Assistant Tax Manager

About this opportunity

Join us as an Assistant Tax Manager at Lloyds Banking Group in Edinburgh and you’ll join a team of Tax Specialists, responsible for handling the Corporate Tax compliance and reporting for the Group as a whole.

Working within the Corporate Tax Compliance Team, you’ll provide informative, high quality sophisticated output, advice and mentorship tailored to senior partner needs.

Day to day you’ll be:

• Helping us prepare corporate tax returns for group entities ensuring compliance with appropriate risk management principles.

• Interpreting complex processes and lead the efficient and effective production of high-quality output and analysis, anticipating your customers' needs.

• Providing a professional level of support and assistance to Senior Tax Managers and/or the business, using judgement as to when more sophisticated queries require escalating.

• Delivering small-scale projects or well-defined tasks on larger projects to improve support to the business.

• Monitoring and supporting a range of Tax processes and systems to ensure they are effectively maintained and coordinated, recommending improvements.

• Establishing and building internal relationships to identify business requirements and provide appropriate support and guidance.

• Collaborating with the finance team to ensure accurate financial reporting and tax accounting. for individual entities and for group reporting purposes.

• Providing a proactive comprehensive advisory service to ensure that the business is aware of the risks of non-compliance.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need

• You’ll be experienced in UK corporate tax compliance and accounting (specifically IAS12), whilst demonstrating a sound understanding of Legislation and applicable case law.

• A professional qualification (either accountancy or tax specific such as ATT/CTA) and strong knowledge of UK Corporation Tax are requirements for the role.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills.

• You'll be a natural when it comes to relationship management skills, with a proven ability to analyse, challenge and influence.

• You'll be curious about learning how to use technology solutions to provide efficiencies in the team.

• You’ll be proactive and able to work independently as well as part of a team.

• This is a Compliance and Reporting role, and you should have experience in preparing corporation tax returns and tax accounting.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.