UK Employment Taxes Manager- 12 month FTC

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About the Function:  

 Global Tax comprises c250 professionals based in 80 countries globally, responsible for all taxes.   

Within Global Tax, the Employment Taxes Team deliver on their responsibility for managing the global employment taxes agenda.   The UK is the HQ location with over 5000 employees, and there are c28,000 employees with annual Employment Taxes collected and paid of c£500m globally.  

Market Complexity: The role requires a comprehensive understanding of Employment Taxes and Social Security, Share Schemes and Expatriate taxation. Knowledge of cross-jurisdictional employment tax & social security issues is preferred. 

About the role:  

The role is UK technical and business partnering, including UK-touching cross border issues.  Working with the Senior Manager and reporting in to the Associate Director for some aspects, you will be accountable for all UK employment tax returns, partnering with team members and supporting with advisory and consulting projects.

Role Responsibilities: 

The role will require extensive business partnering; proactive support to partners; HR (including Payroll), Reward, Global Tax, Global Mobility and Finance Directors.   

Supervising all aspects of UK employment tax compliance and taking accountability for 100% compliance in this area.  The role will also provide support for proactive strategic employment tax management (compliance & planning) for the UK to ensure the best approach is adopted. 

Training will be provided in areas where the candidate is less experienced, and the role provides the opportunity to develop expertise in risk management, automation of processes, global equity and employee trusts.   

• Understand and engage in the management and monitoring of employment tax and social security risks in UK.  

• Advise, guide and educate partners on key employment tax issues to enable the business to adopt and enforce relevant tax policies and standards, and mitigate tax and reputational risk.  

• Execute specific tax related processes/activities following agreed global standard processes and governance framework and identify opportunities for standardisation and simplification.  

• Participate in tax projects to deliver shareholder value/mitigate employment tax risks.  

• Provide support on employment tax and social security audits and tax enquiries.  

• Ensure that the business is kept up to date with, and is made aware of, legislative changes. 

• Liaise with advisers to gain knowledge of employment taxes topical issues in UK.  

• Review all aspects of the remuneration package to ensure that non-cash items are being treated correctly for UK tax and social security. 

• Prepare compliance submissions to HMRC where reports are not dealt with by Payroll. Ensure liabilities arising from such submissions are paid on time - (SAO, PAYE/NI audits, collating data and producing the annual PSA computation, Taxed Award Scheme, Short Term Business Visitors, Foreign Entertainers, Construction Industry Scheme, Termination report; expenses, benefits etc plus input to Payroll on PAYE/P11D reporting and processes). 

• Ensure that equity files provided by the provider are processed correctly and that reclaims of tax withheld from employees are processed by Finance. Ensuring that payroll files relating to International Assignees are processed correctly and that all local non-cash items are picked up by advisers.  

• Assist in testing of payroll items to ensure compliance. 

Qualification and Experience

• Qualified accountant or tax adviser with experience in employment/payroll taxes, ideally with some in-house experience.  

• Technical knowledge of employment taxes and social security in UK; year-end reporting, expenses management, etc.  

• Knowledge of equity taxation is helpful but training can be provided. 

• Previous involvement in tax authority audits is helpful. 

• Experience of cross-border issues such as international assignees, business visitors and remote workers.  

The skills you will need: 

Language  

• Strong written and spoken English is required.   

Interpersonal  

• Good interpersonal, business partnering and influencing skills. 

• Ability to flex style across different cultures. 

• Strong team-working skills. 

• Capable of working as part of a multi-functional team. 

• Strong internal and external communication skills.  

Technology  

• Numerate and computer literate including good knowledge of Word, Excel and Powerpoint, confident with video conferencing, Zoom, Teams etc. Knowledge of Alteryx would be an advantage, but training can be provided. 

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to handle your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Diversity statement:  

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this. 

We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. 

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.  

Join us, and you'll be part of an organisation that embraces diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of — and help build — an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, approaches, and more. And you'll help us champion inclusion and diversity across our entire business: with our employees, our suppliers, across our brands, and within the communities in which we operate.