Indirect Tax Manager

5 days ago

ChesterleStreet, Durham, United Kingdom Clarks Full time

Hybrid Role

Purpose:

Manage Indirect tax for the Group in line with the group tax strategy.

Support the team with ad hoc projects

Core Accountabilities:

  • Manage all (excluding US) Indirect/VAT requirements for the group to deliver timely and accurate filing of all necessary returns and payment of liabilities for the group.  Working with Tax Analyst and external advisers (external adviser support varies by Country)  
  • Support the business to ensure indirect tax issues arising from commercial decisions are identified and addressed and tax issues resolved
  • Support Asia office with VAT issues
  • Manage the SAO compliance process for VAT, ensuring procedures robust & documented and periodic sample testing carried out.
  • Keep up to date with tax legislation changes & industry developments, assess the impact upon the business & work collaboratively with the business on any changes required
  • Support with reporting of indirect tax position – focus on cashflow reporting for the group
  • Work closely with the AR and AP teams to ensure transactions and processes are VAT compliant, issues identified and guidance issued
  • Review, develop and improve tax processes/operations to create efficiency, this includes maintaining and improving the spreadsheet workbooks used to prepare the VAT Returns from the ERP VAT Rpt downloads

Skills Knowledge & Experience:

  • Tax specialist requires knowledge which is consistently used. In some areas will work with autonomy and in others provide support to the Group Director of External Reporting and Accounting and the wider team.
  • Accounting and Tax qualifications and/or relevant extensive experience in industry
  • Excellent communication skills with a commercial and proactive approach to problem solving
  • Experience of working autonomously on multiple projects and to deadlines.
  • Effective management of Tax Analyst
  • Strong analytical and economic analysis skills for data interpretation.
  • Well organised with strong attention to detail
  • Extensive business systems and spreadsheet knowledge

About Clarks

Two brothers, a small town, and shoes that changed the world. Based in Somerset, England, Clarks has redefined shoemaking since its foundation in 1825, when James and Cyrus Clark made a slipper from sheepskin off-cuts and forever transformed the future of footwear.

Sparking revolutions and defining generations, our archive of over 25,000 shoes includes the inimitable Clarks Desert Boot and Clarks Wallabee. And every pair we design today uses the same ground-breaking combination of invention and craftsmanship that started it all.

Progress is woven into our DNA. Whether we're pioneering cutting-edge comfort technologies, championing social change, or working on trailblazing collaborations with cultural icons and KOLs, we're always striding forward.

Join us in 2025 as we celebrate 200 years of giving people the freedom to move comfortably, proudly commemorating our legacy of craft, innovation, and impact – and looking boldly ahead, too.

Why join us?

At Clarks, you'll be part of a brand with heritage, craftsmanship, and style at its core. We offer great training, career progression, and the chance to make your mark in a global business.

This document describes the general nature and level of work only. It is not designed to cover an exhaustive list of all skills, activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Other activities, duties, and responsibilities may be added at any time. This description may be changed at the company's discretion at any time, with or without notice.

 

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