Finance Assistant (Indirect Tax)

Mimeo is an innovator of online managed content distribution and printing. Our global footprint and cloud-based platform provides customers with the simplest way to create, manage, and distribute content and materials they rely on to do business, and also for tens of thousands global customers a year who want the best quality photo-books, personalised calendars and wall art.

We are a mid-size company with a strong team ethic and a lot of ambition.

Benefits include a competitive salary, workplace pension, life assurance, our learning & development programme and progressive career opportunities, childcare subsidy, discounted gym membership, flexible working hours.

Job Description

Role purpose

Mimeo produces and sells printed material in a global market. The products are ordered online and delivered worldwide by our US, UK, and German companies through a network of Print Service Providers. This requires us to file Indirect Tax (mainly VAT) Returns in many countries.

The role oversees the Indirect Tax reporting for a number of countries outside North America and ensures that the third party we use to file our VAT and GST Returns gets the correct information on time to enable them to submit Indirect Tax Returns on behalf of Mimeo

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for producing and managing Indirect Tax reports for Mimeo and forwarding the checked data to our third party provider for them to compile the necessary VAT/GST Returns; to be their first point-of contact.
• Monitor and ensure any Indirect Tax payments are made on time. (This includes any import and deferred VAT)
• Be the liaison point for the business on VAT/Indirect Tax reporting ; build expertise in our Vertex tax billing system and update our financial systems AX as and when required.
• Ensuring the VAT accounts on the balance sheet are reconciled.
• Ensuring the company's sales invoices are tax compliant.

Required skills and Qualifications

• Awareness of Indirect Tax (VAT/GST) processes — some experience would be very much preferred
• Awareness of Customs practices and VAT accounting an advantage
• Experience from working for a multi-national company an advantage
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• To a good working standard on Excel; experience running reports from order-management software an advantage

This would ideally suit somebody wanting to work part time - 15 hour a week