Aviva are currently looking for a Corporate Tax Manager to join our Group Tax team on a 12 month Contract. This is an excellent opportunity for someone that is newly qualified and / or has prior experience of working in a tax environment.

You will be working as part of the corporate tax compliance team, principally dealing with tax return preparation, group reporting work, advising on transactions, and preparing tax for forecasting purposes.

This position falls under Aviva’s “Smart working” scheme, and involves time working both from home and in the office when required.  

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage your own workload which will include a range of items of varying size and complexity and short-term and longer-term deadlines, monitor progress against plan and reprioritise as required.

• Identify the best practices and changes that can be made in the tax return and accounts tax process to maximise efficiency.

• Prepare accurate and timely tax reporting, forecasting, compliance and advisory deliverables in line with the Group Tax Standard.

• Provide support and advice on tax matters and developments impacting the business, particularly ensuring tax risk is understood and managed.

• Ensuring tax efficiency for entities in scope, in the context of group considerations.

• Management of tax input / requirements for quarterly, half-yearly and annual group reporting cycles, as well as future forecasts.

• Management and completion of tax provisions and disclosures for IFRS and Solvency II financial statements.

• Management of all aspects of the corporation tax compliance process, including tax review of expenses and CTSA payments as required, ensuring all internal and statutory deadlines are met.

• Supporting the tax compliance, reporting and advisory deliverables of Group Tax as required. 

Skills & Experience required

• Strong knowledge of UK corporate tax legislation and HMRC practice

• Knowledge of IFRS accounting (including consolidated accounts) and Solvency II reporting

• Ability to understand impacts of new corporate tax developments

• Ability to identify, interpret and clearly communicate key tax risk issues to non-specialists

• Prior experience of working in a Tax Environment (Not essential but preferred)

• Accounting and / or tax qualification (ACA, ACCA, ACMA, CIOT)

What will you get for this role?

• Salary of £35,000 -£45,000 depending 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 ownership, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too, 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. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email 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 Dylan Wood a call on 07385 426164 or send an email to Dylan.wood@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.