Group Tax Manager

Overview

The Group UK Tax team is responsible for delivering the full annual cycle of UK tax compliance and reporting for the Group’s head office, treasury, and shared services entities. This includes corporation tax compliance, statutory tax accounting and disclosures, Group reporting, and broader obligations such as group relief, quarterly instalments, CFC reporting, CIR returns, and withholding taxes.

This role offers exposure to a highly visible area within Group Tax, working at the intersection of tax, finance, and systems in a complex multinational environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate key aspects of UK tax compliance and reporting, working closely with the shared service centre
• Act as a key contact for UK tax compliance and statutory reporting
• Apply strong technical expertise in tax, accounting, and reporting
• Work with tax and finance systems (e.g., AlphaTax, Longview or similar)
• Act as a trusted business partner, building strong relationships across Group Tax, Finance, shared services, external advisers, and auditors, ensuring accurate, timely, and well‑controlled processes
• Lead delivery of significant aspects of UK corporation tax compliance, tax accounting, and reporting, including statutory disclosures, returns, group relief, and instalment payments
• Perform technical tax research and provide high‑quality advice
• Support interactions with HMRC
• Drive automation and process improvements
• Ensure strong controls and SOX compliance
• Communicate effectively with senior stakeholders

Qualifications

• Strong experience in UK tax compliance and reporting within large multinational environments, including deferred tax
• Ability to deliver high‑quality outputs while coordinating across teams
• Experience with tax/financial systems and strong Excel skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience in process improvement, including the use of automation and emerging technologies
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• ACA, ACCA or CTA qualified, or equivalent
• Experience of Alphatax CT, Longview, SAP and HFM preferred but not essential
• Strong financial and tax accounting capability, with 1–3 years’ post‑qualified experience in an advisory firm or large corporate environment, and experience of or a clear interest in UK corporation tax
• Proven experience preparing and/or reviewing UK corporation tax returns, computations, group relief claims, group payment returns, tax accounting calculations and statutory account tax disclosures
• Strong working knowledge of core UK corporation tax technical areas, with the ability to identify issues, research, apply judgement and elevate appropriately
• Able to build effective relationships with Group Finance, Tax, the shared service centre and external adviser stakeholders, including senior colleagues
• Comfortable working across multiple teams in a complex organisation, managing priorities and delivering accurately to deadlines

Benefits

• Yearly bonus: 10%
• Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
• Charity days: 5 days/year
• Maternity leave: 52 weeks – the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
• Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%
• Access to private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
• Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan

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