Indirect Tax Manager

Oxford University Press; Oxford; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension contributions up to 12%

Discretionary annual bonus

Job summary

Oxford University Press seeks an experienced Indirect Tax Manager to oversee VAT compliance and provide limited technical guidance to internal stakeholders. The role focuses on compliance, advisory work, and partnering with business units across a global footprint.

The successful candidate will review 40+ VAT returns, manage balance sheet VAT risks, and drive process improvements. A hybrid work model with core presence in Oxford is offered, along with competitive benefits and a discretionary

Qualifications

• Experience in indirect tax compliance for global business.
• Ability to provide VAT guidance to internal stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of VAT legislation.

Responsibilities

• Review UK and global VAT returns and sign off with Senior Group VAT Manager.
• Manage VAT/indirect tax risks and respond to tax authority queries.
• Ensure ERP VAT reporting accuracy and alignment with tax changes.
• Collaborate with finance teams and business units on tax matters.

Skills

Indirect tax

VAT compliance

Tax advisory

Education

CTA

ACCA

ACA

Tools

OneSource

Job description

We are seeking an experienced tax and VAT professional to join our Group Finance Function as the Indirect Tax Manager. The main responsibility of the role is to oversee OUP VAT compliance and regulatory obligations, as well as providing limited technical VAT guidance to internal stakeholders.

OUP sells to customers in more than 170 countries and is registered for VAT/GST in more than 40 countries. The role covers 3 key areas – Compliance, Advisory and Business Partnering, as well as some ad-hoc Projects.

Key responsibilities in this role will include:

• Reviewing OUP UK’s 40+ global VAT returns and signing off in conjunction with the Senior Group VAT Manager.
• Ensure balance sheet management of indirect taxes in conjunction with finance teams.
• Approving Intrastat and ECSLs where applicable.
• Partnering with finance functions to ensure payments of returns are made in a timely manor.
• Overview and sign off OUP Global office VAT returns where local finance staff are not in place to do so.
• Manage VAT/indirect tax risks for OUP’s global business.
• Manage responses to global tax authority queries and audits.
• Identifying issues and opportunities to continuously improve data and the VAT
• compliance processes
• Provide clear, accurate and timely advice regarding internal VAT queries.
• Advise the Senior Group VAT Manager on VAT due diligence and the integration of any acquired businesses to reduce risk.
• Monitor and understand the impact of external legislative changes, engaging advisors were necessary.
• Engaging with OUP divisions to understand future requirements of the business.
• Aligning with the University tax team on any legislative changes.
• Working with tax technical team on country specific requirements and global projects (e.g. e-invoicing)
• Working with tax technical team to ensure that ERP systems and VAT/GST reporting is accurate.
• Working with tax technical team to ensure that global tax engine - OneSource – is up to date and updated for any legislative or rate-changes.
• The tax team are no longer "back-office," but actively influence strategic decisions.
• Monitor and understand the impact of business changes, new products/services, and routes to market by engaging with senior business leaders and stakeholders.
• Become an active participant in tax and finance projects (e.g. print-on-demand, geo-blocking)

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have/be:

• Relevant experience in indirect tax compliance in a complex, global business, either in industry or practice
• Relevant qualifications, such as CTA, ACCA or ACA
• An understanding of VAT legislation

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

In the region of £70,000 dependent on skills and experience