Job Description

Tax Manager

We are working with an award winning Insurance firm who are growing their Tax team and, as such, are looking for an experienced Tax Manager to join. You'll provide tax guidance for complex tax affairs within an established organisation that offer huge career and growth opportunities.

Salary: Up to £90k + 25% annual bonus + PMI + Benefits Package

Location: Tiddington, Stratford-Upon-Avon, 1 day a week in office (hybrid working).

About the role

This a great opportunity for an experienced Tax Manager to join our leading Insurance client, where you'll be responsible for Tax Risk and Exposure Management across the Group, which includes UK-wide sales distribution, international investment and properties activities.

As Tax Manager, you'll provide overall assessment of corporate tax provisions and tax payments that reflect the activities across the Group, including Insurance, Financial Services and Investment Management businesses. You'll also ensure compliance across all Taxation Regulatory and Reporting requirements.

Although your immediate team is small, you'll have great exposure to senior managers and tax-related professionals across various areas of the business. As well as managing external stakeholders, including HMRC and Tax Advisors, you'll also work closely with specialist legal firms for tax advice.

About you

• Solid Tax experience of dealing with complex tax affairs, ideally within the Insurance or Finance sector or be able to demonstrate extensive technical corporate tax knowledge.
• You'll have the capability to understand complex tax with the ability to translate this.
• You'll thrive on the complex tax affairs with confidence.
• You'll be a multi-disciplined tax professional with the ability to take the lead in the tax affairs.
• You'll also be able to demonstrate the breadth of understanding of not being purely specialised in one area of tax.
• Enjoy working as part of a small team but are readily able to influence and work very closely with both internal and external stakeholders such as HMRC, Auditors and Advisors.
• Have excellent verbal, communication skills with great leadership skills and will confidently embrace line management responsibilities.
• Be a confident and competent manager, or wanting to take the step into leadership as this role will bring two direct reports.

To join the team, you must also have:

• A professional or technical qualification, such as Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) or Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), including Professional Tax qualifications.
• Experience of working in the Financial Services Sector, with a specific knowledge of life insurance taxation.
• Experience of working with and having specific knowledge of direct and indirect taxes.
• Ability to effectively communicate and explain complex technical issues to financial and non-financial stakeholders.
• Experience of managing HMRC relationships for various corporate taxes, for example, corporation tax or VAT.