Dyson is growing fast, and our ambition is huge – more categories, more locations, and more people. Pioneering technology takes more than just inventive engineers. At Dyson, we take a problem-solving approach to everything we do. Our Tax team manages and balances complex tax challenges across our global business.
The Group Tax function is focused on supporting all areas of the business with growth plans and day-to-day operations, along with meeting our tax compliance obligations.
About The Role
We are looking for an experienced individual to lead the VAT team for the EMEA region. As Senior VAT Manager for EMEA, you will be responsible for overseeing the VAT compliance for the region and providing VAT advise and support to the business. This includes:
- Managing and working with external advisors to ensure the timely preparation and submission of monthly VAT filings (VAT return, Intrastat, EC Sales Lists etc.) across multiple European entities and territories and where necessary, responding to audits.
- Managing a team of two VAT specialists to ensure the monthly extraction of financial data from our SAP ERP system, analysing it to ensure complete and accurate information is reported, for onward provision to external advisors who will prepare the necessary filings.
- Ensuring the review and approval of all filings prepared by external advisors, prior to its submission to governmental authorities.
- Ensuring all VAT payments are made by the required deadlines to tax authorities, following submission of the returns.
- Ownership and approval of all VAT balance sheet reconciliations and other compliance oversight controls.
- Interfacing with the business in carrying out assurance reviews and testing to identify weaknesses and improvements while driving change in other teams’ processes to deliver improved controls and more efficient VAT reporting.
- Responding to non-standard requests received from external stakeholders, including tax authorities, external auditors and other areas of the business.
- Leading VAT technical input of wider business projects with VAT and systems implementation with other key stakeholders.
About You
We're looking for someone who is:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent, with an accounting and/or tax qualification.
- Proven record of managing large compliance programmes across multiple jurisdictions.
- Ability to partner with and to hold to account external advisors.
- Strong technical and operational VAT experience gained in-house or a combination of in-house and in-practice.
- An excellent verbal and written communicator.
- Proven ability to build relationships across the business, lead people and manage multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, complex, ever-changing environment.
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Skills Required
- Degree-level education or equivalent
- Accounting and/or tax qualification
- Proven experience managing large compliance programs across multiple jurisdictions
- Ability to partner with and hold external advisors accountable
- Strong technical and operational VAT experience gained in-house, in practice, or both
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proven ability to build business relationships, lead people, and manage multiple stakeholders
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, complex, and changing environment
Dyson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Dyson and has not been reviewed or approved by Dyson.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision offerings are broad, paired with company‑paid life and disability coverage, plus EAP, backup care, and wellness incentives. Employer‑funded healthcare dollars and premium‑discount or Lifestyle Spending Account options further enhance coverage value.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is consistently advertised on U.S. postings. This provides predictable retirement support across roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing programs, commuter benefits, and notable product discounts supplement core coverage. Wellness incentives and a Lifestyle Spending Account expand lifestyle support beyond medical plans.
Dyson Insights
What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
