Head of Uk Tax

5 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Heineken Full time

**Head of UK Tax**
**Function**: Finance

**Location**: Edinburgh based (the Gyle) - a mix of office & home working***

**Salary**: £77,000 - £96,000 base depending on experience, plus full benefits listed below.

**Contract**: Permanent

As the nation’s leading pub, cider and beer company and the name behind a host of brilliant brands, we’re looking for equally brilliant people to help us on our journey to building a better future.

There’s so much more to HEINEKEN than meets the eye and right now, we’re looking for a **Head of UK Tax** to join our **Finance Leadership Team**

**About the role**

You will lead an intimate team of 5 colleagues (3 tax managers, 1 tax analyst and 1 insurance manager), providing inspirational leadership as a people manager, member of the Finance Leadership Team and senior leader within HEINEKEN UK. You will manage and optimise the tax and insurance positions of the HEINEKEN UK group, advising colleagues across the business on tax and insurance matters and ensuring compliance with legislative requirements and internal controls. You’ll act as HUK’s first point of contact with UK tax authorities and work closely with our wider Global Tax department.

So what will you be doing? Here’s some of the key responsibilities.
- Own the UK and international tax and insurance activities of HEINEKEN UK to mitigate risk, optimise savings, and maintain compliance for HEINEKEN.
- Responsible for maintaining HEINEKEN UK’s relationships with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) across all taxes, to ensure that all interactions with the tax authorities take place on a real time, transparent and collaborative basis as set out in HEINEKEN’s Global and UK tax strategies.
- Responsible for provision of proactive business partnering on tax and insurance matters to HEINEKEN UK colleagues, either directly or through effective management of UK Tax & Insurance team.
- Lead and motivate a team of diverse individuals to optimise performance and impact on the business, ensuring clear line of sight between the deliverables and how these support HUK business challenges and opportunities.
- Member of the Finance Function Leadership Team, playing a key role as a member of that team in leading and driving the performance of the function and the business overall.
- Responsible for tax input and approval on UK acquisitions, disposals and reorganisations including legal entity reduction. Activities include negotiation with counter parties, instructing lawyers, accountants and tax advisors, and critically appraising advice given, reviewing, amending, and negotiating documentation and responding to change as the project evolves.

**Who we’re looking for**

We’re looking for an experienced team manager with extensive experience in all types of UK Tax. You’ll have excellent communication skills and be able to translate complex topics into easy to digest information for various groups of stakeholders.

If you;
- Are a qualified accountant or chartered tax advisor
- Have extensive UK tax compliance and advisory experience (experience of working in an in-house tax department would be advantageous)
- Have excellent working knowledge of UK and international accounting standards and tax accounting
- Are experienced in managing teams with direct people manager responsibility
- Possess values that align with our HUK Tax Strategy

**Our Ways of Working**

Heineken’s Global Purpose is to “brew the Joy of True Togetherness to inspire a better world” and to fulfil this we believe in working closely with each other and collaborating f2f when we can. To enable this, we ask colleagues to be in the office Tuesdays and Thursdays and one other day of colleague’s choice.

**Our Benefits**

As part of the team, along with your salary you’ll also receive;
- 15% Flexible Benefits allowance (can be taken as cash)
- an annual bonus
- Company funded Private Medical Healthcare
- double matched pension (up to 10%)
- 35 days holiday
- A monthly case of our delicious ciders and beers
- Comprehensive Opportunities to develop.

You’ll also get the opportunity to get involved with one of our colleague networks where groups of colleagues from all over the business work together to ensure we’re always working towards being a diverse and inclusive company.

**The Application**

**Who We Are**

We’ve 150 years of brewing history and are proud of this legacy. Yet we’re sure our best days are ahead of us. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play as we dream big, set bold ambitions and push the boundaries. We support colleagues on this journey with development opportunities and unique experiences to help them reach their full potential.


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