Tax Manager

Tesco Insurance & Money Services; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services seeks a Tax Reporting Manager for their Edinburgh team. In this hybrid role, you'll ensure accurate tax accounting and reporting to meet HMRC legislation while collaborating with key stakeholders. Join us to grow your career in a supportive and inclusive environment with excellent benefits including a generous holiday allowance and performance-related bonuses.

Benefits

Colleague pension scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Performance related annual bonus

Generous holiday allowance

Colleague Clubcard discounts

Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn schemes

Qualifications

• Track record of taking ownership for key reporting outputs.
• Experience in tax reporting, understanding of HMRC regulations preferred.

Responsibilities

• Preparing monthly corporation tax and VAT journals.
• Supporting the FC Reporting team in group and regulatory reporting.

Skills

Pro-active attitude

Ability to build relationships

Education

Professional accountancy or tax qualification

Audit Experience

Job description

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary - Salary is £50k+ (dependent on experience) + annual bonus & benefits
Work Level - 2
Location - Edinburgh, Permanent
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh office, 2 days per week for this position.
Closing Date - Applications close 20/06/2025

We deal in the personal - from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you've worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we're helping our customers or looking after our people, you'll find there's a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

We're looking for a Tax Reporting Manager to join our Insurance and Money Services team.

You'll have exposure across the Finance function in this role, providing confidence in the integrity of all tax reporting outputs. You will be responsible for delivering accurate tax accounting and reporting in accordance with HMRC guidance and legislation, within an appropriately controlled reporting environment.

This role will best suit someone who can demonstrate a track record of taking ownership for key reporting outputs, an ability to interpret complex requirements, and has a real desire to learn and become a go to person within the business.

Key stakeholders will include the Senior Technical Reporting Manager, Head of Financial Control, Product and Cost Finance teams, Tesco Group and external auditors.

What you'll be doing

• Preparing monthly corporation tax and VAT journals
• Assisting with the completion of year end corporation tax returns
• Helping to prepare year-end tax reporting for the IMS business, working alongside the Group Tax team
• Support with the preparation and submission of quarterly VAT returns
• Supporting all areas of Finance in appropriate tax accounting for and areas of change undertaken by the IMS business
• Supporting the FC Reporting team across other areas of statutory, group and regulatory reporting as required
• Building strong relationships with key stakeholders, primarily other FC teams, Risk, Commercial Finance, Group Tax, Legal
• Proactively identifying and managing the risks within tax reporting, ensuring they are within the IMS business risk appetite tolerance and policies are complied with

We need you to have

• Professional accountancy or tax qualification
• Audit Experience an advantage
• Pro-active attitude and a desire to learn
• Ability to build relationships across a Finance function
• And if you have any of these, even better
• Experience in tax reporting
• Understanding of relevant HMRC regulation
• Experience in Insurance or Financial Services.
• Demonstrable experience of being able to quickly hit the ground running

We don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What's in it for you

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we'll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn share schemes.

Everyone's welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We're committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.