Assistant Tax Manager

Join Howdens as an Assistant Tax Manager at our Wigmore Street office in Central London and build your career within an industry leading FTSE 100 organisation.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for growth, reporting directly to the Head of Tax. You’ll take ownership of key tax responsibilities while continuing to develop your tax expertise within a large, complex organisation.

This is a full-time, permanent role, working on-site with the team four days a week and one day from home.

What you’ll be doing as an Assistant Tax Manager:

- Leading the preparation of the group’s consolidated full year and half year corporation tax reporting, including: capital allowances; patent box; transfer pricing adjustments; share based payments
- Working with internal finance teams and our external tax compliance providers to prepare the UK corporation tax computations for all UK entities.
- Undertaking capital allowances analysis and work with UK finance teams to improve efficiency of processes
- Calculating transfer pricing adjustments, work with internal finance teams and external advisors to ensure compliance with OECD principles
- Working with internal finance teams and external advisors to ensure compliance in overseas jurisdictions
- Partnering with our internal finance teams to forecast the corporation tax charge, cash tax and effective tax rate and preparing and submitting the UK and overseas VAT returns.
- Preparing the consolidated and individual entity financial statement tax disclosures
- Liaising with auditors to explain our position, provide relevant support and rationale for any judgements or assumptions made
- Working with the business (including IT, HR, credit control, etc) to ensure processes and controls are appropriate and documented for SAO purposes
- Maintaining the calendar of tax compliance, ensuring returns and payments are on time
- Work with the finance teams to prepare the PSA and various teams to prepare the plastic tax return
- Analysing expenses and working with HR and payroll to prepare P11Ds

What we are looking for from you:

- ACA / ACCA / CTA qualified (or equivalent) with strong UK corporate tax experience
- Proven experience in an Assistant Tax Manager or Tax role, ideally inhouse within a large or multi-site organisation
- Strong technical knowledge of UK tax legislation and compliance requirements including VAT
- Ability to translate complex tax matters into clear, commercial advice
- Confident stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships across Finance and the wider business
- Strong attention to detail and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset
- Experience working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Previous experience using Onesource VAT MTD or SAP would be desirable

About Howdens:

As the UK’s leading trade kitchen supplier, Howdens proudly supports over 460,000 trade professionals through our network of 950+ depots. As a constituent of the FTSE 100 and with sales of £2.4 billion last year, we continue to expand, offering exciting opportunities for growth in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment.

What we can offer you as an Assistant Tax Manager:

- Competitive salary and car allowance
- Company performance related annual bonus
- Excellent pension scheme (company contribution of up to 12%)
- Private Healthcare for you
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays. Holiday entitlement increases with service
- Generous staff discounts on Howdens products
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Share save scheme.
- Virtual GP access and wellbeing support for you and your family
- Exceptional reward and recognition events

Howdens is founded on the principle of being Worthwhile for ALL concerned. We’re working hard to ensure we provide an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome. We will do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, please email (url removed) with the job title and location, and we will be happy to help you. 

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