Indirect Tax Manager

Chubb External; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Chubb in Glasgow is seeking an Indirect Tax Manager to provide high-quality indirect tax advice across the business in EMEA. You will partner with senior stakeholders, finance teams and business leaders, shaping commercial decisions with practical tax insight.

The role involves reviewing transactions, identifying indirect tax issues early, ensuring IPT and parafiscal compliance, and supporting system changes.

Qualifications

• Strong VAT expertise with the ambition to broaden experience in an international environment.
• Experience providing indirect tax advisory services to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day indirect tax advice to business lines and finance colleagues.
• Review existing and planned transactions to identify indirect tax issues and provide commercially oriented guidance.
• Build strong internal and external relationships to support proactive tax guidance.
• Instruct and oversee external advisers where required.
• Support indirect tax compliance and return reviews.
• Contribute to indirect tax input on new systems and business change initiatives.
• Maintain knowledge of VAT, IPT and parafiscal taxes within the insurance sector.

Skills

VAT expertise

Advisory experience

Stakeholder management

Job description

Are you an experienced VAT or indirect tax professional looking for a role where you can make a real commercial impact? At Chubb, we are looking for an Indirect Tax Manager to join our Glasgow office and play a key role in providing high-quality indirect tax advice across our business.

This is an exciting opportunity for a confident tax specialist who enjoys advisory work and wants to partner closely with senior stakeholders, finance teams and business leaders across EMEA. The role is ideally suited to a manager-level candidate, or someone ready to step up into a senior manager position, with strong VAT expertise and the ambition to broaden their experience in a complex, international environment

About the role

You will provide comprehensive indirect tax advice to senior management, business teams, finance colleagues and the wider tax function across EMEA. Your work will focus on reviewing existing and planned business transactions across Chubb’s business lines, identifying indirect tax issues early, and delivering practical advice that helps mitigate VAT, Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) and parafiscal risk while supporting commercial decision-making

You will become closely integrated with the business, helping to assess indirect tax implications before products go live and supporting new systems and change initiatives where indirect tax input is required. The role also includes support for compliance services across Chubb and affiliated companies in EMEA and the wider region

Key responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day indirect tax advice and support to business lines, the tax team and finance colleagues
• Review existing and planned business transactions to identify indirect tax issues and provide robust, commercially focused advice
• Build strong internal and external relationships to support proactive, high-quality guidance
• Instruct and oversee external advisers where required
• Support indirect tax return reviews and compliance matters
• Contribute to indirect tax input on new systems and business change initiatives
• Develop and maintain strong knowledge of VAT, IPT and parafiscal taxes within the insurance sector