Assistant Tax Manager

JOB TITLE: Assistant Tax Manager

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Princess Exchange office, Edinburgh
 

About this opportunity

Join us as an Assistant Tax Manager at Lloyds Banking Group in Edinburgh and you’ll join a team of Tax Specialists, responsible for handling the Corporate Tax compliance and reporting for the Group as a whole.

Working within the Corporate Tax Compliance Team, you’ll provide informative, high quality sophisticated output, advice and mentorship tailored to senior partner needs.
 

Day to day you’ll be;

• Helping us prepare corporate tax returns for group entities ensuring compliance with appropriate risk management principles.
• Interpreting complex processes and lead the efficient and effective production of high-quality output and analysis, anticipating your customers' needs.
• Providing a professional level of support and assistance to Senior Tax Managers and/or the business, using judgement as to when more sophisticated queries require escalating.
• Delivering small-scale projects or well-defined tasks on larger projects to improve support to the business.
• Monitoring and supporting a range of Tax processes and systems to ensure they are effectively maintained and coordinated, recommending improvements.
• Establishing and building internal relationships to identify business requirements and provide appropriate support and guidance.
• Collaborating with the finance team to ensure accurate financial reporting and tax accounting. for individual entities and for group reporting purposes.
• Providing a proactive comprehensive advisory service to ensure that the business is aware of the risks of non-compliance.

About us

Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…
 

What you’ll need

• You’ll be experienced in UK corporate tax compliance and accounting (specifically IAS12), whilst demonstrating a sound understanding of Legislation and applicable case law.
• A professional qualification (either accountancy or tax specific such as ATT/CTA) and strong knowledge of UK Corporation Tax are requirements for the role.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
• You'll be a natural when it comes to relationship management skills, with a proven ability to analyse, challenge and influence.
• You'll be curious about learning how to use technology solutions to provide efficiencies in the team.
• You’ll be proactive and able to work independently as well as part of a team.
• This is a Compliance and Reporting role, and you should have experience in preparing corporation tax returns and tax accounting.
   

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, and build an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of

background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
 

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
   

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.