Indirect Tax Compliance and Systems Specialist

Centrica plc; Windsor; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at a forward-thinking energy company as an Indirect Tax Compliance and Systems Specialist. This role is pivotal in ensuring VAT compliance across complex billing systems while driving system enhancements. You will leverage your VAT expertise and data analysis skills to support compliance in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment. Collaborate with various teams to address VAT challenges and improve processes, making a significant impact on the company's journey towards a sustainable future. If you're passionate about sustainability and eager to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Health and wellness programs

Employee assistance program

Career development opportunities

Generous parental leave

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Taxation, or Data Analytics required.
• Experience in VAT compliance and project management is essential.

Responsibilities

• Ensure VAT compliance across complex billing systems and integrate tax processes.
• Lead VAT compliance projects and analyze large datasets for trends.

Skills

VAT compliance

Data analysis

Project management

Systems integration

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance

Bachelor’s degree in Taxation

Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics

Tools

Data analytics tools

Billing systems

Job description

Indirect Tax Compliance and Systems Specialist

Indirect Tax Compliance and Systems Specialist

Apply locations Windsor time type Full time posted on Posted 7 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: December 30, 2024 (4 days left to apply) job requisition id R0067441

Join us, be part of more.

We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

About your team:

You’ll be working centrally within our mission control room, aka Centrica’s group functions. From Finance and Data Science, to our Wellbeing and People teams - this is the engine of our energy system, where our various Centres of Excellence power up each of our brilliant businesses, ensuring they have all the support, technologies, and capabilities they need to get our customers to Net Zero by 2050.

Job Title: Indirect Tax Compliance and Systems Specialist

Purpose of the Role
The role ensures VAT compliance across complex billing systems, integrates tax processes into operational platforms, and drives improvements in tax reporting and controls. The position combines VAT expertise, systems knowledge, and project management skills to support compliance in a dynamic, regulation-driven environment.

Key Responsibilities

1. VAT Compliance and Systems Integration:
   • Ensure VAT compliance across billing platforms, addressing complex indirect tax scenarios specific to energy and other sectors.
   • Support the integration of tax processes within operational systems, ensuring accurate VAT reporting and invoice processing.
   • Review and analyse VAT returns for accuracy, ensuring compliance with national and international tax regulations.
   • Investigate discrepancies in VAT data, resolve issues, and implement corrective actions.
   • Develop and maintain VAT policies and procedures for billing systems.
2. Tax Controversy Management:
   • Manage and resolve VAT-related Items Under Investigation (IUIs) with internal teams and external advisors.
   • Ensure correct VAT treatments, maintain detailed records of IUIs, and ensure prompt resolution.
   • Provide supporting documentation for tax audits or inquiries and collaborate with tax authorities as needed.
   • Assess potential risks related to VAT disputes and provide advice on mitigating exposure, ensuring that the company's position is defensible and that tax treatments are compliant.
   • Work closely with internal stakeholders, such as finance, legal, IT and operational teams, to gather relevant information and evidence required for tax audits or dispute resolutions.
3. Project Management:
   • Lead VAT compliance and data analytics projects, coordinating between IT, finance, and tax teams.
   • Define project scopes, manage timelines, and deliver tax-related system enhancements.
   • Act as a liaison across departments, resolving cross-functional challenges.
4. Data Analysis and Reporting:
   • Analyse large datasets, containing millions of line items, to identify trends, discrepancies, and opportunities for process improvement, VAT determinations, reconciliations, VAT accounting, Invoice complaint issues.
   • Review VAT determination and invoicing data to ensure the accuracy of VAT calculations.
   • Develop dashboards and reports to monitor VAT compliance, highlighting key metrics and risks.
   • Provide actionable insights through data-driven investigations.
5. Billing Systems Expertise:
   • Ensure accurate VAT reporting across billing systems that handle millions of line items, ensuring VAT determination and invoicing align with regulatory requirements.
   • Work with developers to validate tax calculations and make system adjustments to maintain compliance.
   • Monitor system performance to ensure data integrity and alignment with tax regulations.
6. Controls and Compliance:
   • Implement robust VAT controls, including exception reporting and validation checks.
   • Ensure systems and processes reflect regulatory updates and business requirements.
   • Maintain compliance frameworks and documentation for audits and reviews.
   • Monitor and support the operation teams to complete their controls and reviewed by the tax team to confirm if any exceptions or different types of transactions are causing issues.
7. Cross-Functional Collaboration:
   • Collaborate with finance, IT, and operational teams to address VAT challenges in billing and reporting.
   • Train internal teams on VAT compliance processes and system functionalities.
   • Support the Tax Evolution Manager in addressing complex compliance issues.

Key Skills and Attributes

1. Technical Knowledge:
   • Expertise in VAT compliance within complex billing systems handling large volumes of data sets.
   • Strong understanding of VAT regulations and their application in energy and other industries.
   • Proven project management skills, with experience delivering tax-related system enhancements.
2. Data Analytics:
   • Proficiency in analysing large datasets and identifying VAT-related issues and trends.
   • Strong attention to detail in VAT calculations, determination, and reporting.
3. Collaboration and Communication:
   • Ability to communicate complex tax requirements to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
   • Strong problem-solving and interpersonal skills for cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Taxation, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• Experience in VAT compliance, particularly in industries with complex billing systems.
• Strong technical skills in data analytics and systems integrations.
• Demonstrated experience in managing tax-related projects.

Why Join Us?

This role offers the opportunity to leverage VAT expertise within dynamic billing systems, ensuring compliance while driving system enhancements. You’ll play a critical role in managing complex data, determining VAT accuracy, and improving compliance processes across multiple sectors.

Why should you apply?
We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too.

If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.

Help us, help you. We would love for you to share any information about yourself throughout our recruitment process so that we can better understand you and help shape your journey.

We are Centrica

We’re powered by purpose

Through innovative green products, intelligent energy solutions and developing smarter ways to use and save energy, we’re not just part of the energy transition, we’re leading it. Our commitment goes beyond sustainability. Together we’re bringing our collective energies to create positive change in our local communities. If you immerse yourself in our fight to change tomorrow, you might just find your why.

We’re looking for people to add to our culture – not fit in with it. We're building a community where you can be unapologetically you, where differences are celebrated, and where everyone can belong. Real inclusivity also means supporting the different realities our people face. That’s why we have the UK’s best Carers Policy and are continually building our approach to flexibility and wellbeing. Of course, we love having fun too. We’re a people place after all.