Job Description

The position presents the opportunity and challenge of working in both a dynamic and exciting environment within the UK’s largest dedicated online grocery retailer.

The candidate would be required to have experience in a number of tax areas, ranging from Corporation Tax, Employment taxes, international tax structures and indirect taxes (VAT/Customs/Excise). You would be required to lead preparation of the Group’s corporation tax computations for all UK companies and annual report tax disclosures.

Roles & Responsibilities

Core Role

• Assisting in the formulation of tax policies for the Group
• SAO Compliance (Monitoring and reviewing the risk registers and presenting to senior management)
• Reviewing latest changes and writing technical notes on the impacts from a Group perspective
• Assisting in setting up new processes and controls (e.g. CIS registration & controls/checks)
• Responsibility for timely and accurate filing of the tax returns for all UK companies in close co-operation with the Group’s tax advisors (5-7 entities).
• Ownership and responsible for pulling together the tax provision notes for the year end audited group accounts
• Lead and manage the contact with and providing assistance to the Group’s auditors
• Liaising with HMRC on outstanding queries such as agreeing composite rates to changing prior year CT returns for ECA claims
• Writing internal training courses for AP/AR on how to read invoices and code them correctly into the systems
• Reviewing and updating the transfer pricing documentation in line with BEPS and rewriting/updating

Supporting the commercial departments around the Group:

• Lead & own the tax team’s relationship with other finance teams (e.g. Carrier bag treatment, new commercial product launches, quarterly RDEC reporting, transfer pricing)
• Supporting the business in tax matters in commercial contracts (e.g. New warehouses, relocating of business activities)
• Assist on tax matters concerning the overseas R&D centres in Poland, Spain and Bulgaria (e.g. employment tax queries to withholding tax queries)

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Qualified ACA and /or CTA with 1+ years PQE
• Strong academics; minimum 2,1 at degree level; High grades at A level
• Good technical knowledge of UK tax legislation
• Experience of preparing UK tax computations in Alphatax
• Keen interest in developments in UK tax legislation and OECD’s BEPS initiative
• Excellent written communication skills and experience corresponding/liaising with tax authorities.

Desirable

• Proficient Alphatax skills
• Proficient Microsoft Excel skills
• Competent Microsoft Word user

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities