Tax Accountant

At AO, we make things simple - and that applies just as much to tax as it does to helping customers find the right fridge., We're looking for a Tax Accountant to join our Group Finance team and play a key role in keeping our UK tax compliance running smoothly. Reporting into the Tax Manager, you'll support both direct and indirect tax responsibilities, helping ensure we stay compliant, accurate and well-prepared in a constantly changing tax landscape. This role is a great opportunity to deepen your tax compliance and tax accounting experience, working across VAT, corporate tax and employment taxes, while also getting involved in a variety of commercial and project-based work. You'll work closely with finance teams across the business, helping solve problems, improve processes and make sure tax considerations are built into decision-making from day one. You'll be someone who enjoys detail, likes understanding how things work end-to-end, and feels comfortable balancing routine compliance with more ad-hoc, interesting challenges. Our people are our superpower, and we're unstoppable when we're together! We want your ideas to flow, and what better way to make that happen than being based onsite, 5 days a week, where our culture fuels creativity, collaboration and growth. If a £1 bet in the pub between two friends can become the UKs most trusted electrical retailer, imagine what else can be achieved when we we're together!Here's What You Can Expect To Be Doing Your day-to-day will be varied, but you'll mainly be focused on tax compliance, tax accounting and supporting wider business initiatives, including: Tax compliance & reporting

• Reviewing, validating and submitting UK VAT returns prepared by finance teams across the Group
• Supporting VAT cashflow forecasting and helping the business understand timing and impacts
• Assisting with corporate tax compliance, including preparation and review of computations and returns
• Supporting more complex filings such as capital allowances, CIR, CBCR and Pillar 2
• Assisting with the preparation of RDEC claims and related documentation
• Supporting annual employment tax reporting, including compliance submissions and reconciliations
• Helping manage responses to HMRC queries, audits and information requests
Tax accounting
• Supporting interim and year-end tax provisioning, including deferred tax calculations
• Assisting with tax disclosures under IFRS, ensuring figures are accurate, well-supported and clearly documented
• Working closely with Group Reporting to ensure tax balances are correctly reflected in the accoun
Supporting the wider business
• Providing tax input on new commercial activity, contracts, process changes and one-off transactions
• Supporting tax aspects of systems or process improvements
• Helping keep tax policies, working papers and controls clear, consistent and audit-ready
• Getting involved in ad-hoc projects to support the Tax Manager and the wider Finance team
  
  Tax experience
• UK tax experience, gained in either VAT, corporate tax or mixed tax compliance
• Hands-on experience with tax compliance processes, returns and calculations
• Exposure to tax accounting, provisions or year-end reporting (or a strong desire to develop this area)
• Experience gained in practice or in-house is welcome
Qualifications ATT or CTA qualified (or very close to qualification) Core skills & strengths
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and sense-check numbers
• High level of attention to detail, with confidence in reviewing others' work
• A solid understanding of IFRS accounting (or the ability to build this quickly)
• Intermediate Excel skills, including working with large datasets and reconciliations
• Clear, confident communication skills - able to explain tax matters in a way that makes sense to non-tax colleagues
• Organised, proactive and comfortable juggling deadlines
  
  We're big on appliances and electricals, REALLY big. Washing machines, fridge freezers and TVs? They're our bread and butter. Mobiles, Airwraps and Ring doorbells? Yep, those too. If it plugs in, powers up or makes life easier, AO probably has it.
But we're more than that… For over 25 years, trust has been at the heart of everything we do, helping us become the UK's most trusted electrical retailer. Our customers rate us 4.9 on Trustpilot from nearly ONE MILLION reviews and more 5-star ratings than any other UK electrical retailer, because they know they can rely on us and it's the exact same for our AOers too. We truly believe it's more than just a job, we genuinely care about each other and our impact on making our customers lives easier, by helping them brilliantly. Everyone here knows how their role makes a difference. Our people are our superpower, so, when it comes to finding new AOers, we know it's about more than just a CV, it's about what makes you, YOU.

Our benefits are designed to cover the moments that matter to AOers. From health and wellness to giving back - you'll be rewarded inside and outside of work.
• Holidays; 25 days, plus bank holidays (increasing to 27 days after 2 years with us!)
• Pension; Contribute 5% of your annual salary and we'll do the same, giving you a little extra support for the future.
• Be a VIP at the AO Arena; we have loads of opportunities to win free tickets and pre-sale access!
• Health & wellbeing; discounted gym membership, an onsite spa and our Help @ Hand scheme giving you access to virtual GP's, Mental Health support and much more.
• Discounts; exclusive discounts across our product range.
• Family leave; Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave.
• Making a difference; 2 fully paid days a year to donate your time to any charity of your choice.
• On site perks; start your day with free on site parking, grabbing a complimentary breakfast and a coffee at our in house coffee shop!, Surname
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