VAT Manager

Job Type: Permanent role

Location: This role is based in our London offices with time spent working in the office and at home.

**Flexible working:**All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Closing Date:  Friday 9th May 2025

Salary and benefits: £65,000 - £75,000 plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

To find out more please reach out to Helen Mellor directly.

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role

We are looking for a dynamic VAT Manager who is experienced in providing VAT advice and undertaking VAT compliance.  The role holder will help manage the Indirect Tax compliance obligations, support projects, manage tax risk and apply technical and business knowledge to aid senior management decision making. Key responsibilities will include:

• Managing the quarterly UK indirect tax return processes
• Providing advice to the business on the VAT liability of transactions
• Ensure effective internal VAT compliance processes are applied
• Manage year end VAT partial exemption and Capital Good Scheme calculations
• Take lead on indirect tax input into projects and manage outputs accordingly
• Supporting the Head of Indirect Tax on complex advisory projects

What are we looking for?

• Professional qualification in tax (e.g. CTA) or accountancy (e.g. CA, ACA or ACCA).
• Experience of a complex indirect tax environment, either in-house or in professional services firm advising large groups.
• Experience in indirect tax compliance, ideally with experience of complex partial exemption calculations
• Interest in and ideally experience of process automation, process improvement and supporting change.
• Interest in financial services, ideally with some relevant experience of Life Assurance and Asset Management sector
• Ability to work flexibly to meet deadlines
• Able to work in a complex, ambiguous and time constrained environment

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

 If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

Please note that we reserve the right to remove adverts earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.

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