Transformation Manager – Indirect Tax Compliance (12-month FTC)

Centrica; Reading; Sur place; GBP 65 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Centrica plc in Reading is driving a 12-month transformation to redesign and standardise indirect tax compliance, leveraging automation and data when possible. The role spans defining the future-state model and delivering adoption across Finance, Transformation and offshore teams.

The candidate will lead end-to-end implementation, strengthen controls and ensure accurate VAT and related taxes, with flexible working and weekly office visits to Reading.

Qualifications

• End-to-end finance or tax transformation delivery experience.
• Ability to translate vision into practical change using technology, automation and data.
• Knowledge of UK VAT returns, reconciliations and annual adjustments.

Responsabilités

• Set the transformation roadmap and define the future-state indirect tax compliance model.
• Redesign processes before automation to simplify end-to-end compliance.
• Connect data and technology with Finance and Transformation teams to reduce manual intervention.
• Redesign partial exemption processes with advisers and stakeholders.
• Establish clear ownership and effective controls across teams.
• Lead change and delivery with cross-functional coordination and training.
• Track benefits and ensure VAT, Climate Change Levy and Insurance Premium Tax obligations are met.

Connaissances

Transformation leadership

Indirect tax experience

UK VAT

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Formation

ACA/ACCA/CTA or equivalent

Outils

SAP S/4HANA

ONESOURCE

Power BI

Excel

ERP systems

Description du poste

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We're so much more than an energy company. We're a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn't rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That's why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

About your role:

This is an exciting 12-month transformation opportunity with a clear ambition: to redesign and transform indirect tax compliance around simpler processes, standardised data and greater automation.

You’ll lead the move towards "one-button compliance", replacing manual activity and workarounds with connected, exception-led processes. Working across Indirect Tax, Transformation, Finance, Finance Systems, offshore teams and external advisers, you'll take the transformation from future-state design through to implementation and adoption.

Success will mean implementation of the transformed operating model alongside stronger controls, better-quality data and faster processes that the team can continue to develop after the transformation is complete.

Location:

UK - Reading/Flexible

With our Flexible First working arrangements, we empower our colleagues to work in a way that best suits them. The successful candidate will, however, need to be comfortable commuting to our Reading office on a weekly basis and for team days.

What you’ll be doing:

• Set the transformation roadmap: Help define the future-state indirect tax compliance model and translate the ambition for one-button compliance into clear priorities, milestones and ownership.
• Redesign before automating: Challenge legacy processes, simplify compliance end to end and remove unnecessary activity before introducing automation.
• Connect data and technology: Partner with Transformation, Finance and Finance Systems teams to improve how source data, reconciliations and return preparation work together, reducing manual intervention.
• Transform our partial exemption processes: Work with external advisers, Head of Indirect Tax and internal finance stakeholders to redesign the process and annual adjustment, simplify and optimise VAT recovery, strengthen controls, reduce manual effort and help to build a forecasting model so the impact of spend is understood.
• Transform the operating model: Establish clear ownership across Indirect Tax, Finance and offshore teams, supported by effective controls and handovers.
• Lead change and delivery: Coordinate internal teams and external advisers, manage cross-functional dependencies and embed new ways of working through training and knowledge transfer.
• Deliver lasting value: Track benefits including reduced manual effort, faster cycle times, improved data quality and stronger controls, while delivering VAT, Climate Change Levy and Insurance Premium Tax obligations accurately and on time.

What we’re looking for:

We're looking for someone who combines transformation leadership with a strong understanding of indirect tax compliance and can turn an ambitious vision into practical, sustainable change.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Proven experience delivering end-to-end finance or tax transformation, from design and process improvement through to implementation, adoption and measurable benefits.
• A transformation-first mindset, with experience challenging established processes and using technology, automation and data to create simpler ways of working.
• Strong knowledge of UK VAT compliance and tax accounting, including returns, reconciliations and annual adjustments.
• Hands-on experience of partial exemption ideally with experience of improving or automating these processes.
• The ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead change across multiple teams without relying on direct line authority.
• Strong analytical, process-mapping and controls capability, alongside confidence working with Excel and ERP, finance or tax systems.
• Experience working with external advisers, project teams and/or offshore delivery models.A relevant accounting or tax qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CTA, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience with SAP S/4HANA, ONESOURCE, Power BI or automation technologies would be advantageous, as would knowledge of Climate Change Levy, Insurance Premium Tax or the energy sector.

Why should you apply?

We're not a perfect place - but we're a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That's why we've designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too. Visit the link below to discover why we're a great place to work and what being part of more means for you. https://www.morethanacareer.energy/centrica