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About the Role

This leadership position within the global tax function is responsible for shaping and executing the Group’s indirect tax strategy across UK and international operations. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, driving best-in-class VAT governance, optimizing tax outcomes, and leading transformation initiatives that embed scalable, technology-enabled processes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the subject matter expert on VAT, advising on complex and high-value matters including cross-border transactions, new product offerings, recoverability, and business structuring.
• Provide commercially focused guidance to enable the business while ensuring compliance and risk mitigation.
• Partner with Legal and Finance to ensure contractual arrangements are robust.
• Lead indirect tax consideration of transfer pricing policies and intercompany arrangements.
• Oversee VAT compliance across the UK and multiple international jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and consistency.
• Lead the preparation and submission of the Group’s UK VAT reporting, including calculations of partial exemption methodologies and optimization opportunities.
• Design, implement, and continuously enhance tax governance frameworks, controls, and documentation, aligned with SAO and global regulatory expectations.
• Lead responses to tax authority audits and enquiries, maintaining strong relationships with HMRC and international authorities.
• Drive a best-in-class indirect tax operating model, leveraging automation and technology to improve efficiency, scalability, and control.
• Lead indirect tax workstreams in ERP (Workday) and tax engine implementations, including design, configuration, and testing.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives that reduce manual processes and enhance data quality and reporting integrity.
• Lead indirect tax workstreams in M&A transactions, including due diligence, structuring, and post-acquisition integration.
• Ensure newly acquired businesses are seamlessly integrated into the Group’s VAT compliance and control environment.
• Act as a strategic partner to other functions, influencing decision-making across Finance, Legal, Treasury, and operational teams.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with external advisors, ensuring high-quality and cost-effective support.
• Provide training and capability-building across the organization to enhance VAT awareness and compliance culture.
• Proactively monitor and interpret legislative changes, case law, and regulatory developments globally.
• Translate technical developments into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of indirect tax experience, with strong technical depth and proven leadership capability.
• Experience in financial services and/or insurance sector-specific experience (including Lloyd’s syndicates) within a professional services firm or in-house.
• Demonstrated expertise in cross-border VAT advisory and international compliance frameworks.
• Track record of leading tax transformation or automation initiatives, including ERP and tax engine implementations.
• Strong commercial mindset with the ability to balance risk, compliance, and business enablement.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior leadership.
• High level of attention to detail, with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Skills

• Indirect Tax
• VAT
• Cross-border transactions
• Tax governance
• Tax compliance
• Risk management
• Tax transformation
• Automation
• Technology implementation
• ERP implementation
• M&A
• Stakeholder management
• Communication

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 8+ years

Education Level

• ACA / CTA (or equivalent) qualification preferred

About the Company

• Acrisure is a global Fintech leader that combines the best of humans and high tech to offer multiple financial products and services to millions of businesses and individual clients.
• We connect clients to solutions that help them protect and grow what matters, including Insurance, Reinsurance, Cyber Services, Mortgage Origination and more.
• Acrisure employs over 17,000 entrepreneurial colleagues in 21 countries and have grown from $38 million to $4.3 billion in revenue in just over ten years.
• Our culture is defined by our entrepreneurial spirit and all that comes with it: innovation, client centricity and an indomitable will to win.