Senior Tax Manager

UNAVAILABLE; Trowbridge; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life assurance

Healthcare

Private medical insurance

Gym membership

Cycle to work

Holiday trading

Employee discounts

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Danone is seeking a Senior Tax Manager for the UK & Ireland to lead the corporate tax and VAT agenda, ensuring robust governance and compliance. The role involves advising senior stakeholders, driving tax process improvements, and supporting strategic initiatives with strong cross-functional collaboration across Finance, Legal and Commercial teams.

You will build relationships, manage tax risk, and ensure tax considerations are embedded in business transformations and day-to-day operations.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of UK corporate tax and VAT with pragmatic application in a commercial setting.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders with clear, practical advice.
• Experience identifying, assessing and managing tax risks with strong controls and governance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; translate complex tax matters for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Professionally qualified tax adviser and/or accountant (ACA, ACCA, CTA or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Lead the corporate tax and VAT agenda across the UK and Ireland.
• Ensure timely, accurate tax compliance with internal teams and external advisors.
• Support statutory reporting, tax provisioning and forecasting.
• Provide transfer pricing support in collaboration with Group Tax and external advisers.
• Monitor regulatory developments and assess business impact.
• Offer tax advice on commercial, operational and strategic projects.
• Support tax audits and HMRC/Irish Revenue interactions.
• Maintain governance framework for tax across the region.
• Act as SME for UK/Irish VAT matters, including cross-border transactions.
• Drive tax process simplification and tax tech usage (e.g., SAP).
• Partner with regional and global tax teams for alignment with Danone policies.
• Support restructurings, change projects and M&A activity as needed.

Skills

Technical Tax Expertise

Business Partnering

Risk Management

Communication

Professional Tax Qualification

Tools

SAP

Job description

Short Intro and About the Job

Danoners are steering us to a more sustainable future, helping to make the world healthier. As a certified B-Corp, we have our Danone Impact Journey to 2025. This will only be possible with each and every one of our leaders.

Role Purpose:

The Senior Tax Manager - UK & Ireland provides strategic and commercial tax support while ensuring a robust governance and compliance framework.

Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, the role provides commercial and pragmatic tax leadership with particular focus on corporate tax and VAT, whilst also supporting the business with plastic packaging tax, sugar tax, customs and employment tax matters where needed.

Success in this role means delivering a robust control environment, managing tax risk effectively, driving continuous improvement and digitalisation of tax processes, and translating tax requirements into practical business solutions. The role is expected to build strong relationships across Finance, Supply Chain, Legal and Commercial teams, proactively identify risks and opportunities, influence key business decisions, and ensure tax considerations are embedded in strategic initiatives, business transformation projects and day-to-day operations across the UK and Ireland.

Key Activities:

• Lead the corporate tax and VAT agenda across the UK and Ireland.
• Ensure timely and accurate completion of tax compliance obligations, working with both internal teams and external advisors where appropriate.
• Support statutory reporting, tax provisioning and forecasting processes.
• Provide transfer pricing support across the UK and Ireland, partnering with Group Tax and external advisers to ensure compliance with transfer pricing policies, documentation requirements and intercompany transaction governance.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory developments and assess business impacts.
• Provide tax advice on commercial, operational and strategic projects.
• Support tax audits, enquiries and interactions with HMRC and Irish Revenue.
• Maintain an effective tax governance and control framework.
• Act as subject matter expert for UK and Irish VAT matters, including supply chain, commercial and cross-border transactions.
• Provide support on other taxes including plastic packaging tax, customs, sugar tax and employment taxes.
• Driving tax process simplification, digitalisation and the effective use of SAP and tax technology tools to improve compliance, reporting and risk management.
• Partner with regional and global tax teams to ensure alignment with Danone tax policies and objectives.
• Support business restructurings, organisational change projects and M&A activity where required.

About You

We would like you to demonstrate your following key skills:

• Technical Tax Expertise: Strong knowledge of UK corporate tax and VAT, with the ability to apply technical principles pragmatically within a commercial business environment.
• Business Partnering & Influencing: Able to build credibility with senior stakeholders and influence decision-making through clear, practical and solution-focused advice.
• Risk Management & Governance: Experience of identifying, assessing and managing tax risks whilst maintaining robust controls, processes and governance frameworks.
• Communication & Collaboration: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of translating complex tax matters into clear messages for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Professionally qualified tax adviser and/or accountant (ACA, ACCA, CTA or equivalent).

Salary Bracket: £70-75,000.

About Us, We offer and What's next

At Danone, we are committed to delivering better health through better nutrition for millions of consumers and patients in our communities.

Our market-leading products reach millions of consumers and patients every day. Our iconic brands span across the dairy, plant-based and water industries, including Actimel, Alpro and evian.

We're also a leading provider of specialised early-life nutrition through our Aptamil and Cow & Gate brands and medical nutrition products and services through our Nutricia brand.

Depending on the needs of your role, you'll spend an average of 2 to 3 days per week in the office hub, enhancing community, problem solving, and innovation.

We offer a flexible benefits package that you can tailor to your needs. This includes core benefits like pension, life assurance, and healthcare, plus options such as private medical insurance, gym memberships, cycle to work and holiday trading.

You’ll also have access to employee discounts and wellbeing support, helping you look after your health, finances and lifestyle in a way that works for you. Discover More: https://careers.danone.com/uki/en/our-learning-and-rewards.html

Inclusion and Diversity (I&D) is deeply embedded in Danone's DNA, representing our core values and beliefs. We embrace diversity as a driving force for positive change, nurturing an inclusive workplace where every individual is valued.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 15th September, you will therefore hear about your application after this date.

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