Employment Tax Advisor

BBC Group and Public Services; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media organization in London seeks an Employment Tax Advisor to join their Tax team. This permanent role requires a professional accounting qualification and offers a salary between £50,000 and £60,000, plus London weighting. The advisor will support various stakeholders in meeting compliance and providing strategic tax advice within a dynamic working environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working hour

Annual leave plus extra days option

Defined pension scheme

Discounted health care and gym

Qualifications

• Experience in providing employment tax advice in a complex organization.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and incomplete data.
• Organized and able to multi-task to meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice on employment tax issues for UK and overseas businesses.
• Support with HMRC reviews and relationship development.
• Lead the Mandatory payrolling of benefits project.

Skills

Employment tax advice

Stakeholder management

Organizational skills

Collaborative working

Education

Professional accounting and/or tax qualification (ACA, ATT, CTA)

Job description

Overview

JOB TITLE: In-house title is Finance Business Analyst

DEPARTMENT: Tax team, BBC Group Finance

LOCATION: London based - Hybrid working

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £50,000 - £60,000 (plus London Weighting £5,441pa if London based), depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you would like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Purpose of the Role

We're now seeking an Employment Tax Advisor to join the BBC Tax team. This is a permanent role, based in London.

This role sits in Group Tax and reports to the Employment Tax finance business partner, alongside five finance business partners, who manage corporate tax, VAT, employment taxes and expatriate taxes; three accountants who complete the UK VAT and corporate tax compliance; and a trainee.

There are also tax managers in the US and India, who support with taxes in those jurisdictions. The BBC offers a complex and dynamic environment that provides excellent technical development through exposure to a wide range of issues and interaction with a wide range of stakeholders, both internally and externally.

Why Join the Team

The Employment Tax Advisor role is centred around supporting the BBC Group to meet its statutory obligations in respect of Employment Tax. The role will be a mix of compliance and advisory and will provide the Employment Tax Advisor with a breadth of experience across the Employment Tax space.

You will provide professional Employment Tax support to a range of stakeholders, ensuring the BBC Group meets Employment Tax compliance obligations. You will be part of the BBC Group Tax team, and report specifically to the Employment Tax Finance Business Partner.

The BBC offers a complex and dynamic environment that provides excellent technical development through exposure to a wide range of issues and interaction with a wide range of stakeholders, both internally and externally.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact

As an Employment Tax Advisor you will:

• provide advice and support relating to the employment tax (ET) issues of our UK and overseas businesses. This will include working closely with colleagues to drive business performance via the provision of objective advice, insight and challenge
• support the UK businesses with HMRC reviews; assist in developing our relationship with HMRC
• provide updates and recommendations to the business, including HR and Payroll on new ET legislation. This will include leading the Mandatory payrolling of benefits project
• provide technical review and analysis of annual ET filings including the PSAs and forms P11D, as well as looking at innovative solutions to expedite the processes
• continually evaluate ways in which existing Employment Tax process across the BBC group can be further aligned, improved, automated and efficiencies created ensure effective governance, risk management and internal compliance processes and controls are in place
• support the development and implementation of all financial policies and procedures ensuring that these contain appropriate methodologies, internal controls and processes. This will include providing employment tax input to wider initiatives such as Senior Accounting Officer requirements

Your Skills and Experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Experience of providing employment tax advice in a complex organisation - able to deal with ambiguity, imprecise or incomplete data and other people's time constraints in requesting information and delivering practical advice.
• Professional accounting and/or tax qualification ACA, ATT, CTA or equivalent
• Organised - Able to multi-task and prioritise effectively to meet deadlines
• Stakeholder management - building relationships and trust within an organisation
• Collaborative working - working effectively as part of a diverse team

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• in-house experience is desirable but not essential.

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate Pack

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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