Tax Transformation Senior Analyst

ASOS.com Ltd; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online fashion retailer is seeking a Tax Transformation professional to drive continuous process improvements, manage country reporting, and support compliance initiatives. Applicants should have a tax accounting qualification and experience in tax transformation processes, as well as strong communication and problem-solving skills. This role requires a proactive individual eager to make an impact within the tax team.

Benefits

Employee discount

Personal development opportunities

Employee sample sales

Access to LinkedIn learning materials

25 days paid annual leave

Discretionary bonus scheme

Private medical care

Flexible benefits allowance

Qualifications

• Preferably a tax accounting qualification (ATT, ACCA or ACA).
• Experience delivering on tax transformation.
• Ability to prioritize workload to meet deadlines.
• Good communication and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous process and control improvements.
• Support business initiatives for compliance.
• Manage the process for country by country reporting.
• Champion Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.

Skills

Tax accounting qualification

Experience in tax transformation

Experience with technology teams

Familiarity with direct and indirect taxes

Financial process understanding

Ability to meet deadlines

High accuracy with data

Problem-solving skills

Commercial awareness

Strong communication skills

Education

Tax accounting qualification (ATT, ACCA or ACA)

Tools

Alteryx

SQL

Power Platform Tools

Job description

Overview

ASOS is the online retailer for fashion lovers worldwide. The Tax team focuses on the tax transformation agenda including process improvement and automation across Direct tax, Indirect tax, Customs and Employment taxes. The role covers the design and improvement of tax processes and the tax control framework, including automation strategies to ensure compliance and minimise time spent on manual processes. It reports to the Head of Tax Transformation and supports business growth initiatives and data requirements for tax audits. The Tax Transformation team works closely with Finance, Technology and Governance teams as well as outside advisors to ensure appropriate management and controls.

Responsibilities

• Work with Head of Tax Transformation to drive continuous process and control improvements. Deliver effective and efficient solutions. Design effective controls. Standardise and document processes.
• Work with the business to understand and support business initiatives and associated change impacts, from requirements through to successful implementation to ensure compliance and appropriate tax data delivery.
• Support in delivery of solutions to meet reporting obligations and empower staff to make better business decisions. Ensure disciplined approach to change management, with regular communication to key stakeholders and knowledge transfer.
• Support tax audit data requests.
• Drive engagement and development across the tax function of how to enact process, data, system and people change to improve tax processes.
• Manage process for country by country reporting (CBCR).
• Stay closely linked to external best practice in areas such as automation and data solutions.
• Prepare tax control framework documentation, ensuring ongoing and effective controls design and testing.
• Support our culture by championing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.

Qualifications

• A tax accounting qualification (preferably ATT, ACCA or ACA).
• Experience delivering on tax transformation and process improvement initiatives.
• Experience of working closely with Tech delivery teams as well as Tax / Finance / relevant business stakeholders.
• Functional knowledge and experience across both direct and indirect taxes, particularly in compliance.
• Financial process understanding and experience at an operational level in tax department.
• A proven ability to plan and prioritise workload to meet tight deadlines.
• A high standard of accuracy with financial data.
• Ability to find solutions and take initiative.
• Commercial awareness.
• Self-motivated, proactive, enthusiastic and results-focused.
• Experience of Alteryx, SQL and Power Platform Tools would be an advantage.
• Good communication/interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Flexible, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity with a can-do attitude.

Benefits

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!).
• ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business).
• Employee sample sales.
• Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials.
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment.
• Discretionary bonus scheme.
• Private medical care scheme.
• Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits.

We believe being together in person helps us move faster, connect more deeply, and achieve more as a team. Our approach to working includes spending at least 3 days a week in the office.