VAT MANAGER

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📍 Location: Madrid

Are you passionate about indirect taxes and looking to work in a dynamic, international environment? Join our team as a VAT Specialist for our UK and EMEA regions!

📌 Your key responsibilities will include:

• Acting as the main point of contact for all indirect tax-related matters across UK & EMEA, escalating issues when necessary.
• Supporting internal stakeholders by clearly and effectively communicating VAT risks to non-tax colleagues.
• Assisting with VAT audits and tax authority inquiries across the UK and EMEA, including direct communication with tax officers and coordination with external advisors.
• Building and maintaining relationships with global colleagues, including commercial, legal, finance, and operations teams.
• Delivering VAT training sessions to the business and providing basic VAT guidance to Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable teams in the UK and overseas shared service centers.
• Advising on the correct VAT treatment of intercompany transactions.
• Partnering with in-house finance technology and transformation teams on VAT improvement initiatives.
• Providing insight and data for the VAT reconciliation process.
• Managing the CIS process – reviewing data, preparing returns, and submitting them to HMRC.
• Monitoring the compliance calendar and ensuring timely filing of returns in collaboration with external advisors UK and EMEA controllership.
• Identifying reporting and process errors, implementing corrective actions and improvements.
• Maintaining accurate records of VAT registrations.
• Assisting with payments and refunds, including approvals and proper allocation to the correct entities and reporting periods.
• Maintaining and updating VAT codes across systems (e.g., WDY, YARDI), requesting and testing changes, and issuing communications to the business regarding updates.

✅ What we're looking for:

• Solid experience in UK - indirect tax (VAT), ideally in an international context (EMEA exposure is a plus)
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex tax matters to non-experts.
• Strong autonomy and a collaborative approach to working with global teams.
• Experience in handling tax authority interactions and audits.
• Practical knowledge of financial systems and ERP platforms (e.g., YARDI or similar).