Tax Manager in Shirley

Pinewood.AI is seeking a proactive and commercially minded Tax Manager to take ownership of UK tax compliance while also providing broader accounting support across the finance function. Reporting directly to the Group Finance Director, this newly created role represents our first dedicated in-house tax hire and offers the opportunity to shape how tax is managed across a growing international business. The role is primarily focused on UK corporation tax, VAT, and employment taxes, alongside the coordination of international tax compliance through our external advisers and local finance teams. In addition, we are looking for someone with the technical grounding and flexibility to step into wider financial reporting, statutory accounting, and controllership activities to support the wider team during key reporting cycles or business projects.

As we continue to scale, you’ll play a key role in strengthening governance, improving processes, and supporting a more co-sourced approach to managing tax across the Group. This role would suit an ACA-qualified professional trained within a leading UK accountancy practice, with strong tax credentials and the confidence to operate across both tax and broader finance matters in a fast-paced listed technology environment.

• Take ownership of UK corporation tax compliance, including preparation, review, and submission of tax computations and returns, ensuring accuracy and timely filings.
• Manage UK VAT compliance, overseeing reporting cycles, reviewing reconciliations, and ensuring appropriate controls are embedded.
• Oversee employment taxes, PAYE, and P11D processes in collaboration with HR, ensuring compliance with current legislation and internal policies.
• Serve as the main liaison for HMRC correspondence and enquiries, coordinating responses and working with external advisers where appropriate.
• Manage relationships with external tax advisers, reviewing deliverables, responding to queries, and ensuring accurate and timely submissions.
• Coordinate international tax compliance across the Group’s entities, ensuring information is gathered efficiently, and obligations are met across all jurisdictions.
• Lead on tax forecasting, provision calculations, and tax reporting for group accounts, working closely with Finance during month-end and year-end processes.
• Support transfer pricing documentation and intercompany arrangements, ensuring alignment with operational and commercial activity.
• Develop and implement tax policies, controls, and documentation to strengthen governance and support the move toward a co-sourced model.
• Monitor developments in UK and international tax legislation, assessing potential impact on the Group.
• Build strong working relationships across Finance and international teams, acting as a trusted internal contact for tax-related matters.

• ACA qualified is essential. CTA or additional tax qualifications would be advantageous.
• Trained within a leading UK accountancy practice (Big 4 / Top 7 firm such as KPMG, PwC, Deloitte, EY, BDO, Grant Thornton or RSM).
• Strong technical grounding in UK corporate tax, with hands-on experience preparing and reviewing tax computations and returns.
• Solid understanding of VAT and employment taxes, with the ability to apply technical knowledge pragmatically.
• Exposure to multi-entity groups or international tax coordination (desirable but not essential).
• Experience liaising with external advisers and reviewing technical outputs.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines.
• Confident communicator, able to build effective relationships across teams, seniority levels, and geographies.
• Comfortable operating in a growing, evolving business where processes are still being defined.
• Genuinely motivated to build a long-term career in tax within an industry environment.

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Bonus scheme
• Share scheme
• Hybrid working
• 25 days holiday plus all UK bank holidays
• 4x life assurance
• Enhanced family-friendly leave - 5 months' full pay for maternity or adoption, plus 2 weeks' fully paid paternity/adoption leave and an extra 2 weeks to use as paid annual leave within 24 months of birth or adoption
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - free, confidential 24/7 support for you and your immediate family (including counselling, legal & financial advice, and wellbeing resources)
• Ongoing training & professional development
• Cycle to Work scheme - save up to 40% on bikes and accessories through salary sacrifice
• Eyecare vouchers - free eye test and contribution towards prescription glasses
• Regular social events
• Employee recognition and awards

This is a unique opportunity to take ownership of Pinewood.AI’s tax function at a time of global growth and transformation. As our first in-house tax specialist, you’ll gain broad exposure across international operations while helping build scalable, well-governed tax processes within a high-performing finance team. You’ll work closely with senior leadership and external advisers, gaining responsibility and visibility far earlier than you would in a larger corporate tax team.

As Pinewood.AI continues to expand globally, the scope and complexity of the role will grow naturally with the business, offering long-term development within a dynamic and ambitious organisation.

Our story began more than 20 years ago, but right from the start, it has been rooted in the specific needs of the automotive industry. As automotive professionals as well as technologists, we wanted to build practical technology solutions that were designed around how automotive businesses work, recognising what makes them different. Pinewood.AI is an unparalleled Automotive Intelligence Platform that enables automotive retail customers and OEMs to drive growth and profitability throughout every aspect of their business. Pinewood’s cloud-based, secure end-to-end ecosystem unlocks the value of every customer. Our vision is to be the full-service technology partner that helps automotive retailers and OEMs run more efficiently and increase revenue by making better commercial and business decisions more easily.