VAT Manager

What are we looking for in our VAT Manager?

HYBRID Role - 3 days a week in, 2 from home

Salary = £75,000 - £85,000

People Management experience essential

This role supports the VAT Lead in ensuring that:

• The business fully meets its external VAT reporting obligations and is compliant with all applicable indirect tax legislation.
• Appropriate indirect tax opportunities are identified and executed in line with commercial decisions and the business's Tax Strategy.
• High quality technical tax advice is provided on a pro-active and timely basis.
• Robust internal policies, processes and controls are maintained from a Senior Accounting Officer and Business Risk Rating perspective.
• Business-as-usual operations are running effectively and efficiently for VAT purposes.

As the VAT Manager, you will be dealing with a complex array of commercial and technical issues which involve tackling large amounts of data and high value sums. As well as managing the end-to-end reporting and compliance process, this role will also support in ensuring that a suitable governance framework is in place and that any process improvements are routinely considered and implemented particularly with reference to the Finance Team’s digitisation / automation goals. You will be expected to partner with key stakeholders within finance and the wider business to manage risk and to collaboratively bring about workable solutions to multifaceted challenges.

You should be comfortable managing through change and adept at simplifying complex tax issues, communicating effectively at different levels and bringing a broad knowledge of tax and commercial concepts to bear on processes and discussions.