Job no: 527655
Brand: Finance, Procurement, Legal, Privacy, Property
Work type: Full time
Location: London
Categories: Finance & Strategy

ABOUT FLIGHT CENTRE TRAVEL GROUP

Flight Centre Travel Group is one of the world’s largest travel companies with over 12,000 employees globally - who we call ‘Flighties’. With over thirty brands under our family tree and headquarters in more than twenty countries, our roles are diverse and our opportunities are endless. When, we say we’re a great place to work, we have the proof to back it up. Over the past 12 years we’ve been voted a ‘Great Place to Work’ including one of the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing and Best Workplaces for Women. Together, we live and breathe our number one philosophy, our people, and turn up each day driven by our purpose to open up the world for those who want to see. Put simply, we’re a bunch of travel lovers looking for more travel lovers to join our family.

PRE-REQUISITE EXPERIENCE

• ACA or CTA qualified with minimum 8 years’ post-qualified experience in an in-house corporate or indirect tax role or reputable professional services firm.
• European or International Tax experience, including with a VAT system, essential
• Travel industry experience will be advantageous

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

This role requires:

• Proven tax technical proficiency, able to research and apply legislation and case law
• Experience of managing tax audits to completion
• Commercially aware, focused on delivering pragmatic solutions and a strong customer focus, including addressing customer queries in relation to relevant tax matters, (supporting Sales and Account Management teams).
• Strong initiative to resolve issues or pursue new business opportunities
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to develop relationships at all levels
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated leadership capability
• Flexibility and an ability to deal with change and pressured work environment
• Strong organisational, administrative and time management abilities
• A high level of professionalism and proven teamwork skills
• Excel / PowerBi skills with exposure to data analytics highly favourable
• Ability to take ownership of projects, work collaboratively with others and see projects to completion
• Attention to detail
• Ability to travel/attend meetings and conferences

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role is part of the Europe Finance Leadership Team within Flight Centre (UK) Limited, Flight Centre Travel Group Limited’s (FCTG) UK subsidiary and also the Global Tax Team for FCTG (based in Brisbane, Australia).
The scope of this role is very broad, with the focus being management of tax compliance, risk management and strategy for FCTG group companies and branches based in Europe, Middle East & Africa (FCTG EMEA):- UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.
The Senior EMEA Tax Manager will be supported by local finance resources and the EMEA Tax Manager & South Africa Tax Managers for tax compliance (i.e. one direct report in EMEA Head Office and one functional report in South Africa).
You will maintain functional ownership of all areas of EMEA Tax and the relationship with the UK’s tax authority (HMRC) other Europe and Middle East tax authorities.
Importantly, this role will also have a strong strategic focus of proactive risk management, advising on tax issues, training, improving systems and processes, and implementing policy and legislative changes and pursuit of tax opportunities.
Travel will be required as part of this role to attend internal conferences, ‘downloads’ and ‘buzz nights’ in London as well as ad hoc travel to FCTG EMEA offices.
As a member of the European Finance Leadership team you will share in collective responsibility for shaping and directing the wider Finance Function.

This role requires:

• Proven tax technical proficiency, able to research and apply legislation and case law
• Experience of managing tax audits to completion
• Commercially aware, focused on delivering pragmatic solutions and a strong customer focus, including addressing customer queries in relation to relevant tax matters, (supporting Sales and Account Management teams).
• Strong initiative to resolve issues or pursue new business opportunities
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to develop relationships at all levels
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated leadership capability
• Flexibility and an ability to deal with change and pressured work environment
• Strong organisational, administrative and time management abilities
• A high level of professionalism and proven teamwork skills
• Excel / PowerBi skills with exposure to data analytics highly favourable
• Ability to take ownership of projects, work collaboratively with others and see projects to completion
• Attention to detail
• Ability to travel/attend meetings and conference