Indirect Tax Manager, Financial Times
12 Month FTC to Permanent
2+ days a week in office
Global business publication
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Global business publication
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
The FT has an uncompromising mission: delivering independent, quality information, news and services to individuals and companies around the globe. It’s the cornerstone of our reputation and the heart of our ambitions for the future.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate will bring a strong understanding of UK, EU and global indirect tax and have practical, hands-on compliance experience gained in an in-house position
- Sound knowledge of UK VAT legislation and EU VAT Directives
- Sound knowledge of international indirect tax, including US Sales Tax
- Sounds knowledge of B2C Electronically Supplied Services VAT and Digital Services Taxes
- Sound understanding of indirect tax accounting, including general ledger journals
- Strong Excel and data analysis skills
- Relevant accounting or tax qualification desired (but not essential)
- Experience of tax systems, especially Oracle Fusion and/or Vertex desired (but not essential)
- Resourceful, practical, able to handle ambiguity, resilient, able to function effectively under pressure
- Excellent organisational skills and active approach to risk management processes and controls
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Director of Tax
- This is an excellent opportunity to work at one of the world’s leading business news and information organisations that provides a broad range of essential services, including news, comment, data and analysis, to an international audience of highly influential business minds
- This position will be offered initially on a 12 month fixed term basis, with a high possibility of converting to a permanent role
- Manage VAT compliance for the FT’s UK VAT Group, including in-house filing of UK MOSS, VAT and ECSL / intrastat returns
- Manage compliance for various overseas VAT/GST/Sales Tax registrations, including some in-house filing
- Manage outsourced compliance provider, including reviewing externally prepared draft VAT returns and ensuring reconciliation to internally generated data
- Manage Digital Services Tax compliance and filing requirements
- Actively monitor global indirect tax registration and filing requirements, especially B2C Electronically Supplied Services and Digital Services Tax registrations
- Manage various tax systems issues, including Business As Usual changes such as VAT rate and rule changes, new VAT registrations and digital product taxability
- Manage queries from HMRC and other tax authorities on all indirect tax related issues
- Provide indirect tax support to the business, for example providing advice regarding the indirect tax impact of new product lines or markets being targeted
- Liaising with the FT Finance team on indirect tax accounting issues and invoicing queries
- Review and sign off balance sheet reconciliations for VAT/GST/Sales Tax balance sheet accounts
- Management responsibility for an Indirect Tax Assistant Manager and Indirect Tax Analyst
- Undertake ad-hoc duties and projects as required from time to time in relation to indirect tax
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 1888, the FT has grown into one of the world's biggest online and broadsheet economics and business news providers. It has a strong focus on financial journalism and economic analysis, and provides this essential analysis to companies and individuals across the world.
As well as economics and business, the FT also offers sections on opinion, life and arts, how to spend, and more. In 2022, six of its writers won awards in science, data and investment categories, illustrating the breadth and quality of the FT’s journalism.
The company adapts well to changes in the market to maintain its readership. For example, it recently launched a digital hub and weekly newsletter called Cryptofinance to shine a light on the digital asset industry and how innovations are rippling into mainstream finance.
The FT Group employs more than 2300 people worldwide, including 700 journalists in 40 countries. It includes the FT, FT Specialist, and a number of services and joint ventures. FT's focus on providing impartial, high-quality content has gained it a record-paying readership of over a million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions.
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Company benefits
- A range of training courses as well as confidential career coaching and mentoring
- Flexibility - working from home, job sharing, compressed weeks, and flexible working hours
- Enhanced parental leave, flexible leave allowance and paid volunteer leave
- Pension contribution
- Local health coverage plans
- Gym memberships and healthcare schemes, professional counselling sessions, 24-hour employee wellbeing helpline, weekly meditation classes
- Financial wellbeing products and services
Company values
- Ambition
- Curiosity
- Integrity
- Trust
- Inclusion
- Subscriber focus
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
John Ridding
(CEO)After studying for a degree in PPE at Oxford, John worked as Chairman of Pearson Asia, as well as editor of the FT in Asia. In 2006, he was appointed CEO of the FT Group.
Roula Khalaf
(Editor)Following a degree at Columbia University and four years at Forbes, Khalaf joined the FT in 1995 as Associate Editor and Middle East Editor. Since January 2020, she has served as Editor.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Financial Times
Yasir Mirza (Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion)
- D&I annual report
- Reporting pay gaps
- Next generation board
- Employee networks, including Proud FT, FT Embrace, FT Women, FT Families, FT Sustainability, FT Mental Health and FT Access,
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