This global travel company has approximately 9,000 employees in 45 countries including the world's most popular online and the most comprehensive provider of solutions and services to optimise airline operations and reduce costs.

The senior VAT accountant job

The Senior VAT Accountant role is a key position within the tax team reporting to the VAT Manager, who in turn reports to the VAT Director . The role will involve a wide range of responsibilities, mainly compliance in nature.  VAT return preparation will be performed by our external tax services provider or retained finance. Responsibilities will specifically include:

Involvement in VAT compliance across approximately 30 European countries;

• Maintenance of a VAT compliance calendar (VAT payments, VAT filings, VAT reconciliations)
• Maintenance of a VAT provisioning and reporting software tool
• Support on quarterly VAT reporting and VAT SOX processes
• Review of certain UK and Overseas VAT returns prepared by external advisors and retained finance.
• VAT support on cross border VAT reclaims
• Assisting on other compliance issues including HMRC enquiries and other VAT audits in Europe
• Research and analysis on smaller projects and/or in assisting the VAT Manager or Tax Director on larger VAT projects

About you

• 3+ years VAT experience
• Ideally practice experience
• Tax and/ or accounting qualification
• Good technical knowledge of VAT, particularly international services
• Be able to perform research with good analytical skills
• Can multi task and prioritise effectively
• Can build relationships and trust with tax, accounting, legal and business colleagues
• Able to manage their work load independently while being part of a larger team
• Able to deal with ambiguity, imprecise or incomplete data in delivering practical advice
• Good verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate tax issues to non tax people
• Recognise the implications to internal P&Ls and budgets of VAT write offs, external advisory costs and accruals etc, understand risk management and how/when to communicate upwards
• Manages and embraces change

While we need a self starter we will also provide support, mentoring and internal/external training to ensure the successful candidate can to grow and develop as a VAT professional.

Next step

If you feel you have suitable experience for this Senior VAT Accountant job, contact Andrew Vinell today to be considered.