Employment Tax Manager - Argos

The Tax and Treasury team works across Finance and the wider business to protect value, maintain effective governance and support well-informed decisions. Employment Tax partners closely with People, Payroll, Reward, Finance, Legal and operational teams, helping the organisation manage its obligations across a complex workforce. This is a visible specialist role with the opportunity to shape policy, influence change and build employment tax capability.

As Employment Tax Manager, you will lead employment tax compliance, governance and advisory activity. You will provide practical guidance across payroll, benefits, expenses, off-payroll working, share plans, internationally mobile employees, PAYE Settlement Agreements and, where relevant, the Construction Industry Scheme. You will also advise on reward, workforce, organisational change and business transformation initiatives.

Your day-to-day work will include designing and monitoring employment tax policies, processes and controls, maintaining the risk and control framework, and coordinating investigation and remediation where issues arise. You will assess new legislation and HMRC guidance, manage HMRC reviews, disclosures and enquiries, oversee employment-status and off-payroll governance, and work with advisers and auditors. You will also provide National Minimum Wage governance and advice, improve data and reporting, and educate non-tax specialists across the organisation.

You will bring demonstrable technical knowledge of UK employment taxes, National Insurance and PAYE, with practical experience across benefits, expenses and workforce arrangements. You will understand payroll, reward, employment-status and off-payroll risk, and be able to translate complex requirements into clear, commercially balanced actions for People, Payroll, Finance and operational stakeholders.

You will use evidence-based judgement when balancing legal requirements, colleague experience, commercial goals and reputational risk. You will be credible when engaging HMRC, external advisers and senior stakeholders, comfortable operating through ambiguity and organisational change, and committed to improving awareness and capability. A relevant professional qualification such as CTA, ACA or ACCA, or equivalent demonstrable experience, is required.

• A relevant professional qualification such as CTA, ACA or ACCA, or equivalent demonstrable employment tax experience.

• Practical knowledge of UK employment taxes, National Insurance and PAYE across payroll, benefits, expenses and workforce arrangements.

• Proven experience of leading employment tax compliance, governance and advisory work, including documented policies, processes or controls.

• Evidence of managing HMRC reviews, disclosures or enquiries and coordinating responses with external advisers or auditors.

• Demonstrable experience of advising on employment status, off-payroll working, reward or workforce change and translating requirements into actions for non-tax stakeholders.

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).