Tax Manager in Cambridge

Location: Cambridge, UK – Applicants should be based (or willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of our office to attend onsite as required.

Do you enjoy working in a small dynamic team with lots of different problems to solve?

Responsibilities

• Tax Compliance & Reporting: Ensure timely and accurate preparation, review and submission of all corporate tax returns, including UK Corporation Tax (including VGTR/creative industry reliefs and Patent Box), US federal and state filings, and other international tax obligations, working with external advisors as necessary.
• Tax Compliance & Reporting: Ensure timely and accurate preparation, review and submission of VAT and global indirect tax returns (including a mixture of in-house prepared returns and review of externally prepared returns).
• Tax Compliance & Reporting: Manage tax payments and cash tax forecasting.
• Tax Compliance & Reporting: Support tax audits, enquiries and disputes, preparing responses and coordinating with external advisors where required.
• Tax Compliance & Reporting: Maintain oversight of transfer pricing policies and documentation, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.
• Tax Compliance & Reporting: Monitor changes in tax legislation and assess their impact on the business.
• Tax Accounting & Financial Reporting: Lead the preparation and review of quarterly and annual tax provisions and tax calculations.
• Tax Accounting & Financial Reporting: Ensure accurate tax-related disclosures in statutory accounts and group reporting.
• Tax Accounting & Financial Reporting: Reconcile tax balances and ensure integrity between tax and financial reporting systems.
• Tax Accounting & Financial Reporting: Partner closely with Financial Reporting and Finance Operations teams to ensure strong controls and clean data flows.
• Tax Accounting & Financial Reporting: Provide clear and well-documented analysis to support external audit requirements.
• Tax Function Evolution & Automation: Support the Associate Director of Tax in defining and delivering the long-term tax roadmap.
• Tax Function Evolution & Automation: Identify opportunities to automate manual processes within tax compliance, provisioning and reporting.
• Tax Function Evolution & Automation: Improve data extraction and analysis processes, leveraging advanced Excel and financial systems capabilities.
• Tax Function Evolution & Automation: Enhance tax controls, documentation and governance frameworks.
• Tax Function Evolution & Automation: Drive continuous improvement initiatives to create scalable, efficient and well-controlled tax processes.
• Tax Function Evolution & Automation: Evaluate and implement tax technology solutions where appropriate.
• Business Partnering & Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a trusted tax business partner to finance, game development, commercial and operational teams.
• Business Partnering & Stakeholder Engagement: Proactively identify tax risks and planning opportunities.
• Business Partnering & Stakeholder Engagement: Provide clear, practical guidance to non-tax stakeholders on tax implications of commercial decisions.
• Business Partnering & Stakeholder Engagement: Upskill finance and relevant business teams to improve tax awareness and understanding.
• Business Partnering & Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate effectively with external advisors to deliver project-based work and specialist advice.
• Corporate Responsibilities: To behave professionally, maintain a positive work ethic, demonstrate initiative and determination to get the job done.
• Corporate Responsibilities: Work effectively with colleagues within the team and across the company when necessary.
• Corporate Responsibilities: Demonstrate willingness to adapt to the evolving environment of the company, teams and work requirements.

What we’re looking for

• ACA / ACCA / CTA qualified (or equivalent).
• Strong UK corporate tax experience, ideally with exposure to international tax matters.
• Excellent tax accounting knowledge under IFRS, including preparation/review of group tax provisions.
• Advanced Excel skills (including complex modelling, data manipulation and analysis).
• Experience reviewing VAT and indirect tax returns.
• Strong understanding of tax controls and governance.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive mindset with a willingness to “roll up sleeves” and improve processes.
• Comfortable operating in a growing, evolving environment.

What we offer

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
• Discretionary annual performance bonus.
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
• Life Insurance.
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
• Flexible working hours.
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays.

About Jagex

We are Jagex: The RuneScape Company. Home to one of gaming’s most enduring success stories. We create deep, community-powered games with worlds that evolve, inspire, and endure. Our flagship MMORPG franchise, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts, inspiring generations of players across PC and mobile for 25 years. Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, we are home to passionate creators, storytellers, engineers, and dreamers, united by a single mission to shape the future of online worlds and empower players to make them their own. We foster an inclusive workplace built on trust, autonomy, and a shared passion for creating experiences that inspire our communities. Our values guide everything we do: We Embrace Fellowship by collaborating and sharing openly. We Hone our Craft by always learning and improving; We Honour our Vows by being honest and transparent; We are our Customers’ Heroes by striving to understand our team & player needs, and We Seize The Day by making the most of every opportunity. Join us. The next era of RuneScape and the next chapter of Jagex: The RuneScape Company starts now. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and creating an environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and we recruit, develop, and promote based on merit and ability. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the recruitment process, please let us know when you’re invited to interview.