General information

Job Title
Tax Manager
Ref #
9264
Location
Edinburgh - 2 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9FQ
Department
IMS - Finance Leadership
Business Area
Finance
Working time
Full-Time
Date Published
14-05-2025

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary - Salary is £50k+ (dependent on experience) + annual bonus & benefits
Work Level - 2
Location – Edinburgh, Permanent
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh office, 2 days per week for this position.
Closing Date - Applications close 28/05/2025

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

We’re looking for a Tax Reporting Manager to join our Insurance and Money Services team.

You’ll have exposure across the Finance function in this role, providing confidence in the integrity of all tax reporting outputs. You will be responsible for delivering accurate tax accounting and reporting in accordance with HMRC guidance and legislation, within an appropriately controlled reporting environment.

This role will best suit someone who can demonstrate a track record of taking ownership for key reporting outputs, an ability to interpret complex requirements, and has a real desire to learn and become a go to person within the business.

Key stakeholders will include the Senior Technical Reporting Manager, Head of Financial Control, Product and Cost Finance teams, Tesco Group and external auditors.


What you’ll be doing

  • Preparing monthly corporation tax and VAT journals
  • Assisting with the completion of year end corporation tax returns
  • Helping to prepare year-end tax reporting for the IMS business, working alongside the Group Tax team
  • Support with the preparation and submission of quarterly VAT returns
  • Supporting all areas of Finance in appropriate tax accounting for and areas of change undertaken by the IMS business
  • Supporting the FC Reporting team across other areas of statutory, group and regulatory reporting as required
  • Building strong relationships with key stakeholders, primarily other FC teams, Risk, Commercial Finance, Group Tax, Legal
  • Proactively identifying and managing the risks within tax reporting, ensuring they are within the IMS business risk appetite tolerance and policies are complied with

We need you to have
  • Professional accountancy or tax qualification
  • Audit Experience an advantage
  • Pro-active attitude and a desire to learn
  • Ability to build relationships across a Finance function
  • And if you have any of these, even better
  • Experience in tax reporting
  • Understanding of relevant HMRC regulation
  • Experience in Insurance or Financial Services.
  • Demonstrable experience of being able to quickly hit the ground running

We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.


What’s in it for you

  • Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
  • Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
  • Performance related annual bonus.
  • Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
  • Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
  • Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.


Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centres are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!
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