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Our finance team is renowned for their attention to detail. You’ll enable us to navigate the financial landscape with precision, contributing to the strategic decisions that support our growth. Surround yourself with experts, and bring your scientific mind to shape the future of our organisation.
Job DescriptionWhat You’ll Do
Primark is seeking a strategic and commercially aware tax professional to lead indirect tax and fiscal compliance across our global operations, with a key focus on the rollout of our new POS system (GPOS). This role blends technical tax expertise, regulatory insight, and project leadership to ensure our systems and processes meet evolving VAT, sales tax, and fiscal requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
You’ll work cross-functionally to design technology solutions, enhance the indirect tax data environment, mitigate compliance risks, and ensure fiscal and indirect tax requirements are seamlessly embedded into business processes and systems across all markets
We want you to feel challenged and inspired. Here, you’ll develop your skills across a range of responsibilities:
- Lead the indirect tax workstream for the Global POS (GPOS) programme, ensuring compliance requirements are embedded within solution design and deployment.
- Partner with Technology, Finance, Legal and external vendors to establish a robust global fiscal compliance framework across multiple jurisdictions.
- Drive requirements gathering, risk assessment and governance activities to support successful programme delivery and long-term compliance.
- Ensure systems, processes and data support accurate indirect tax reporting, filings, payments and audit readiness.
- Lead the transformation of indirect tax data and reporting capabilities, improving data quality, reconciliation processes and reporting accuracy.
- Identify and implement opportunities to standardise, automate and enhance indirect tax reporting processes and controls across the business.
- Oversee indirect tax governance, fiscal controls and vendor management, ensuring effective monitoring and risk mitigation.
- Promote continuous improvement by leveraging technology, automation and data analytics to strengthen tax compliance, controls and operational efficiency.
What You’ll Bring
We want every person in our organisation to feel like they’re making a key contribution. Here are some of the experiences and skills you’ll need for the role:
- Qualified tax professional with 6+ years' post-qualification experience.
- Strong organisational of EU VAT principles and how they apply to transactional data and controls.
- Experience in data quality and governance, finance systems or indirect tax operations.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex tax issues.
- Proficient in Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, or comparable data analysis tools.
- Commercially aware, detail-orientated and highly organised.
What You’ll Get
People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best. Let’s talk lifestyle:
Let’s talk lifestyle: Healthcare, pension, potential bonus, 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.
Does this sound like you? Great, because we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring. You’ll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we’re excited about our future - and we’re excited to develop yours.
Additional InformationAbout Primark
Primark was founded on a mission that everyone deserves to look and feel good – without paying more. We stand for great value without compromise, offering affordable fashion and everyday essentials that are made to last. Founded in Ireland in 1969, Primark is now an international fashion retailer with more than 500 stores across 19 countries in Europe, the US and the Middle East, employing more than 80,000 colleagues. Millions of shopper’s trust Primark every week for everything from everyday essentials like t-shirts and socks, to the latest fashion trends – all at unbeatable prices.
Primark is built on a belief and passion for physical stores – helping to bring high streets and retail centres to life and creating joyful, social experiences. The company is focused on driving positive change by giving clothing a longer life, protecting life on the planet and supporting the livelihoods of the people who make Primark clothes.
Skills Required
- Qualified tax professional with 6+ years of post-qualification experience
- Strong understanding of EU VAT principles and their application to transactional data and controls
- Experience with data quality and governance, finance systems, or indirect tax operations
- Excellent communication skills and ability to simplify complex tax issues
- Proficiency in Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, or comparable data analysis tools
- Commercial awareness, attention to detail, and strong organizational skills
Primark Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Primark and has not been reviewed or approved by Primark.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is often characterized as fair or good compared to similar retail roles, and overtime availability can improve take-home earnings. Recent UK minimum-rate increases and the removal of age-related pay tiers reinforce a sense of improving pay fairness.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off stands out as comparatively strong for retail, with full-time roles described as having notably generous PTO alongside sick time and paid holidays. This breadth can increase the overall value of the compensation package beyond hourly wages.
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Parental & Family Support — Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and surrogacy payments are positioned as meaningful additions to the rewards package. Ongoing colleague discounts and family-oriented support contribute to a more rounded benefits offering.
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What We Do
Primark is an international fashion retailer employing more than 80,000 colleagues across 17 countries in Europe and the US. Founded in Ireland in 1969 under the Penneys brand, Primark aims to provide affordable choices for everyone, from great quality everyday essentials to stand-out style across women’s, men’s and kids, as well as beauty, homeware and accessories. With a focus on creating great retail experiences, Primark has over 440 stores globally and continues to expand with the aim of reaching 530 stores by the end of 2026. Primark is working to make more sustainable fashion affordable for everyone through its Primark Cares strategy, a multi-year programme that focuses on giving clothing a longer life, protecting life on the planet and supporting the livelihoods of the people who make Primark clothes. As part of this, Primark unveiled nine commitments it is working to achieve by 2030. These commitments include making all of its clothes from recycled or more sustainably sourced materials by 2030, halving carbon emissions across its value chain and pursuing a living wage for workers in its supply chain.
