Indirect Tax Manager

As an Indirect Tax Manager will have a core responsibility for ensuring accurate and timely indirect tax reporting in multiple jurisdictions. The successful applicant will also have the opportunity to step into a key technical business advisor position as our businesses expand globally both organically and through M&A.

The successful candidate will have exposure to, and be expected to work closely with, key stakeholders within the business including the Group CFO and Business Finance Directors

As a business we operate on a hybrid workking model where colleagues are required to be in the office two days a week. This role will be based from our Bristol office (Tuesday and Wednesday). As well as this, as part of the role you may be required to travel to some of our other offices based in Southampton, Manchester, including potential travel overseas.

In this role your key responsibilities will be:

General Indirect Tax compliance

• Ownership of all Indirect Tax filing requirements including:

- Multiple UK VAT groups including partial exemption calculations

- Two Irish VAT groups

- USA State Sales Tax returns and Nexus monitoring

- Implement and oversee indirect taxes more globally as we expand. (To include but not limited to: Philippines, Swedish and German VAT returns).

- Support provided by offshore tax analyst who will be led by your guidance

- Manage relationship with professional advisors where required.

• Manage relationship with professional advisors where required.
• Responsibility for reviewing contracts, products and revenue streams to ensure correct tax treatment and preparing papers to document appropriateness.
• Take a leading role in any Indirect Tax audits/enquiries including direct consultation with inspectors and advisors where required.
• Perform VAT health checks to ensure compliance across all entities.

Business Partnering

• Build and maintain direct relationship with key business contacts.
• Act as internal advisor to proactively assess indirect tax issues associated with new commercial business plans, geographical growth.
• Provide Indirect Tax expertise to support M&A Due Diligence activity.
• Support the businesses for all indirect tax issues associated with the integration of newly acquired businesses.

Tax risk management, governance and controls

• Advise and support the Group Tax Manager to build an appropriate governance framework and reporting mechanism for Senior Accounting Officer (SAO), Business Risk Review (BRR) and Corporate Criminal Offence (CCO) regimes.
• Critically review VAT cash forecast prepared by our offshore service centre to ensure accuracy of assumptions and calculations.
• Ownership and review of the indirect tax balance sheet accounts.
• Monitoring and implementing any relevant changes in indirect tax legislation.

This role will benefit from the support from one colleague based in Kochi and will also hold the associated responsibilities for directly line managing that colleague

Essential Skills/behaviours:

• Ability to communicate complex technical topics to key stakeholders including non-finance/tax people.
• Demonstratable experience of working across multiple key projects at the same time.
• Should have a critical mind and ability to recognise where efficiencies and process improvements can be made.
• Proven record of supervising colleagues.
• ACA / CTA qualified (or equivalent) with 4 or more years’ experience in Indirect Taxes OR ATT qualified with significant (6 years +) Indirect Tax focussed experience

Desirable Experience:

• Experience with Netsuite
• Experience with USA sales taxes
• Experience with European VAT
• In-house tax experience

Benefits & Culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary and bonus.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.