Senior Product Tax Manager

As part of the Tax team, which provides expert tax services to the UK companies within the Group and to Aviva Investors (as manager of a range of regulated and unregulated funds), the role involves working with colleagues across five locations. 

The tax team as a whole covers a wide scope including Customer and Product taxes, Operational and Transaction Taxes, Insurance Premium Taxes, Corporation Tax, Life Tax, VAT and Employment Taxes. 

This role will primarily be focussed on providing operational tax advice and support relating to tax matters attached to customers from Aviva products, but may include work involving other taxes as experience permits, in order to ensure the most efficient use of resource across the wider team. 

Role purpose:

The role supports the BUs with understanding and articulating the key tax issues arising from customer products, with significant focus on chargeable events, bonds, life assurance and pensions products.  The role includes providing advice to internal teams and leading on chargeable events matters with HMRC and reviewing customer literature.

The day-to-day responsibilities of the role will include:

• Strong knowledge of chargeable events legislation and guidance

• Strong communication and collaboration skills (the role will require liaison both internally and externally, with Aviva’s 3rd party partners and HMRC)

• A good technical knowledge of life products, including bonds, pensions and endowment type policies.

• Strong communication skills as dealing with lots of different teams internally

• Liaising with colleagues across the business to ensure appropriate prioritisation

• Ensuring accurate and appropriate customer and product tax documentation is in place across the business

• Support on chargeable events reporting and any corresponding HMRC controversy

• Ongoing consideration of process improvements

The Person:

• The successful candidate will be either an accountant, qualified tax professional or otherwise comparably qualified by experience (gained either in industry or in practice)

• You will be able to demonstrate strong customer and product tax knowledge and experience, with an ability to readily evaluate and effectively communicate the impact of new developments

• You will be a team player with an open, collaborative and proactive approach, willing to test new ideas and embrace change, looking for opportunities to identify and address key issues and simplify existing processes

• Strong capabilities in MS Office applications are essential, as is good experience of creating and editing documents

What will you get for this role?

• Salary circa £60,000 dependant on skills, experience and qualifications

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take responsibility, and who make good decisions!

The way we do this is important too. We always ‘Care More’. It’s our thing. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you!

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Just send us an email once you’ve applied stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Guv a call on 0750 008 7919 or send an email to Guv.Johal@aviva.com

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.