Indirect Tax Manager

Moorepay Limited; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Indirect Tax Manager to oversee compliance and reporting in multiple jurisdictions. This pivotal role involves working closely with key stakeholders, including the Group CFO, while ensuring accurate indirect tax filings and providing expert advice on tax issues related to business expansion. The position offers a hybrid working model, requiring two days in the office each week, and presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to the company's growth and success. Join a progressive organization that values teamwork, continuous learning, and innovative thinking, while enjoying a comprehensive benefits package and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Life assurance 4x salary

Enhanced pension scheme

Flexible benefits across wellbeing and lifestyle

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in indirect taxes, preferably in-house.
• Ability to communicate complex tax topics to non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of indirect tax filing requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Acting as internal advisor for indirect tax issues associated with business growth.

Skills

Indirect Tax Reporting

VAT Compliance

USA Sales Tax

European VAT

NetSuite

Communication Skills

Project Management

Process Improvement

Education

ACA / CTA Qualified

ATT Qualified

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

About the role

As Indirect Tax Manager you'll have responsibility for ensuring accurate and timely indirect tax reporting in multiple jurisdictions. You'll have the opportunity to step into a key technical business advisor position as our businesses expand globally both organically and through M&A.

You'll have exposure to, and be expected to work closely with, key stakeholders within the business including the Group CFO and Business Finance Directors.

As a business we operate on a hybrid working model, where colleagues are required to be in the office two days a week. This role will be based from our Bristol office (Tuesday & Wednesday). As well as this, you may be required to travel to some of our other offices, including overseas offices where necessary.

In this role your key responsibilities will include:

General indirect tax compliance

1. Ownership of all indirect tax filing requirements including:

• Multiple UK VAT groups, including partial exemption calculations.
• Two Irish VAT groups.
• USA State Sales Tax returns and Nexus monitoring.
• Implementing and overseeing indirect taxes more globally as we expand (to include, but not limited to, Philippines, Swedish and German VAT returns).

Reviewing contracts, products and revenue streams to ensure correct tax treatment and preparing papers to document appropriateness.

Taking a lead role in any indirect tax audits / enquiries, including direct consultation with inspectors and advisors where required.

Performing VAT health checks to ensure compliance across all entities.

Business partnering

1. Building and maintaining direct relationships with key business contacts.
2. Acting as internal advisor to proactively assess indirect tax issues associated with new commercial business plans and geographical growth.
3. Providing indirect tax expertise to support M&A due diligence activity.
4. Supporting the businesses for all indirect tax issues associated with the integration of newly acquired businesses.

Tax risk management, governance and controls

1. Advising and supporting the Group Tax Manager to build an appropriate governance framework and reporting mechanism for Senior Accounting Officer (SAO), Business Risk Review (BRR), and Corporate Criminal Offence (CCO) regimes.
2. Critically reviewing VAT cash forecast prepared by our offshore service centre to ensure accuracy of assumptions and calculations.
3. Ownership and review of the indirect tax balance sheet accounts.
4. Monitoring and implementing any relevant changes in indirect tax legislation.

This role will benefit from the support of one colleague based in Kochi (India) and will also hold the associated responsibilities for direct line management of that colleague.

Skills & experience

• ACA / CTA qualified (or equivalent) with demonstrable experience in indirect taxes (in-house preferable), or ATT qualified with significant relevant experience.
• Experience with USA sales taxes and European VAT is highly desirable.
• Previous experience with NetSuite is also advantageous.
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics to key stakeholders including non-finance / tax people.
• Experience of working across multiple key projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work independently, identify key priorities, take ownership, and respond quickly to demands as they arise.
• A critical mindset and ability to recognise where efficiencies and process improvements can be made.
• Proven record of supervising colleagues.

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation.Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services.With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.