Join us as a Senior Indirect Tax Manager
Play an important role in delivering impact by providing timely, accurate, and business-focused VAT advice across all areas of our transactions, projects, and new products
Gain exposure to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) engagement through obtaining rulings and making declarations and claims
Enhance your expertise through collaboration, instructing and reviewing opinions from leading tax counsel and other specialist advisers
We're offering this role until January 2027
As a Senior Indirect Tax Manager, you’ll liaise with other tax colleagues to ensure the consistency of VAT advice with direct tax, transfer pricing, and commercial considerations. You’ll provide additional specialist input and support, including the quarterly VAT compliance process, and settlements and elections with HMRC, as well as supporting VAT account management and reconciliation. You’ll also support services and functions, taking primary responsibility for the analysis and review of complex deals, products, and initiatives.
Furthermore, you’ll proactively work with business areas to ensure competitive cost and invoicing policies, including liaising with clients and external lawyers regarding the liability of our supplies and the legalities surrounding the recharging of costs. You’ll oversee the indirect tax implications arising from offshored services provided to the UK and manage litigated disputes. You’ll also be responsible for meeting HMRC expectations, especially in relation to Partial Exemption, ensuring compliance with the Code of Practice on Taxation for Banks, and becoming well regarded and respected while maintaining strong working relationships at both local and head office level.
In addition, you’ll be:
Obtaining rulings from, making claims on, and delivering information to HMRC and other fiscal authorities based on the collection of confirmed factual circumstances
Assisting in the review of error correction notices and mitigating the bank’s exposure to the penalty regime for careless errors
Assisting in the review of discrete sections of the bank’s VAT returns, including Annual Adjustment and Capital Goods Scheme calculations
Developing colleague abilities through monitoring and mentoring
Proactively raising awareness of the indirect tax team and ensuring effective relationships are maintained with all key internal contacts
Assisting with building and managing the relationship with HMRC and other external contacts through attendance at networking events, industry seminars, and forums for the long-term benefit of the bank
We’re looking for someone with excellent indirect tax technical knowledge, with expertise in financial services as a key strength. You must have significant experience in VAT advisory or indirect tax advisory within financial services such as banking, capital markets, insurance, or asset management, along with relevant and proven experience of dealing with indirect taxes in a professional or major organisation advisory role.
You’ll also need to hold a Chartered Tax Adviser qualification from the Chartered Institute of Taxation, or an equivalent professional accounting or tax qualification, with proven delivery experience in a complex organisational environment. Moreover, you’ll demonstrate up-to-date awareness of relevant tax, regulatory, accounting, and overseas indirect tax issues, alongside strong project management and communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with senior management.
In addition, you'll need:
The ability to manage relationships with often difficult and demanding business colleagues
The ability to provide coaching and guidance to less experienced colleagues, and to take responsibility for aspects of their technical development
Good general business and commercial awareness
The ability to handle a high volume of workload within overall deadlines and service standards
Sound knowledge of Windows, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
26/05/2026Ways of Working:HybridSkills Required
- Excellent indirect tax technical knowledge
- Significant experience in VAT advisory or indirect tax advisory within financial services
- Chartered Tax Adviser qualification or equivalent
- Proven delivery experience in a complex organisational environment
- Strong project management and communication skills
- Sound knowledge of Windows, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
