Head Of Tax - Excise And Customs

About the role

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join as a Head of Tax - Excise & Customs duties subject matter expert for the Tesco Group. Overseeing efficient, accurate and compliant Excise and Customs duty processes, you will identify and support delivery of Customs facilitation measures and opportunities which deliver profit and working capital benefits for the business.

You will be responsible for

• Leading and developing a high performing team, giving them the opportunities to be their best and fulfill their potential at Tesco.
• Leading, identifying and developing efficient and accurate Excise & Customs compliant processes within the Tesco Group
• Identifying tax saving opportunities for the business both from technical understanding and by keeping up to date with Excise and Customs duty legislation
• Co-ordinating cross-functional and international business units to mitigate the Group's Excise & Customs duty bill
• Ensuring the team partner with the business to providing timely and relevant advice on Excise and Customs matters relevant to business developments. Managing priorities, ensuring that our processes are evolving to meet business needs
• Building and developing relationships with Government bodies in order to develop channels for resolving and identifying solutions to Excise and Customs duty related issues
• Forecasting and managing my budgets effectively, always being cost conscious

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You will need

• Extensive Excise and Customs knowledge
• Ability to translate complex Tax legislation into easily understood requirements
• Numerical & Analytical skills
• Management of Excise & Customs taxes within a large retail or similar environment
• Working within or with Government bodies

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
• Car allowance of £7,320 per annum
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues