Group Tax Director

Group Tax Director

Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!

Our core value of Love Work, Love Life, Be You' has been central to our success and so we're looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow.

We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026.

What are we all about?

At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profit's to Construction, and many more.

We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more.

About you:

Over 30 bolt on acquisitions in recent years have helped to fuel the rapid expansion of The Access Group, both in the UK and overseas. It is against this backdrop of local and global expansion that we are seeking an experienced and pragmatic Group Tax Director, ideally with experience in setting up a Tax function.

As the inaugural Group Tax Director, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the tax strategy for our multinational organisation. Reporting directly to CFO, you will be responsible for overseeing all tax related functions, ensuring compliance, and optimising tax efficiency in alignment with our business objectives.

Day-to-day, you will:

Tax strategy and operations

●Articulate and implement the Tax function vision, ensuring strong engagement from team members (currently 4 FTEs) through fostering effective relationships, creating a collaborative and results driven culture.

●Identify opportunities to continually improve tax operations and development of the team, investing in their professional growth.

●Develop and implement the global tax strategy, aligning to the company's business strategy and objectives.

●Develop and implement a tax governance and risk management approach to enable a robust tax control environment.

●Continuously review and take action to improve operational effectiveness and consistency through process, technology and / or people capability development.

●Monitor and provide periodic reporting of tax performance to the Executive and Senior Management.

Your skills and experiences might also include:

Business partnering

●Actively increase the visibility and engagement of the wider business with Tax on all tax matters.

●Build relationships and collaborate with key internal stakeholders so that tax considerations are integrated into transactions, broader organisational strategy and change.

●Educate and provide updates to key internal stakeholders of tax legislative and regulatory changes that may impact transactions and business strategy.

●Provide UK specific tax guidance in relation to M&A and other advisory projects.

●Work closely with private equity partners to align tax strategies with broader financial and strategic goals.

Compliance and advisory

●Be responsible for reviewing and ensuring that all statutory obligations and reporting requirements for tax purposes are submitted accurately and on time to relevant tax authorities.

●Be responsible for the tax provisioning and statutory reporting processes globally.

●Annual review of tax processes and controls to meet the Senior Accounting Officer (SAO) requirements and associated UK tax strategy requirements.

●Be responsible and provide tax support for M&A activity and processes.

●Develop and implement transfer pricing strategy and compliance. Ensure that the Group Transfer Pricing policy is embedded globally across the business, ensuring compliance with policies set.

●Assess and identify how new and emerging tax regulations (e.g. Pillar Two) will impact the organisation and develop the appropriate actions to address and meet the new requirements.

Requirements, skills and qualifications

●A qualified Chartered Accountant (ACCA, ACA, CPA) or Chartered Tax Advisor.

●10+ years of experience in tax, particularly in M&A and international tax.

●Strong communicator with the confidence to liaise with stakeholders at all levels.

●Adaptable and agile in an unstructured and fluid environment.

●Motivated to provide the highest standard of delivery and demanding the same of others.

●Critically review and interpret information and recommend a course of action.

●Work effectively within a team and with external parties on dynamic projects and be able to respond to changes quickly and effectively.

●Proven leadership skills in leading and developing a high-performing Tax team.

What does Access offer you?

We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.

On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you're with us), and a matched pension scheme you'll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you'll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you.

At Access we're all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't match perfectly, we'd still love to hear from you. You might just be whom we are looking for.

We love the fact that we're all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, it's just more fun!

What's holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family!

Love Work. Love Life. Be You.