About The Role
What if your ability to navigate complex tax regulations could unlock thousands of pounds in savings while ensuring full compliance for one of the UK’s biggest charities? As a Financial Accountant at Alzheimer’s Society, you'll play a vital role in ensuring financial integrity and compliance as we work to end the devastation caused by dementia.
About the opportunity
As a Financial Accountant within our Finance & Assurance directorate, you'll be part of a team that's transforming how we deliver financial partnership across the organisation. We're on an ambitious journey to become the Society's single point of financial truth. We aim to be trusted partners and credible experts who enable the organisation to make faster, better-informed decisions.
This is a highly technical, hands-on role where VAT expertise is your primary focus. You'll prepare and review accurate VAT returns, manage partial exemption calculations, and ensure we optimise our VAT position while maintaining full compliance. Beyond VAT, you'll oversee Corporation Tax, Gift Aid claims, and other statutory tax obligations, acting as the go-to technical expert who ensures we meet every requirement on time and in full.
Your deep knowledge of tax regulations, combined with your ability to explain complex matters clearly, will help colleagues across the Society understand their tax obligations and make tax-efficient decisions. Working in partnership with colleagues across Finance and the wider organisation, you'll build relationships with HMRC and other regulatory bodies and proactively identify opportunities to strengthen our tax processes and optimise our position within the rules.
About you:
You're a qualified accountant with expertise in VAT compliance, particularly partial exemption, and broader knowledge of Corporation Tax, Gift Aid, and other statutory obligations. You understand that effective tax work optimises our position within regulations while helping colleagues make informed, tax-efficient decisions. You're comfortable managing complex VAT scenarios and thrive in a hands-on role where technical precision matters.
You'll have:
1. A CCAB qualification achieved through education, or demonstrable equivalent knowledge and experience that evidences your understanding of the role's requirements.
2. Proven experience preparing VAT returns and managing partial exemption calculations, with confidence navigating complex VAT scenarios.
3. Strong working knowledge of UK tax regulations including VAT, Gift Aid, Corporation Tax, and other relevant statutory obligations.
4. Experience working with HMRC and managing tax enquiries, demonstrating credibility and professionalism in regulatory relationships.
5. Demonstrated experience as a Financial Accountant in a large or complex organisation.
6. The ability to work effectively across departments and at all levels of the organisation. Translating complex tax matters into practical guidance that helps colleagues make informed decisions.
7. Experience with cloud-based ERP systems (we use Unit4).
8. A commitment to continuous improvement, bringing best practice and proactive thinking to tax compliance delivery.
What you'll focus on:
9. Overseeing VAT compliance - preparing and reviewing accurate VAT returns, managing partial exemption calculations, and ensuring we optimise our VAT position while maintaining full compliance.
10. Overseeing Corporation Tax and Gift Aid compliance as well as other statutory tax obligations, proactively support the wider Society to optimise our tax position.
11. Building and maintaining strong relationships with HMRC, managing enquiries or audits with professionalism.
12. Providing clear tax guidance across the Society, helping colleagues understand tax implications and empowering them to make tax-efficient decisions within regulations.
13. Working seamlessly with colleagues across the Finance team to provide integrated, end-to-end financial partnership across the Society.
14. Driving continuous improvement in tax compliance quality and efficiency, while role-modelling our values and fostering a culture of learning and accountability.
Can you see yourself as the tax expert who ensures Alzheimer's Society optimises every opportunity within regulations while maintaining full compliance? Are you ready to make tax something colleagues engage with confidently rather than avoid? Can you bring both technical precision and clear guidance to ensure our tax position protects our resources and enables our mission to end the devastation of dementia?
Important Dates
Deadline for applications: Wednesday 7th January
Invites sent by: Monday 12th January
There will be two interview stages taking place virtually, starting from week commencing 12th January
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