Senior Tax Associate

• →Own day-to-day VAT compliance oversight for UK and European entities, including preparation or review of deliverables prepared by external providers. 
• →Manage VAT registrations, fiscal representation, and cross-border issues as the firm's European footprint evolves. 
• →Monitor developments in UK and European indirect tax law (including ViDA, e-invoicing mandates, and financial services VAT exemption changes) and translate into practical guidance for the business.
• →Partner with Finance and Operations on VAT recovery, partial exemption, and ERP/tax engine configuration, and with Business Management on reviewing new business proposals from a tax perspective.
• →Support UK and European corporate tax compliance cycles, including review of computations and returns prepared by external advisors.
• →Assist with quarterly and year-end tax provisioning under IFRS and/or US GAAP for European entities.
• →Coordinate with global tax colleagues in the US on matters with cross-regional implications.

Candidate Profile

• Approximately 5 years of post-qualification tax experience, gained in a Big 4 / mid-tier practice, in- house tax function, or a combination of both. 
• ACA or CTA qualified (or recognised non-UK equivalent).
• Demonstrable UK VAT technical strength, including exposure to cross-border service flows and, ideally, financial services or trading-industry VAT issues (partial exemption, financial services exemption scope, commodity trading). 
• Working knowledge of UK corporate tax, with the ability to research and form views on unfamiliar continental European tax issues. 
• Comfort operating independently in a lean team, managing external advisors, and prioritising across multiple concurrent workstreams.

• Prior in-house experience within financial services, trading, asset management, or a similarly regulated environment. 
• Exposure to VAT regimes across multiple EU member states (Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain). 
• Familiarity with e-invoicing / real-time reporting mandates and tax technology tooling. 
• Exposure to Pillar Two, transfer pricing, or withholding tax analysis.