Head of Indirect Tax

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Location: Sheffield / Hybrid – 1 or 2 days a week in the office

Contract: Permanent

In the last 14 years, Twinkl has grown into the UK’s digital education giant and a global leader in Education with a team of nearly 2,000 people. We continue to explore exciting and innovative opportunities that will help the global teaching community and support our ambitious growth plans.

This is a newly created role to support Twinkl’s rapid international sales growth. You will be a key member of Twinkl’s growing Finance team, which is currently 15 strong. You will be responsible for managing all aspects of indirect tax strategy, planning, compliance and reporting, creating best-in-class processes and controls, while also optimising tax rates considering both sales mix and the use of digital services exemptions.

Main responsibilities include:

1. Overall responsibility for Twinkl’s indirect tax strategy including identifying indirect tax risks and opportunities arising from Twinkl’s global business
2. Optimising Twinkl’s sales tax position and rates in key jurisdictions across the world
3. Implementing robust controls across multiple jurisdictions and ensuring tax processes are scalable and can support Twinkl’s international growth
4. Ensuring global sales tax compliance, delivering all global sales tax reporting, leading Twinkl’s relationship with global sales tax authorities and managing any sales tax audits
5. Leading the budgeting, planning and subsequent execution of global sales tax payments on time, every time
6. Monitoring changes in tax legislation, assessing business impact, providing strategic advice to senior management and communicating changes across the business
7. Collaborating with various operational teams to ensure seamless integration of indirect tax considerations into business processes and decision-making
8. Ownership of indirect tax balance sheet reconciliations, including documentation and continuous improvement processes
9. Ensuring a high level of internal customer satisfaction, building excellent relationships across the business

To succeed in the role, you will:

1. Have a strong education in Accounting, Tax & Finance
2. Hold an accounting and/or tax qualification (CTA, ACCA, ACA, CPA or equivalent)
3. Have extensive indirect tax experience, a track record of developing indirect tax strategies and, ideally, experience across education, technology, subscription or consumer markets
4. Possess excellent knowledge of global sales tax regulations including digital service exemptions
5. Have a proven ability to identify opportunities for tax savings and indirect tax recoveries
6. Have a track record of managing US sales tax, including assessing and implementing third-party tax management software
7. Be an excellent project manager, driven, with a mindset to get things done whilst bringing the relevant stakeholders along the journey with you
8. Have experience optimising, automating and streamlining processes
9. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex tax legislation and provide practical business advice
10. Have excellent communication skills with an ability to explain and report tax matters in a clear and simple way
11. Ideally (but not critically) have experience of multi-company structures and indirect tax assessments for transfer pricing between related parties
12. Enjoy working as part of a hardworking, growing & friendly team!

In return for everything you can bring, we can offer you an exciting role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with plenty of career opportunities.

Here’s a couple of the things that make Twinkl a great place to be:

1. A friendly, welcoming and supportive culture. We believe work should be fun and always put people before the process
2. Diversity, inclusion and belonging – our Employee Network Program includes working groups for LGBTQ+, People of Colour, Disabilities (visible and invisible), Women in Tech and Working Parents.
3. From day 1 – Westfield Health, 33 annual leave days per year (pro-rata) inclusive bank holidays, a “Me” day each year, a charity day each year and Twinkl subscriptions.
4. Quarterly company awards programme
5. Seasonal events
6. Cervical and Prostate screening
7. Company sick pay after 3 months of service
8. After probation – cycle-to-work scheme
9. Long-term service reward – Life insurance, enhanced pension contribution, enhanced maternity pay, enhanced adoption pay and enhanced paternity pay, long service award, long service annual leave

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