VAT Manager

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job description

JOB TITLE: VAT Manager
SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Group Tax is a key function within the Finance community of LBG, having responsibility for managing the Group's tax affairs. The Group has a wide range of tax payments, deductions, and reporting obligations both for its own account but also for its colleagues and customers. Group Tax manages these obligations on behalf of the Group, ensuring the tax consequences of all transactions are understood and that the Group is in full compliance with its statutory obligations.

What you'll be doing

• Provide informative, high quality sophisticated indirect tax advice to all business areas taking mentorship from their senior tax peer group.
• Build relationships with important internal stakeholders and act as their business partner to understand new product offerings and transactions.
• Helping to ensure the VAT compliance of the VAT group is correct by preparing and reviewing returns, liaising with the business and working with senior managers to provide dashboarding to senior stakeholders.
• Management of and assistance with indirect tax audits and enquiries where applicable.
• Identify areas to improve the effectiveness of our VAT activities and initiates efforts to streamline and improve processes using the group's tax technology resources.
• Working with the business and Senior Managers to document processes and controls and monitoring implementation of those procedures within the organisation.
• Delivers own small-scale or medium-scale projects by working within an established programme management plan.
• Develops and designs content for training courses in specific functional areas to fill gaps in established programs; runs sophisticated and/or customised training courses to improve employee performance within specific functional area.

What you'll need

• ACCA/ACA and/or CTA qualified.
• Strong VAT / Indirect Tax Advisory experience preferably in financial services.
• Good understanding of Tax Technology and data management.
• Experience working in either Big 4, Top Tier Accountancy or Financial Institutions organisations.
• Accuracy, time management and ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Initiative and good people skills with ability to form effective working relationships with colleagues in all parts of the Group and with HM Revenue and Customs.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.