Charmaine Veriah

I'm Charmaine, born in Malaysia, moved to the UK to study and thereafter worked in the Big 4. I am fluent in English, Mandarin and Malay. My profession is UK tax, have years of experience in mobility tax and am ATT qualified. I strongly believe that there are so many opportunities in life to take. I enjoy working and collaborating with team and strongly believe that a work environment is very important. I want to help nurture a company to perform at peak efficiency, and sincerely hope that one day I can manage my own team where people fully trust and depend on.

KPMG, United Kingdom, Assistant Tax Manager – Global Mobility Services Sept 2022 – Present 

• Provide bi-weekly updates to the client on compliance season, work in hand and any key deadlines on advisory work. 
• Carry out cost projection calculations to estimates tax costs for the employer and employee for relocation move. 
• Act as the central team and support country teams with any additional services required and review special work requests. 
• Prepare monthly bill, including analyzing WIP, reviewing diary notes and raising invoices. 
• Prepare for quarterly meeting, including manage key SLAs and provide service updates. 

Ernst & Young LLP, United Kingdom, Tax Advisor – People Advisory Services, Mobility Sept 2019 – Aug 2022 

• Provide call and email exchanges to clients on personal tax advice, including tax code queries, s9a enquiry, tax returns etc. 
• Preparation of advisory work, such as termination advice, capital gains tax, pension advice, residency analysis etc. 
• Correspond to HM Revenue and Customs on penalties notice, tax code amendments, repayment status etc. 
• Reconcile monthly refund projects with a third-party provider, produce quarterly review meetings to analyse tax savings. 
• Weekly exec stakeholder meeting with senior manager to manage expectations on the current advisory work. 

TaxAid, United Kingdom, EY Volunteers Nov 2021 – Aug 2022 

• Collate information from taxpayers and TaxAid to resolve taxpayer’s query, including the filing of tax returns, calculation of allowable expenditure, and compare the best approach to reduce taxable income along with correspond to HMRC fast track helpline for support. 

PricewaterhouseCoopers, Malaysia, Intern – Corporate Tax Jul 2018 – Sept 2018 

• Review line items of allowable expenditure and cross reference financial statement information to corporate tax return. 
• Translate documents from English to Malay, correspond to Inland Revenue on the status of documents submitted. 

PricewaterhouseCoopers, Malaysia, Intern- Assurance Jul 2017 – Sept 2017 

• Correspond with client to carry out intercompany confirmation and stock count from floor to map and map to floor. 
• Vouch 300 sales according to stores, months to verify accounts are true and also got bank confirmation for each of it. 
• Support casting and cross-referencing for Financial Statements and look through format and spacing for each entity. 
• Summarise contracts, tenants and meeting minutes from the information provided by the client into our software. 

UNICEF Warwick, UK, Fundraiser Oct 2016 – Dec 2016 

• Set up fundraising page to help children suffering from chronic malnutrition in Liberia and participate in fast24. 

Jog For Hope, Malaysia, Administration team & Recruiter 2015 & 2013 

• Recruit 50 people to donate and participate through setting up booths in high school, giving out early bird discounts, goody bags and t-shirt to market and promote event. 

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS 

Warwick Business School, BSc Accounting and Finance (Year 1: First class) Oct 2016 – June 2019 

• Modules include: Financial Accounting, Economics for Business, Business Law 

Taylor’s College Sri Hartamas, Malaysia, Cambridge A-levels (UCAS point: 360) Jan 2015 – June 2016 

• Modules include: Accounting, Mathematics, Economics 

Chong Hwa Independent High School, Malaysia, SPM (Grade: A+ to B+) Jan 2010 – Nov 2014 

• Modules include: English, Additional Mathematics, Economy, Accounting