SAP Process & VAT Reporting Manager

To manage a group of Dyson’s size efficiently and effectively, you really need the attention to detail to investigate and understand what is happening on the ground – in a tax as complicated as VAT, when the temperature of a pasty changes the rate, it is the specifics that really matter. While predominantly responsible for preparing and meeting the European VAT compliance obligations of the group in EMEA, we in the VAT Team are privileged to see the actual day-to-day activities of the group in a way few other finance professionals do. We need to identify issues and affect change in other teams by supporting them to improve their controls and processes so we can correctly and accurately report to multiple governmental stakeholders.

About the role

VAT is one of the few financial specialisms that has immediate and practical real-world implications. This role in the Dyson VAT Team offers the opportunity to get to grips with a truly global supply chain, as well as insight into our many routes to market through which we get our consumer products into the hands of owners on a continental scale. Delivering all this requires us to comply with wide-ranging VAT and other reporting obligations across multiple countries, as governments increase the amount of information that businesses are required to provide to them. We must ensure that our systems are configured to provide the data we need in the format in which we need it, first time.

Your work can be broken down into the following main areas:

1. As a manager, you will join and support an established team that is already directly managing these obligations across the EMEA region.
2. Whilst you will also carry out some of the day-to-day VAT compliance to support the compliance team when necessary, your focus will be upon supporting delivery of correct SAP configuration for business-wide projects, leading all testing and sign off. Areas could include new products, new territories, or changes in the supply chain.
3. Outside wider project work driven by other business areas, you will also be expected to proactively seek out, diagnose and resolve issues to deliver efficiencies in existing VAT and Intrastat configurations.
4. You will also be expected to implement ERP system changes to meet new governmental and legal reporting obligations, often via third-party bolt-on software to SAP.
5. Key responsibilities will include analysing, understanding, and implementing solutions to enable us to meet new or expanded Real-Time Reporting, e-invoicing and SAF-T reporting requirements, which will evolve in our existing territories and into new jurisdictions as we continue to expand.
6. The Dyson VAT Team has a history of embracing new technologies, including the implementation of our VAT robot, and the role also offers a chance to work with our dedicated Tax Technologist to further embed these process innovations.

About you

1. Ideally a VAT specialist with deep SAP systems knowledge, including the operation of tax code determination.
2. A CTA qualification would be preferable.
3. Experience of Intrastat requirements and reporting.
4. Detailed understanding of different solutions available to meet Intrastat, SAF-T and other reporting requirements across Europe.
5. Experience interpreting technical governmental guidelines and schema for automated or SAF-T reporting, including analysing and mapping system data points to governmental requirements.
6. A track record of delivering elegant, automated reporting solutions to the challenges posed by fast-changing global compliance rules.
7. Proactive, a problem-solver, high levels of accuracy and attention to detail, analytical, inquisitive.
8. Excellent communication skills, and an ability to build, maintain and influence working relationships with key stakeholders and other areas of the business.

Performance related bonus
Discounts on Dyson machines
Purchase additional holidays

Lifestyle

Free bus travel to and from Malmesbury campus from Bristol, Chippenham and Swindon
On-site parking
Endless free coffee and tea, and a free lunch
Free on-site hair salon
Electric vehicle scheme

Health

Private Medical insurance for all employees
Employee Assistance Program for employee and dependents
Digital GP and prescription service
Fertility treatment support
On-site gym and sports centre

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