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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
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
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About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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