Group Tax Consultant - Transformation, Technology, Compliance & Reporting

Working in our Group function you'll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care not just in the UK but around the globe. No matter your role, you'll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day, by helping shape the strategic direction of our business around the world. As our Group Tax Manager you'll support the Group Tax Senior Manager in delivering tax transformation initiatives and leveraging technology to streamline tax processes. This will ensure delivery of tax reporting and consolidation, ensuring compliance with international and UK tax regulations. How you'll help us make health happen: Support implementation of Oracle for Tax Provision, Pillar 2, and CbCR:

• Technology and Excel - Assist with Oracle implementation and develop Oracle SmartView Excel templates for use across the global Bupa business.
• Project Management - in collaboration with our third-party adviser, support tracking and monitoring of project progress, managing deadlines and developing documents to support reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Ongoing Oracle support management - act as tax support for Oracle software, working with Finance Systems Team to support the Market Unit (MU) teams with ongoing system guidance.
• Reports and reconciliation - assist in the ongoing design, development, and testing of reports and other outputs specific to the IFRS consolidation and tax reporting systems. Ensure automation between tax reporting and financial reporting systems.
• Ensure a smooth transition of Pillar 2 and CbCR processes into BAU compliance.
Automation of other tax processes - Identifying use cases for tax automation across the Bupa Group, involvement in global forums to discuss automation opportunities and building of automations (e.g. leveraging small tools such as ETL & visualisation (e.g. Alteryx and PowerBI), robotics, and AI) to improve tax processes. Collaboration and stakeholder management - Work closely with cross-functional teams, tax advisors, finance, procurement, technology, systems architecture, and legal departments to ensure effective communication, coordination, and knowledge sharing regarding tax transformation initiatives. Outsourcing - Managing our advisers in relation to our outsourcing of Pillar 2 compliance. Ensuring deadlines are met, responding to adviser queries, and supporting communications between the adviser and Bupa overseas tax teams. Tax compliance and regulatory reporting. Assist with tax compliance and reporting processes as needed, for example:
• UK Corporation tax returns, UK Corporate Interest Restriction (CIR) returns, Pillar 2 returns, and Country-by-Country Reporting.
• Quarterly tax charge for Group entities, using Oracle's tax reporting software.
• Tax reporting requirements at half-year and year-end, including tax disclosures for Group Statutory Accounts.
• Group's consolidated tax charge for the annual three-year Plan and quarterly rolling forecasts.
  
  Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CTA) with financial accounting background and a minimum of 4 years of experience of tax gained in a multi-national group or large accounting firm.
• Proficiency in technology solutions, particularly Excel and other small automation such as ETL and visualisation (e.g. Alteryx and PowerBI)
• Experience in managing tax reporting or similar tax compliance roles.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels of the Group.
• Attention to detail, with a focus on accuracy and quality in tax calculations, reporting, and documentation.
• Experience in project management useful but not essential.
• Insurance experience useful, but not essential.
• Experience with tax reporting, compliance, and accounting consolidation software useful but not essential, as training will be provided.
Experience with data models and data architecture useful but not essential.

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits. Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts