Employment & Expat Tax Manager London

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The Role

We are seeking an Employment and Expat Tax Manager to join our Group Tax team, reporting to the Director of Tax. This role combines global mobility tax expertise with strong UK employment tax knowledge, supporting a dynamic and internationally mobile workforce. You will play a key role in ensuring compliance across multiple jurisdictions, advising on complex tax matters and partnering closely with HR, Global Mobility, Payroll and Finance teams. This is an excellent opportunity for a tax professional who thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment and enjoys solving complex, cross-border challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Expat (Global Mobility) Tax Compliance
  • Partner with the Global Mobility team to ensure robust processes and controls for capturing and managing tax and social security obligations across jurisdictions.
  • Oversee expat payroll and tax vendor relationships, ensuring compliance, efficiency and cost control.
  • Support compliance across home and host countries, including areas such as LTIPs, bonuses, termination payments and pension contributions.
  • Ensure pension plans are appropriately structured to maximise tax efficiency in host locations.
  • Provide guidance on business travel tax risks and implement tracking processes where required.
  • Support tax protection policies for internationally mobile employees.
  • Collaborate with finance teams on accounting treatment for expat payroll complexities.
  • Address evolving global employment tax challenges and ad hoc mobility issues.
• UK and Employment Taxes
  • Ensure full compliance with UK employment tax reporting obligations (e.g. PSA, Appendices 4/7B/8, Section 690, P11Ds).
  • Manage employment tax aspects of employee benefits, including pensions, salary sacrifice and incentive schemes.
  • Act as the primary contact for HMRC on employment tax matters.
  • Support Senior Accounting Officer certification through risk identification and assurance processes.
  • Oversee IR35 assessments and compliance.
  • Advise on tax implications of remote and flexible working arrangements.
  • Partner with Finance to ensure accurate accounting and reporting of employment tax-related costs.
  • Provide input into M&A due diligence from an employment tax perspective.
  • Identify tax efficiencies and deliver training to internal stakeholders.
  • Support overseas teams with employment tax matters where required.
  • Line manage and develop a Tax Analyst.

Required Skills and Experience

• 3–5 years’ experience in expat (global mobility) tax compliance, including tax equalisation and hypothetical tax calculations.
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment tax compliance requirements.
• Experience managing cross-border tax obligations from both home and host country perspectives.
• Solid understanding of accounting principles, including general ledger processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities and deliver under pressure.
• A proactive, practical and solutions-focused approach.
• Understanding of international employment tax frameworks.
• Professional tax qualification (e.g. CTA, ATT or equivalent).

What’s in it for You?

Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing best-in-class perks across all our offices. These include generous annual leave, medical cover, inclusive parental leave packages, subsidised gym memberships and opportunities to give back to the community. We’ve embraced a 50% hybrid working model (averaging two to three days onsite) that fosters trust and remote adaptability while encouraging in-person camaraderie and peer learning. Additionally, we are open to accommodating specific flexible working pattern requests for all roles where feasible.

Accessibility

We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory.