Senior In-House Tax Manager | Yorkshire | c80k-95k

Most Tax adverts tell you what the business wants.

Almost none tell you what you get.

So here is one written the other way round.

You get the whole of tax, not a slice of it. Corporate tax and reporting into a US-listed parent. VAT and customs on stock that crosses borders every day. Transfer pricing and the international structure behind a group operating in a good number of countries across Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Most in-house roles hand you one of those.

This one hands you the lot.

You get projects, not just a compliance calendar. Tax reporting, governance frameworks, process and controls: these are areas the business is actively working on, which means there is something to build rather than just a cycle to keep turning.

You get heard. No layer of tax directors between you and the decision. You work with the UK Finance Director and directly with group tax overseas, which is a short route from your judgement to the people acting on it.

You get ready for the job after this one. Multi-jurisdictional compliance, transfer pricing, group reporting under a foreign parent, ownership of governance. That combination is what Head of Tax and Tax Director roles ask for, and most tax professionals collect it one piece at a time over a decade.

Do this role well and you will have all four, and you will be a credible candidate for that level. Nobody is promising you a title. You would be earning the experience that makes the title yours to go and get.

And you get it without moving south. Most in-house teams offering a remit this broad sit in London and the south east, which in practice means relocating or spending your week on trains. This one is a West Yorkshire base, hybrid, c80 to 90k. The exact hybrid pattern is something I am still confirming, so if you are outside the region and the right flexibility would make it work, tell me and I will put the question.

Here is the part most adverts leave out.

This is a senior seat with real ownership, which means you own the detail as well as the thinking. Compliance and advisory, with external advisers and group tax alongside you. If you want to specialise narrowly and hand the rest to someone else, it is the wrong role. If you have been waiting for one that finally gives you the full remit, it may be the right one.

One note on how this is being run. Discreetly, and quickly. There is no application portal and no long funnel. A small number of conversations, then straight to the decision-makers, closer to how a board or executive appointment is handled than a standard vacancy.

Which means an early conversation counts for a lot, and that the people I speak to first have a say in how the role is shaped rather than inheriting a spec someone else wrote.

If you are in tax within a multinational group, or in practice and ready to go in-house, get in touch and I will send you the pack.

Javed Bobat, Co-Founder, iFF Talent

Senior Tax Manager