VAT Manager

Trainline and Finance

The role

Role responsibilities

• Own the UK VAT compliance cycle, including preparation, filing, payment, review, and Making Tax Digital submissions.
• Manage EU VAT compliance with third-party advisers and ensure timely, accurate filings.
• Review and improve the UK VAT process.
• Monitor VAT legislation and communicate risks, opportunities, and guidance.
• Advise on VAT for product launches, commercial arrangements, and business model changes.
• Communicate indirect tax matters to non-tax stakeholders.
• Improve tax-function automation, documentation, and knowledge-sharing.

Experience and skills

• Practical VAT expertise and hands-on multi-jurisdiction compliance experience, with strong knowledge of UK and EU VAT rules.
• ACA, CTA, ACCA, or equivalent professional qualification and meaningful tax-focused experience.
• Analytical ability, confidence working with data and return workings, and solid Excel capability.
• Excellent communication skills and a proactive, autonomous approach to improvement.
• D365, Tableau, or GVRT experience is helpful; exposure to corporation tax, transfer pricing, or employment tax is advantageous.

Workplace

• Trainline operates a hybrid model and asks employees to work from the office at least 60% of their time over a 12-week period.
• The supplied description is truncated after mentioning a 28-day work-from-abroad policy.

Benefits and development

• Benefits include private healthcare and dental insurance, a work-from-abroad policy, share purchase plans, an EV scheme, extra festive time off, and family-friendly benefits.
• Trainline offers career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days.