Tax Manager

Role Overview

• Take ownership of UK corporation tax compliance, including preparation, review, and submission of tax computations and returns, ensuring accuracy and timely filing.
• Manage UK VAT compliance, overseeing reporting cycles, reviewing reconciliations, and ensuring appropriate controls are embedded.
• Oversee employment taxes, PAYE, and P11D processes in collaboration with HR, ensuring compliance with current legislation and internal policies.
• Serve as the main liaison for HMRC correspondence and enquiries, coordinating responses and working with external advisers where appropriate.
• Manage relationships with external tax advisers, reviewing deliverables, responding to queries, and ensuring accurate and timely submissions.
• Coordinate international tax compliance across the Group’s entities, ensuring information is gathered efficiently, and obligations are met across all jurisdictions.
• Lead on tax forecasting, provision calculations, and tax reporting for group accounts, working closely with Finance during month-end and year-end processes.
• Support transfer pricing documentation and intercompany arrangements, ensuring alignment with operational and commercial activity.
• Develop and implement tax policies, controls, and documentation to strengthen governance and support the move toward a co-sourced model.
• Monitor developments in UK and international tax legislation, assessing potential impact on the Group.
• Build strong working relationships across Finance and international teams, acting as a trusted internal contact for tax-related matters.

Requirements

• ACA, ACCA, or CTA qualified, with training within a recognised practice firm and a clear focus on corporate tax.
• 1–2 years’ post-qualification experience in a tax-focused role, ideally within practice.
• Strong technical grounding in UK corporate tax, with hands-on experience preparing and reviewing tax computations and returns.
• Solid understanding of VAT and employment taxes, with the ability to apply technical knowledge pragmatically.
• Exposure to multi-entity groups or international tax coordination (desirable but not essential).
• Experience liaising with external advisers and reviewing technical outputs.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines.
• Confident communicator, able to build effective relationships across teams, seniority levels, and geographies.
• Comfortable operating in a growing, evolving business where processes are still being defined.
• Genuinely motivated to build a long-term career in tax within an industry environment.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Bonus scheme
• Share scheme
• Hybrid working
• 25 days holiday plus all UK bank holidays
• 4x life assurance
• Enhanced family-friendly leave
• 5 months' full pay for maternity or adoption, plus 2 weeks' fully paid paternity/adoption leave and an extra 2 weeks to use as paid annual leave within 24 months of birth or adoption
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• free, confidential 24/7 support for you and your immediate family (including counselling, legal & financial advice, and wellbeing resources)
• Ongoing training & professional development
• Cycle to Work scheme
• save up to 40% on bikes and accessories through salary sacrifice
• Eyecare vouchers
• free eye test and contribution towards prescription glasses
• Regular social events
• Employee recognition and awards