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About the Role
This newly created role sits within the Group Finance team, reporting to the Head of Tax. As the Senior Group VAT Manager, you will be responsible for assisting with all aspects of VAT compliance for the Group, primarily focusing on EMEA and UK. There will also be significant exposure to VAT consulting projects across the Group. This is a fixed-term maternity cover position.
Responsibilities
- Manage and lead the preparation of VAT compliance in EMEA, liaising with tax advisors.
- Manage VAT submissions and payments, ensuring on-time delivery and compliance.
- Support the Head of Tax on ad hoc tax and customs projects, issues, and opportunities arising in the UK and Internationally.
- Provide technical input and support for Intrastat and EC sales listing declarations.
- Manage VAT correspondence and notices from tax authorities, including assisting with Indirect tax audits by providing data and responding to queries.
- Support the interpretation and development of analytical reviews of new indirect tax policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Support the Team in advancing the long-term VAT technology strategy in relation to the Markets business – Making Tax Digital.
- Work closely with the business to raise awareness of VAT issues, provide guidance on invoicing, and review VAT accounting entries and ledgers.
Requirements
- Experience in a multinational company either ideally in an indirect tax function, or from an accounting and tax services advisory firm.
- Advanced Excel skills (Vlookups, Pivot tables, Sum If, etc).
- Good understanding of UK taxes (mainly corporation tax and VAT).
- Excellent organisational skills, with proven ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, having the confidence to communicate clearly with senior management and challenge commercial teams.
- Comfortable dealing with a cross-section of stakeholders, both finance and non-finance.
- Ability to think logically and methodically.
- Positive ‘can-do’ attitude.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Flexible & proactive, with an eagerness to learn.
- Highly organised and able to prioritise workload effectively within a scaling business.
Skills
- VAT compliance
- VAT submissions
- VAT payments
- Tax consulting
- Intrastat declarations
- EC sales listing declarations
- Indirect tax audits
- Indirect tax policies
- Indirect tax procedures
- Indirect tax regulations
- VAT technology strategy
- Making Tax Digital
- VAT awareness
- Invoicing guidance
- VAT accounting entries
- VAT ledgers
- Advanced Excel
- UK taxes
- Corporation tax
- Organisational skills
- Prioritisation
- Meeting deadlines
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication skills
- Stakeholder management
- Logical thinking
- Methodical thinking
- Proactiveness
- Eagerness to learn
Location
- UK
- EMEA
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Fixed-term
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- CTA or equivalent preferred
- Professional qualification in accounting or tax
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Additional day to celebrate your birthday
- Inclusive parental leave policy
- Pension
- Life assurance
- Medicash
- Employee Assist Programs
- Regular social connects with colleagues
- Dog friendly days and spaces
- Generous product discount and gifting
About the Company
- Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range.
- Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.
- Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond.
- It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.
- Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic.
- The energy behind the brand is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.
- Charlotte Tilbury is a fast-paced and dynamic environment where nimble mindsets, striving to deliver the best and wanting to be part of a global #dreamteam are key.
- Even though we have requirements, our experience and background are just a guide, we still love to welcome applicants with more or less experience stated, provided necessary skills can be demonstrated.
- Be a part of this values driven, high growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves.
- At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves.
- We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce.
- By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.