strong relationships with our global partner network to ensure seamless service delivery across jurisdictions.
- You will support and develop junior team members, sharing technical knowledge and helping them grow as professional advisers.
- You will contribute to business development, including prospective client conversations, proposals and RFP responses.
- You will work with the Global Mobility leadership team to identify opportunities to improve and grow our services.
Does this sound like you?
- Extensive experience in international mobility tax, spanning expatriate tax compliance and advisory work.
- Strong UK tax knowledge, with experience preparing, reviewing and signing off UK tax returns and advising on income tax, payroll tax and social security.
- Excellent client relationship skills, with the confidence to make complex tax matters clear and practical.
- Excellent organisation and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple clients and deadlines.
- Commercial confidence, including discussing services with prospective clients and contributing to proposals and RFPs.
- A collaborative approach and the ability to build effective relationships with colleagues and partners around the world.
- A genuine interest in developing others and helping to grow our Global Mobility offering.
About
Our Story From our entrepreneurial origins as a founder led start up, to a high performing global player working with some of the world's most recognisable brands, activpayroll has both a fantastic history and masses of future potential. Our story began in 2001, when our founder saw a gap in the market to support the oil and gas industry. Today, we are a leading global professional service organisation, providing integrated global and domestic payroll solutions, expatriate taxation services, global HR services and online HR people management tools to over 1,200 companies in more than 150 countries worldwide. We’ve Got YouHiring people is more than an investment of time and money – it’s an investment of trust. You trust us to help you realise your fullest potential, work with brilliant people and recognise your achievements. In return, we trust your abilities, we trust your instincts and are fully behind you to deliver the great work you are capable of - empowering you to make the tough calls and valuing your opinions, ideas and abilities.
Skills Required
- Extensive experience in international mobility tax, including expatriate tax compliance and advisory work
- Strong UK tax knowledge
- Experience preparing, reviewing, and signing off UK tax returns
- Experience advising on income tax, payroll tax, and social security
- Excellent client relationship and communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple clients and deadlines with strong organization and attention to detail
- Commercial confidence in prospective client discussions, proposals, and RFP responses
- Ability to collaborate with colleagues and global partners
- Interest in developing junior team members and growing the Global Mobility offering
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The Company
What We Do
Created to let your business work seamlessly in multiple countries by giving you complete clarity and confidence, activpayroll is global payroll, international payments, global mobility and HR in one. Pay your people compliantly, on time, every time, worldwide. Take control with accessible tech. Team up with global tax specialists to stay one step ahead of legislation and compliance. Strengthen your workforce with our strategic HR specialists, and work with a partner that gets your vision of global clarity. Wherever in the world your business takes you, we’ve got you.
