Tax Accountant

HeliosX; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity allocations

25 days holiday

Private health insurance

Pension with Smart Pension

Enhanced parental leave

Cycle-to-work

Electric Car Scheme

Home office allowance

Headspace subscription

Learning and development budget

Job summary

HeliosX is seeking a Tax Accountant to anchor global tax compliance within our Group Finance function. You will own day-to-day duties across UK VAT, international direct tax, and R&D credits, collaborating with external advisers and the Group Tax Manager to enable growth in new markets.

The role is hands-on with breadth, combining technical tax work with finance collaboration to ensure accurate reporting and timely filings.

Qualifications

• Has worked within corporate tax environment or tax practice at public accounting firm.
• Experience with both corporation tax and indirect taxes desirable.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Competent with complex data and proficient in Excel/Google Sheets.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the global tax compliance calendar, tracking submissions across all jurisdictions and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.
• Act as the primary liaison with external tax advisors—managing relationships, delivering on schedule, and ensuring work is review-ready for the Group Tax Manager.
• Prepare and review direct and indirect tax submissions for the UK and internationally, with high accuracy.
• Collaborate on statutory corporation tax provisions and returns within the annual accounts and audit cycle.
• Prepare monthly tax accounting entries and ensure timely posting into the Group's financial records.
• Review intercompany recharges to align with the transfer pricing methodology.
• Support tax workstreams for international expansion projects, including registrations and local compliance.
• Assist with R&D tax credit applications across relevant jurisdictions with technical teams.
• Contribute to broader tax projects including corporate structure optimization, transfer pricing reviews, tax losses utilisation, M&A activity, and intercompany debt financing.

Job description

About the role

As we scale rapidly across new geographies and business lines, tax has never been more important to how we operate. We're looking for a Tax Accountant to sit at the heart of our Group Finance function — owning day-to-day global tax compliance, supporting our Group Tax Manager, and ensuring we're set up for growth wherever in the world we go next. This is a hands‑on role with genuine breadth: from UK VAT to international direct tax, transfer pricing to R&D credits, you'll touch it all.

What you'll be doing

• Own and maintain the global tax compliance calendar, tracking submissions across all jurisdictions and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.
• Act as the primary liaison with our external tax advisors — managing relationships, keeping deliverables on schedule, and ensuring all workproduct arrives in a review-ready state for the Group Tax Manager.
• Prepare and perform first reviews of direct and indirect tax submissions for the UK and internationally, maintaining a high standard of accuracy and rigour.
• Work closely with advisors and the broader Finance team on statutory corporation tax provisions and returns, coordinating with the annual accounts and audit cycle.
• Prepare monthly tax accounting entries and ensure timely, accurate posting into the Group's financial records.
• Review intercompany recharges to ensure ongoing compliance with the Group's transfer pricing methodology
• Support the tax workstream of international expansion projects — including registrations, filings, and local compliance requirements as we enter new markets.
• Assist with R&D tax credit applications across relevant jurisdictions, working with technical teams to identify and document qualifying activities.
• Contribute to broader tax projects including corporate structure optimisation, transfer pricing methodology reviews, utilisation of tax losses, M&A activity, and intercompany debt financing.

Who you are:

• Has worked within corporate tax environment or tax practice at public accounting firm.
• Prior experience of both corporation tax and indirect taxes is desirable.
• Highly organised, and has managed either internal teams or external advisors to achieve compliance objectives.
• Open to both fully or part qualified accountant or tax professional with experience within a role
• Competent working with complex data and proficient in Excel / Google Sheets.
• Experience with SageX3 is desirable but not mandatory.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to balance and prioritise multiple deliverables at one time, utilising available resources pragmatically to achieve desired goals.

Why work with us?

At HeliosX, we want to improve healthcare for everyone, and to do this we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition. Aside from working with our all-star team, here are the other benefits of coming on board:

• Generous equity allocations with significant upside potential
• 25 Days Holiday (+ all the usual Bank Holidays)
• Private health insurance, along with extra dental and eye care cover
• Employee Pension with Smart Pension
• Enhanced parental leave
• Cycle-to-work Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Free Dermatica and MedExpress products every month, as well as family discounts
• Home office allowance
• Access to a Headspace subscription, discounted gym memberships, and a learning and development budget

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