- Developing a strategy for the tax and finance departments aligned with HMRC’s digital initiatives and other tax authorities’ strategies.
- Identifying and implementing automation opportunities to enhance tax risk management, governance, and finance operations, aiming for cost efficiency.
- Driving the adoption of automation solutions across tax and finance functions.
- Optimising advisor management to balance cost-effectiveness while exploring innovative solutions.
- Identifying and evaluating new or enhanced software, ensuring proficiency in implementation and use.
- Providing training to the tax team on automation and software tools to enhance their skills.
- Managing IT-related issues within the Group Tax department.
- Collaborating with advisors to review and improve capital allowance processes, exploring alternative solutions like sampling and historical claims.
- Supporting the corporation tax team with the property database management, running related processes until a permanent solution is found.
- Focussing on automating corporation tax processes over the next 18 months, including supporting tax reporting and governance frameworks.
- Strong tax knowledge, including an understanding of digital tax topics
- Extensive experience working within a tax management, and strategy focussed role
- Excellent SAP knowledge, as well as additional IT skills including Excel and familiarity with automation software such as Alteryx
- Working knowledge of tax software solutions, including software implementations
- Relevant tax or finance qualifications