Indirect Tax Senior Manager

Indirect Tax Senior Manager
Location: Luton, UK
Competitive salary and benefits apply

Introduction to role

Are you an experienced tax professional with a passion for global indirect taxes? Would you like to apply your expertise in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life-changing medicines?

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big, and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person and AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

Accountabilities

The role of the AstraZeneca Global Indirect Tax team is to ensure that the implementation of business decisions is both practical and profitable from a tax perspective while managing risk. It is pivotal in setting the strategy for risk management and control frameworks, attending and resolving controversy matters, driving efficiencies, and providing technical indirect tax advice to the business.

We partner with the business to support with its strategic goals. We provide world-class knowledge, insight, and advice in the area of indirect tax as it relates to AstraZeneca.

This role is responsible for business partnering, advising on commercial and clinical operations, leading, managing and resolving controversies, risk management, and control frameworks.

What you'll do:

• Lead, manage and resolve complex VAT audits.
• Develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive risk management and tax control frameworks.
• Advise the business regarding the indirect tax impact of existing and new supply chains.
• Effective business partnering to secure technical guidance is provided to stakeholders on BAU & new operations.
• Provide support and updates to the business related to indirect tax.
• Identify areas for process improvement/harmonization/savings.
• Work collaboratively with our compliance outsource provider on technical matters to drive compliance improvements and drive data quality and efficiencies.
• Identify and escalate issues of risks and compliance failings.
• Monitor available information with other Taxes in mind and liaise closely with the wider Group Tax team.

Essential Skills/Experience

• You will be an indirect tax advisor, preferably with a professional qualification, and several years of experience in providing indirect tax advice in a large MNC organisation or with HMRC background.
• Strong indirect tax technical capability with a good knowledge of both UK and international indirect tax issues.
• Strong experience leading and managing complex VAT audits.
• Experience with global risk management and tax control frameworks.
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong ability to manage numerous complex projects, progress actions in a coordinated and organised manner and meet tight deadlines.
• Experience working alongside government affairs, and/or working across multi government departments.
• Able to build strong relationships and maintain a network of contacts with other people at a variety of levels across AstraZeneca and external stakeholders (e.g. AZ teams and stakeholders, advisors, vendors, customers, and tax authorities).
• Excellent team working ethos, interpersonal skills, ability to make decisions and confidence to express opinions.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience in pharmaceutical industry or in practice to the industry clients

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day. The fuel behind our evolving, rapidly growing enterprise, we're here to help unlock the power of what science can do and ultimately have a big impact on patients' lives. Integrated and closely aligned with the whole enterprise, we offer our expertise and leverage exciting new technology and digital innovations to accelerate AstraZeneca's evolution. We do all of it strategically, looking ahead to the new challenges we'll face and improving the way the enterprise operates today.

Apply now to make a meaningful impact!

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.