We are looking for an experienced Senior Tax Manager to join YouGov’s growing in-house tax function and play a key role in strengthening global tax operations.
You will be responsible for tax accounting, compliance, and international tax matters across the Group. This role will support the transition towards a more centralised tax model, improving consistency, controls, and efficiency while reducing reliance on external advisors.
You will gain broad exposure across corporate tax, deferred tax, transfer pricing, and global tax initiatives within a fast-paced, international organisation.
Key Responsibilities:Tax Accounting & Reporting
- Manage current and deferred tax accounting processes, including reconciliations, journals, and IFRS (IAS 12) reporting requirements
- Support half-year and year-end tax reporting, statutory disclosures, and audit activities
- Partner with Finance teams to ensure accurate tax treatment across Group entities
Tax Compliance & International Tax
- Oversee corporate tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accurate and timely filings and payments
- Review external advisor outputs and maintain strong relationships with tax authorities where required
- Support international tax matters including transfer pricing, withholding tax, cross-border transactions, and regulatory developments such as BEPS and Pillar 2
Transfer Pricing & Process Improvement
- Support transfer pricing documentation, intercompany processes, and policy compliance
- Drive improvements across tax processes, controls, and reporting
- Support automation and internalisation of tax knowledge to improve efficiency and reduce reliance on external advisors
- ACA, ACCA, CTA, or equivalent professional qualification
- Extensive experience in corporate tax, ideally with a combination of professional services and in-house experience
- Strong experience in corporate tax reporting, deferred tax accounting (IAS 12), and multi-jurisdictional compliance
- Experience working within a multinational organisation and exposure to international tax and transfer pricing matters
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial and tax information
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across global teams
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Why join YouGov?
Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.
Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.
Life at YouGov
We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.
We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.
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Skills Required
- ACA / ACCA (or equivalent) qualified
- 8 -10 years of progressive tax experience
- Strong experience in corporate tax and tax reporting
- Exposure to transfer pricing and international tax
- Experience with tax and ERP systems
What We Do
YouGov is an international online research data and analytics technology group. Our mission is to offer unparalleled insight into what the world thinks. With operations in the UK, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, India and Asia Pacific, we have one of the world's largest research networks. At the core of our platform is an ever-growing source of connected consumer intelligence that has developed daily over our 20 years of operation. We call it living data. All of our products and services draw upon this detailed understanding of our 26+ million registered panel members in over 55 markets to deliver accurate, actionable consumer insights. Our innovative solutions help the world’s most recognised brands, media owners and agencies to explore, plan, activate and track better marketing activities: Explore Actionable answers from your audience - from syndicated data and in-depth custom research to quick surveys and polls. Plan Unlock the most complete view of your audience, with over a million profiling points. Activate Supercharge campaigns with precision targeting and unmissable advertising. Track Continuously monitor what the world thinks about brands, campaigns and your competition, with daily updates. As innovators and pioneers of online market research, we have a strong reputation as a trusted source of accurate data and insights. Testament to this, YouGov data is regularly referenced by the global press, and we are the most quoted market research source in the world (Meltwater 2022).
