Integrated Supply Indirect Tax Manager

RS Group; Warrington; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

RS Integrated Supply is seeking an Indirect Tax Compliance Analyst in the UK to manage VAT returns, reconciliations, and legislation monitoring across UK and EMEA. You will liaise with RSIS finance, outsourcing providers and centre of excellence teams to ensure accurate filings.

The role requires strong analytical ability, excellent Excel skills, and proven experience in indirect tax. Ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in indirect tax compliance, including preparation and submission of VAT returns.
• Strong understanding of UK and EMEA indirect tax regulations.
• Excellent analytical skills with experience reconciling tax accounts.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across multiple levels.
• Ability to manage tight deadlines and multiple stakeholders.
• Proficiency with JD Edwards and MS Office tools.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review VAT and other indirect tax returns across UK and EMEA, ensuring timely filings.
• Reconcile indirect tax accounts with financial statements and manage VAT registrations.
• Monitor changes in indirect tax legislation and advise on business impact.
• Liaise with outsourced providers, RSIS finance, and Centre of Excellence teams to resolve queries.
• Support process improvements and adherence to tax controls.
• Assist with VAT GL reconciliations and resolve discrepancies.
• Oversee indirect tax testing for JD Edwards configuration changes.
• Support tax function and business in queries from authorities and local finance.

Skills

VAT compliance

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Advanced Excel

UK Indirect Tax

Tools

JD Edwards

MS Office

Job description

As the Indirect Tax Compliance Analyst, you will provide the complete, accurate and timely processing of the Indirect Tax process, ensuring compliance with internal guidelines and procedures as well as external requirements. Reporting directly to the EMEA Indirect Tax Manager of our parent company, RS Group plc and you will report indirectly to the RSIS UK/EMEA Finance Manager. What you will be doing:

• Prepare and review VAT and other indirect tax returns across UK and EMEA (e.g. ECSL, ESPL or Intrastat returns, and Annual Client Sales Listing reports or Annual VAT returns), ensuring timely and accurate filings.
• Reconcile indirect tax accounts with financial statements and manage VAT registrations.
• Monitor and implement changes in indirect tax legislation, advising on business impacts.
• Act as liaison between outsourced providers, the local RSIS finance team, Group Indirect Tax team and Centre of Excellence teams, ensuring that issues and questions are properly resolved by the appropriate parties.
• Support process improvements, and adherence to internal tax controls.
• Support with VAT General Ledger reconciliations and resolve reconciling differences.
• Oversee Indirect Tax testing for changes to the configuration of JD Edwards and their implications for Indirect tax compliance and reporting.
• Support Tax function and business in analysis to resolve any queries from Authorities or local Finance.
• Preparation and delivery of VAT trainings to the closest RSIS stakeholders.
• Support the EMEA Indirect Tax Manager in the day-to-day management of Indirect tax returns as well as on ad-hoc projects.
  Experience in indirect tax compliance, including preparation and submission of VAT returns.
• Strong understanding of UK and EMEA indirect tax regulations and ability to interpret legislative changes.
• Excellent analytical skills with experience reconciling tax accounts and identifying discrepancies. Good attention to details.
• Strong Communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work across all levels of organisations as well as different functions.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines, managing multiple stakeholders (both internal and external).
• Advanced Excel, MS Office.
  Across the industrial design, manufacturing and maintenance worlds, we're the digital destination for product and service solutions to help our customers with the maintenance, repair and operation of their businesses.
RS Integrated Supply is one of the world's leading providers of Integrated Supply Solutions to manufacturing industries for the provision of MRO (indirect) products. Our portfolio consists of Procurement Services, Transactional Processing, Stores Management and Inventory Optimisation enabled by industry leading digital platforms. We deliver world class results to world class companies in industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Foods, Beverage, Automotive and Aerospace. We are one team. We deliver brilliantly. We do the right thing. We make every day better. These are our values. They unite our c.9,000 global colleagues and differentiate us from our competition. They are a mix of how we work today and how we must step up for the future. Most importantly, it is one set of values shaped by our people, for our people. Together, we can make great things happen. Aim for amazing and beyond.