VAT Senior Manager

Group Tax is a key function within the Finance community of LBG, having responsibility for managing the Group's tax affairs. The Group has a wide range of tax payments, deductions, and reporting obligations both for its own account but also for its colleagues and customers. Group Tax manages these obligations on behalf of the Group, ensuring the tax consequences of all transactions are understood and that the Group is in full compliance with its statutory obligations. Day to day, you will:

• Helping to ensure the VAT compliance of the VAT group is correct by reviewing returns, liaising with the business and working with the team to provide dashboarding to senior stakeholders.
• Performing key systems and process assurance reviews to identify gaps and indirect tax risks and then work with system and process owners to rectify issues and define scope of governance and controls to manage future risk.
• Providing VAT advice to the business on new income streams/transactions.
• Management of and assistance with indirect tax audits and enquiries where applicable.
• Working with internal business partners and advisors to assist in successfully implementing the ongoing digital and tax transformation projects currently underway within LBG. To that end you will help to define, implement, test and continuously improve the governance and control framework.
• Identify areas to improve the effectiveness of our VAT activities and initiates efforts to streamline and improve processes using the group's tax technology resources.
• Working with the business to document processes and controls and monitoring implementation of those procedures within the organisation.
• Develops and designs content for training courses in specific functional areas to fill gaps in established programs; runs sophisticated and/or customised training courses to improve employee performance within specific functional area.
• Provide informative, high quality sophisticated indirect tax advice to all business areas where appropriate.
• Build relationships with important internal stakeholders and act as their business partner to understand new product offerings and transactions.
• Delivers own small-scale or medium-scale projects by working within an established programme management plan.
  
  Strong VAT / Indirect Tax technology experience preferably in financial services.
• VAT related qualification essential.
• Good understanding of Tax Technology and data management.
• Experience working in either Big 4, Top Tier Accountancy or Financial Institutions organisations.
• Accuracy, time management and ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Initiative and good people skills with ability to form effective working relationships with colleagues in all parts of the Group and with HM Revenue and Customs.
  
  At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
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Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative, and it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies