Direct Tax Accountant - Argos

For more than 50 years, Argos has been a familiar name in British retail, growing from its iconic catalogue beginnings into one of the UK’s best-known digital and multichannel retailers. While our heritage is something we’re incredibly proud of, we’re always looking forward. We continue to evolve how we serve our customers, combining the strength of our brand with digital innovation, technology and a convenient shopping experience that brings together online and physical retail.

It’s an exciting time to join Argos. We’re building on everything that has made the brand successful while continuing to transform for the future. Whatever your role, you’ll have the opportunity to shape what comes next and play your part in the next chapter of an iconic British brand.

Location: London, Coventry or Manchester Store Support Centre & Home – colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.

About the team: The Tax and Treasury team works across Finance and the wider business to protect value, maintain effective tax controls and support well-informed decisions. Within the team, Corporate Tax activity covers compliance, tax accounting, reporting, payments and technical analysis. This role offers broad exposure to reporting, business change and significant transactions, alongside the opportunity to work with Finance colleagues, auditors and HMRC.

More about the role: As Direct Tax Accountant, you will support the delivery of accurate, timely and well-controlled Corporate Tax compliance and reporting. You will prepare UK Corporation Tax returns, computations, supporting schedules, claims and elections for companies, as well as quarterly payment calculations and information used for tax payments, refunds and cash-tax forecasting. Your day-to-day work will include preparing current and deferred tax information for the Annual Report and Accounts, subsidiary statutory accounts, forecasts and budgets. You will maintain reconciliations, records and audit evidence, support transfer pricing documentation and compliance, and help deliver relevant reporting requirements including Corporate Interest Restriction, Country-by-Country Reporting and Pillar Two. You will also research technical issues, support HMRC and audit enquiries, coordinate data for business change or significant transactions, and improve Corporate Tax processes, controls, documentation, data quality and technology use.

More about you: You will bring practical knowledge of UK Corporation Tax and tax accounting principles, with demonstrable experience of preparing Corporation Tax computations, returns, payments and supporting documentation. You will understand statutory reporting, current and deferred tax, audit evidence and financial controls, and be able to reconcile detailed data accurately across multiple reporting requirements. You will be able to research technical tax matters and translate findings into clear, practical guidance for non-tax stakeholders. An organised approach to competing deadlines, collaborative working style and evidence-based judgement will help you succeed. You will hold, or be making substantial progress towards, a relevant professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CTA, or an equivalent qualification.

Essential criteria:

• A relevant professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CTA, an equivalent qualification, or substantial progress towards qualification.
• Demonstrable experience of preparing UK Corporation Tax computations, returns, payment calculations and supporting documentation.
• Practical knowledge of tax accounting, including current tax, deferred tax, statutory reporting, reconciliations and audit evidence.
• Evidence of researching Corporate Tax issues and communicating clear, practical guidance to Finance or other non-tax stakeholders.
• Proven ability to plan and deliver accurate tax compliance or reporting outputs across multiple documented deadlines.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits.

Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Responsibilities: We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.