About the Role
Lead the design and delivery of technology-enabled tax solutions for large and listed businesses, helping them modernize their tax functions in response to increasing regulatory complexity, digital reporting mandates, and the strategic use of data. This role combines deep tax technical knowledge with digital capability, working closely with clients to reimagine processes, implement automation and data-driven solutions, and embed AI-enabled tools into tax operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead tax technology transformation engagements, from diagnostic and roadmap design through to implementation
- Advise clients on modernizing tax operating models, governance frameworks and controls
- Design and implement automation solutions across compliance, reporting and data management processes
- Advise on tax data management, including data governance, quality and architecture as the foundations for automation and AI-enabled workflows
- Support clients with digital tax requirements, including e-invoicing, real-time reporting, Making Tax Digital and Pillar Two data readiness
- Apply data analytics and AI tools to enhance tax insights and reporting accuracy
- Guide the selection, implementation and optimisation of tax technology platforms
- Support clients through the organisational change the technology transformation requires, working across tax, finance, IT and data teams
- Lead the firm in designing and adopting technology and AI‑enabled ways of working, championing digital tools that enhance delivery and empower teams
- Collaborate with colleagues across jurisdictions within the WTS Global network
- Build and maintain strong client relationships
- Contribute to business development initiatives and proposal preparation
- Coach and develop junior team members
Requirements
- CTA, ACA, CA, ACCA or equivalent professional qualification (or equivalent experience in tax technology transformation)
- Strong understanding of UK corporate tax compliance and reporting processes
- Experience delivering tax technology or finance transformation projects
- Practical knowledge of ERP systems, tax reporting tools and automation technologies (e.g. ONESOURCE, Alteryx, SAP, or similar)
- Understanding of digital tax developments including Pillar Two, BEPS, Making Tax Digital and global minimum tax reporting requirements
- Ability to bridge tax technical expertise with data, systems and process design
- Commercial awareness and ability to deliver practical advice
- Experience managing client relationships and stakeholders across tax, finance and technology functions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- A collaborative mindset aligned with our culture
- Stays on top of emerging tax technology and AI, and applies AI tools in daily work
- Has an informed opinion on how tax technology should work, based on experience
- Understands data quality and architecture as the foundation for successful transformation, and has advised on data governance in a tax context
- Evaluated and selected technology solutions based on client needs
- Leads change and brings people and organizations along
- Thinks commercially about how technology changes the economics of tax delivery
Skills
- Tax technology transformation
- UK corporate tax compliance and reporting
- Finance transformation
- ERP systems
- Tax reporting tools
- Automation technologies
- Digital tax developments
- Pillar Two
- BEPS
- Making Tax Digital
- Global minimum tax reporting
- Data management
- Data governance
- Data architecture
- Data analytics
- AI tools
- Client relationship management
- Stakeholder management
- Communication skills
- Business development
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
- Advisory
Experience Level
- Manager
- Senior Manager
Education Level
- CTA
- ACA
- CA
- ACCA
- Equivalent professional qualification
- Equivalent experience in tax technology transformation
Benefits
- Bureaucracy-free environment
- High-growth firm
- Technology & AI-led firm
- Direct exposure to senior leadership
- Complex client work
- International collaboration
- Culture built on collaboration, not hierarchy
- Access to best-in-class technology and AI
About the Company
- WTS UK is a new non-audit tax advisory firm offering the full range of services to large and listed businesses.
- Takes a fresh approach to tax advisory - unafraid to offer bold perspectives on complex issues.
- Provides clear, actionable advice, demonstrating what’s possible when a firm is purpose-built for today’s environment.
- Modern, focused, and powered by senior expertise, WTS is an AI-native firm, designed from the ground up with technology at the core of how we work.
- No legacy systems to work around, no audit conflicts restricting which tools can be used, and the freedom to curate the best external platforms for every client need.
- Moves quickly, onboarding new technology in weeks, not months or years.
- Proud to be part of WTS, headquartered in Munich, and connected through WTS Global, a network spanning 100 countries.
- Combines international reach with entrepreneurial agility.
