VAT manager

Job Description

VAT Manager

Derby UK

Derby/Hybrid minimum 3 days on site per week

What you will be doing:

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Group Tax & Customs team with a specific focus on ensuring our indirect tax obligations are met. The team are responsible for managing the Groups worldwide tax affairs and the successful candidate will be part of a small team of tax professionals based in the UK.

The role reports to the Head of VAT and will be responsible for ensuring that the Group meets its indirect tax obligations advising on VAT matters primarily in respect of the UK entities within the Group as well as overseeing its VAT compliance requirements. The role will work closely with key stakeholders within Group Business Services as well as the finance and business teams across each of the divisions.

Responsibilities:

• Proactive member of the UK Tax & Customs team keeping up to date with legislation changes and developments to provide specialist knowledge and guidance throughout the UK entities as a trusted business partner.
• Role model the Rolls-Royce behaviours and leadership expectations. Play a key role in the leadership of the tax team contributing to the development of more junior members of the UK team to ensure succession in the future mentoring and supporting them in their understanding of VAT. Work with the overseas teams as needed.
• Responsible for VAT reporting and compliance primarily in respect of the UK entities within the Group
• Review of Group VAT returns for a variety of jurisdictions as prepared by other members of the Tax team to ensure accuracy.
• Development and delivery of VAT awareness communications and more in-depth specific training as required throughout the business.
• Drive efficiencies and ongoing improvement initiatives.
• Act as primary contact for external auditors queries and manage relationships with external advisers.
• Proactively manage all HMRC related routine queries and more in-depth audit work.
• Support wider projects and initiatives as required by the Head of VAT.
• Continuously improve the Groups risk management and control processes to manage compliance risk ensuring that the Group has robust and effective governance processes and controls in place and is compliant with all relevant laws and regulations.

Why Rolls-Royce

Work with us and well welcome you into a culture of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. We will listen first embrace feedback and act with integrity. We will invest in your continuous learning and development and make sure you have access to a wide breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference.

We offer excellent development a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office home or another remote location. Its a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum were all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons on average three days per week. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

Who were looking for:

Being a part of Rolls-Royce youll know we put safety first do the right thing keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form our behaviours. They are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

This is a leadership role and as such we expect the successful individual to be able to exhibit many of our Leadership Expectations which are:

One Enterprise Mindset One Team

• Lead across the ecosystem setting and communicating clear direction and expectations
• Embrace one Rolls-Royce one team mindset
• Believe in the extraordinary! Be passionate about the success of the business and hungry for success
• Encourage open and respectful debate and inclusion of diverse perspectives

Adaptiveness & Resilience

• Adapt to change and pivot strategies to ensure timely and effective execution in a dynamic environment
• Increase resilience build flexible and agile structure and processes

Holistic Thinking Simplification & Decisiveness

• Connect the dots and see the bigger picture
• Create fit for purpose solutions and reduce complexity
• Make fast and well-informed decisions leveraging world class benchmarks where it matters most

Execution & Business Impact

• Build high trust and mobilize teams through purpose focus and strategic alignment
• Optimize performance and deliver consistent results
• Manage risks and take timely interventions
• Create a systemic rhythm in the organization to enable our strategic progress ambition

Operational Effectiveness

• Prioritize dynamically (applying intensity pace and rigour where it matters the most)
• Build proactive responsive capabilities

Build Talent & Capabilities

• Apply high-performance focus across business and people provide regular feedback and have zero tolerance for mediocrity
• Increase curiosity and learning agility future proof capabilities by upskilling talent through hiring reskilling and talent mobility

In addition for this role we are looking for someone who has:

• Accounting or Tax qualifications with extensive specialist UK VAT experience.
• Good knowledge of SAP including configuration and tax determination logic
• Experience of using Thomson Reuters OneSource Indirect Tax Compliance product is advantageous.
• Excellent Excel and analytical skills are essential as well as significant attention to detail.
• Excellent organisational skills and be able to work multiple tight deadlines concurrently.
• Strong communication skills including ability to explain complex tax issues to non-tax specialists and non-native English speakers.

Join us & help Rolls-Royce to become a high-performing competitive resilient business.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.

The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to be Level C.

This job is advertised at the grades shown and this is the desired operating level for this role.

We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.

We are an equal opportunities employer. Were committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have the more successful well be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy here.

Grade: Level C

Closing Date: 10/10/2025

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