Indirect Tax Junior Manager

About the role

The role requires a sound technical understanding of UK, Irish and Hungarian VAT legislation relating to both domestic and cross border transactions. Ideally the role will require some knowledge of how other taxes (notably customs and excise) interact with VAT.

The role is key in supporting the indirect tax team in providing VAT technical advice, and support to the Business Units and Global Functions on VAT queries and projects.

Internally, it is expected to have a high degree of interaction with the other SMEs as well as VAT Compliance, Tax Business Partners, and the Technology and Governance teams.

Externally, it will support the Indirect Tax team's relationships with advisors, Tax Authorities and other third parties.

This role is an integral part of ensuring Global Tax is able to deliver its objectives of supporting the business and proactively managing indirect tax risks. It ensures that Diageo continues to maintain its high standards in terms of strategic VAT management and value protection.

Top Accountabilities

• Support the Indirect Tax teams in the provision of VAT technical support and advice on VAT matters to the Tax Business Partners, Business Units, Global Tax Compliance/ Technology/ Governance teams

• Support the Indirect Tax teams and Tax Business Partners to facilitate the collation, organisation and provision of information for the business and Tax Authorities ensuring timely resolution of queries and open issues.

• Support the Indirect Tax teams in the delivery of the Global VAT strategy and liaise with key partners.

• Support the Indirect Tax teams/Tax Business Partners in the management of relationships, queries and audits on VAT matters.

What you'll bring

Relevant professional qualification and 5 years of experience in mostly UK/Irish/Hungarian VAT legislation

Experience

• Practical experience of VAT procedures including governance, controls, compliance and related accounting and documentation.
• In depth knowledge of mostly UK and EU VAT legislation and how it is interpreted and applied in the UK, Ireland and other EU territories with specific regard to cross-border supplies of goods and services.
• Knowledge of SAP
• Experience with the VAT rules/implications of domestic and cross border Direct to Consumer/eCommerce/Retail systems/platforms and e-Invoicing an advantage
• Working knowledge of interaction between VAT and other taxes, particularly excise and customs duties

Skills

• Ability to work through others or exercise influence to deliver performance improvement.
• Good English language and communication skills
• Generates and sustains great working relationships and networks across the organisation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Flexibility for adapting to change, often at short notice, with positive attitude.
• Strong risk management skills, ability to follow-up/flag potential issues
• Commercially astute, analytically strong strategic problem solver with the ability to constructively challenge business units in relation to solid compliance.
• Courage to maintain focus and integrity in tough situations.
• Proactive and a self-starter comfortable operating independently

Benefits

• Unique Family Leave opportunity

• We work without border - you will work with people from all over the world

• You will deal with world class brand portfolio

• Wide variety of thematic events, afterwork activities organized by employee communities

• Product Allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop

• We won the Fittest Workplace Award, of course we have a Gym

• Urban legend is true, we do have a Rooftop Bar

Flexibility

This is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time and compressed hours. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.

Diversity statement

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo's purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.