Tax Manager

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About The Role

Motability Operations are currently recruiting for a Tax Manager to join our team in Bristol on a full-time, permanent basis. This newly created Tax Manager role provides an exciting chance to join our friendly, high-performing Financial Reporting & Tax team in Bristol.

The Tax Manager will be responsible for ensuring that MO meets all its tax compliance commitments. This will include ensuring that all tax compliance returns are complete, accurate and filed on time. As well as this, you will ensure all tax payments and recoveries are made on a timely basis. You will also offer tax support to the business by responding to queries and supporting change programmes to help drive the business forward.

Core responsibilities associated with the role will include the following:

• Preparation and submission of Corporation Tax Returns and quarterly instalment payments.
• Calculation of current and deferred taxes and preparation of tax disclosures in MO's Annual Report & Accounts, Half-Year Report and monthly Management Accounts, and provision of clear analysis & explanations for movements in tax balances.
• Providing accurate, well-researched tax guidance to the business, responding to ad hoc queries on a timely basis and supporting change initiatives as required.
• Maintaining an excellent relationship with HMRC and in particular MO's HMRC CCM, and representing MO in its annual Business Risk Review sessions with HMRC.
• Supporting the annual Senior Accounting Officer ('SAO') certification and ensuring this is submitted on time.
• Ensuring that MO's Tax Strategy is updated and published to deadline.
• Ensuring that MO's VAT Returns are accurate and submitted on time, and that any VAT payments/recoveries are made on a timely basis.
• Ensuring that MO's PSA Returns are accurate and submitted on time, and that any PSA payments are made on a timely basis.
• Provision of top-quality guidance on payroll taxes as may be needed,
• Providing tax training and guidance to internal stakeholders as required.
• Maintenance of MO's Tax Risk Control Framework and associated documentation, including Transfer Pricing documentation.
• Proactive identification of upcoming developments in tax rules; assessment of the impact of such on MO; engagement with key internal stakeholders affected; and ensuring that MO implements an appropriate response on a timely basis.
• Assessing the impact on MO of Spring and Autumn UK Government Budgets and communicating that to relevant internal stakeholders.
• Managing engagements with external tax consultants who may be engaged to support MO as needed.

About You

You'll be passionate and embrace change with a high sense of personal responsibility. You will be confident in producing accurate information, with a welcoming approach to new ideas and questions. You'll have strong time management skills and can oversee complex tasks with maximising productivity and attention to detail. As a Leader, you will also have excellent people skills and effective communication are also key to the role and the team.

Minimum criteria:

• Appropriate Accounting / Tax Accounting qualification (e.g. ACA / CIMA or equivalent) with significant PQE
• Demonstrable understanding of UK Corporation Tax & VAT
• Strong mathematical, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in working with colleagues at all levels from across the business, adapting communication approach to ensure the stakeholders have a clear understanding
• Experience in communicating complex tax / financial information to a wide range of audiences.

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 700,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, you can expect:

• An annual discretionary bonus
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
• Employee Discount Scheme with a huge number of retailers and an app to save on the go
• Discounted Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme (we have showers, changing rooms and secure bike sheds on site)

As well as financial benefits, our staff's health and well-being are very important to us, so we also offer:

• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
• Critical illness insurance
• Free access to healthcare apps, such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP
• Funded health screening for over 50s
• 1 day per year to volunteer - Staff can support a local charity or do a sponsored event whilst being paid for it
• Access to our fully accessible company allotment - Where we grow our own produce for local charitable organisations
• Access to Prayer room and quiet spaces whilst working in the office

We also understand that not everyone is the same so offer several voluntary benefits that you can select outside the core package, these include;

• Dental Insurance
• Health and cancer screenings for you and your partner
• Discounted gym memberships
• Charitable giving

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they're rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.

Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.