Senior VAT Manager

We are looking for a seasoned Senior VAT Manager to join our Group Tax function. This role will be responsible for managing the company’s indirect tax affairs, with a particular focus on VAT compliance, advisory support, system and process improvements, and risk management. The role will work closely with finance, treasury, legal, and commercial teams to ensure VAT considerations are appropriately reflected in business activities and strategic initiatives. This is a hybrid role based in our London office (Farringdon/Chancery Lane) on a hybrid basis (2-3 days per week), reporting to the Group Tax Director.

Key Responsibilities

• VAT Compliance and Reporting: Oversee the preparation and review of VAT returns across relevant jurisdictions; ensure accurate and timely filing; review reconciliations, controls, and financial reporting of VAT.
• VAT Advisory: Provide commercially focussed technical VAT advice on transactions - cross‑border activities, supply chains, financing, and business initiatives - while identifying risks, opportunities, and supporting VAT structuring for M&A and reorganisations.
• Risk Management and Governance: Ensure compliance with local and international VAT regulations, identifying risks, maintaining strong processes, policies, and controls, and keeping robust documentation to support VAT positions taken.
• Tax Authority Interaction: Manage relationships with tax authorities, coordinate responses to queries, audits, and investigations and support dispute resolution when required.
• Process Improvement: Drive VAT related financial systems and process improvements by identifying efficiencies, supporting implementation of technology solutions, and ensuring VAT accuracy within accounting systems in collaboration with finance and IT.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the organisation’s primary VAT contact by partnering with internal teams, managing external advisers, and developing indirect tax knowledge within the finance function.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of VAT / indirect tax experience, with a professional tax qualification (e.g., Chartered Tax Adviser) and/or accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA).
• Experience gained in Big 4 / professional services and/or multinational corporate environment specifically in relation to VAT, including VAT compliance, advisory, tax authority interaction and complex VAT issues.
• Strong technical knowledge of VAT and indirect tax legislation with excellent knowledge of cross-border VAT rules, e-invoicing regulations and EU VAT framework.
• Experience implementing indirect tax technology and process improvements an advantage.
• Strong IT skills essential (particularly Excel) and familiarity with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and VAT reporting tools.
• Ability to thrive in a complex, fast-paced and potentially ambiguous environment.
• A confident self-starter with the ability to act on their own initiative and influence people.
• Must also have strong numerical and analytical skills, with a problem solving mindset, and emphasis on attention to detail and accuracy.

Opportunity to shape and enhance VAT processes and systems within a growing, global organisation. Exposure to complex, cross-border tax matters and strategic initiatives, including M&A and business transformation.

Why Join Inizio?

• Opportunity to shape and enhance VAT processes and systems within a growing, global organisation.
• Exposure to complex, cross-border tax matters and strategic initiatives, including M&A and business transformation.
• Collaborative, purpose-driven global organisation.
• Hybrid working model.
• Competitive reward and benefits package.

About iNIZIO

At Inizio, we're a global team driven by a shared purpose: to reimagine health. Formed in 2022 through the coming together of Ashfield and Huntsworth, we unite decades of experience with cutting-edge capabilities to deliver impactful solutions across the commercialization journey - from discovery to post-launch. Our global network of over 10,000 experts operates across 50 countries, supporting clients with strategic insight, medical excellence, creative engagement, and real-world delivery. We work with the world's leading health and life sciences businesses to solve complex challenges and drive meaningful outcomes for our clients and patients.

What sets Inizio apart is our people - and we believe everyone should have the opportunity to thrive. Here, you're encouraged to reimagine your possibilities: to grow, to be curious and to make real change happen. It's a place where your individuality is valued, your development is supported, and your ambition is celebrated. If you're ready to push boundaries and accelerate your career, Inizio is the best place to be.

Our Pledge

At Inizio, we value inclusivity, recognize the power of diversity and inspire the next generation of change-makers. We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in creating an environment that values diversity, equity and inclusion. We aim to recruit from a diverse slate of candidates and foster an environment that provides the right conditions for long-term success. We welcome all applications regardless of race, color, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation and physical or mental disability.