Tax Manager (5-Month FTC)

Your New Role: Tax Manager

This is a hands-on, high-impact role at the heart of a dynamic media business. As Tax Manager at Global, you’ll be responsible for projects, automation, tax compliance, governance, advisory and reporting across the group. As part of a capable in-house team, you will play a key role in supporting the business with practical, well informed tax input across a broad range of issues—whether it's helping shape a commercial deal, navigating new tax rules, or identifying opportunities for automation or other efficiencies.

As a Tax Manager at Global, you will:

Key Responsibilities

Core Tax Operations & Governance (40-60%)

• Deliver UK corporate tax compliance in-house—this is not currently an outsourced model. You'll manage complex submissions and ensure accuracy, completeness and timeliness of all deliverables.
• Deliver tax provisioning and support the year-end close process, working closely with Group Finance under tight reporting deadlines.
• Maintain and enhance internal controls around tax, ensuring the SAO can sign off.

Business Partnering (20-30%)

• Partner with colleagues across Finance, Legal and the business to support decision-making with pragmatic, commercially aware tax input.
• Collaborate on cross-functional initiatives (e.g. employment tax, systems improvements).
• Support strategic projects including corporate structure, financing, and major contracts.
• Identify and review key tax risk areas of the business to understand the key issues, ensure approach is optimised and tax accounting is appropriate

Change & Future Readiness (20-30%)

• Find ways to do tax compliance and reporting better and more efficiently, including automation and engaging in finance initiatives to streamline the business
• Work on Pillar Two and other emerging tax developments, ensuring we’re ahead of upcoming obligations and risks.
• Drive efficiency in our tax approach—this includes ensuring we’re not overpaying, duplicating effort, or missing opportunities to reduce work.

What You’ll Love About This Role

Think Big: You’ll help to shape a strategic tax vision at one of the UK’s largest media companies, helping us make smart, future-ready decisions.

Own It: You’ll be a key part of. Small high quality team that is fully accountable for how tax is managed at Global—with the autonomy to shape how we do it.

Keep it Simple: You'll translate complex tax matters into clear, commercial advice that supports fast decision-making.

Better Together: You’ll collaborate across Finance, Legal, and Commercial, playing a key role in the broader central team.

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you’ll have:

• Taken ownership of UK compliance cycles and tax provisioning at year-end
• Built strong relationships with key internal teams
• Reviewed the current approach, including risk and control framework with fresh eyes and identified gaps, improvements and efficiency opportunities
• Helped to shape our Pillar Two implementation roadmap
• Provided useful, business-relevant input into at least one major cross-functional initiative

What You’ll Need

• Breadth of Knowledge: Strong UK corporate tax expertise is essential-but you'll also need working knowledge of employment tax, VAT, and international tax issues
• Real-World Experience: Ideally, you'll have in-house experience, or a blend of practice and hands-on delivery.
• Technical Confidence: Familiarity with tax accounting, provisioning and advising business on a range of issues
• Delivery Mindset: This is a doing role. You'll need to be comfortable preparing computations and returns, and working under pressure when needed
• Qualifications: CTA-qualified, or ACA/ACCA with a clear tax specialism
• Development: Drive to progress and develop yourself and the role
• Building Trust: Commitment to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment where diverse views and experiences are welcomed and celebrated in your team