Job Type: Permanent
Location: This role could be based in either our Edinburgh or Wythall offices with time spent working in the office and at home.
Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.
Closing Date: Monday 24 February 2025
Salary and benefits: From £48,400 plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.
Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.
We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.
The role
This role requires the incumbent to:
* Apply their well-developed tax technical knowledge to support partnering with key stakeholders in the People Function, Finance, Legal, Company Secretariat and Group Procurement and Partner Management to ensure all employment tax risks are being identified, considered and managed;
* Support with employment tax compliance activities and oversight for multiple areas including, compensation, benefits, expenses, share plans, global mobility and off-payroll workers;
* Have an interest in learning/developing knowledge in payroll by supporting the payroll team each cycle, with the overall objective of ensuring employment tax obligations have been met for all transactions. This would include the provision of tax training to the payroll team and supporting the Payroll Manager with complex tax related queries.
The incumbent will report to the Head of Employment Tax with a ‘dotted line’ to the Payroll Manager.
What are we looking for?
* Tax professional with solid practical experience in domestic UK employment taxes and global mobility, together with an awareness of issues arising in share plans.
* Strong tax technical knowledge and highly developed analytical skills.
* Ability to work at pace with a strong attention to detail and delivering accurate outputs.
* Ability to be influential when communicating with key stakeholders and to be able to work collaboratively whilst demonstrating the Phoenix values.
* Candidates with ATT, CTA or legal qualifications and dual experience from professional services and financial services industry background are preferred.
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
Please note that we reserve the right to remove adverts earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.
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