Overview

 

Join our Indirect Tax team on an 18 month Fixed-Term basis and play a key role in ensuring EDF meets its Tax and VAT compliance obligations with accuracy and transparency, while maintaining a strong relationship with HMRC.

 

 

The Opportunity

 

 

You'll help prepare timely indirect tax returns, provide expert advice on VAT and CCL, and support risk mitigation by ensuring compliance across products, systems, and processes.

 

As part of the Corporate Finance function, you'll collaborate with finance and operational teams to embed tax requirements into key projects. Reporting to the Indirect Tax Manager for Systems & Controls, this role is essential in keeping EDF tax-compliant and efficient.

 

 

Pay, benefits and culture

 

 

Alongside a competitive salary and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.

 

At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

 

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

 

We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

 

 

What you’ll be doing

 

 

Our Indirect Tax Advisors will,

 

  • Provide timely opinions and high-quality research on Indirect Tax processes to support the Indirect Tax Manager in mitigating risk.
  • Assist the Indirect Tax Manager in system upgrade and automation projects, including design, testing, and process improvements post-implementation.
  • Review and collaborate on the accurate and timely submission of financial data in indirect tax returns to the UK tax authority (HMRC).
  • Review VAT accounts and reconciliations monthly and quarterly, ensuring updates and adjustments are made after VAT returns.
  • Identify and report errors or benefits through voluntary disclosure, working with Business Unit finance teams to improve systems and controls, while managing communication with HMRC and stakeholders.
  • Lead process reviews to improve indirect tax reporting, aiming to reduce tax burdens and compliance costs.
  • Collaborate with key business partners to identify risks, enhance controls, and support improvements in the Risk and Control Framework.
  • Serve as a trusted point of contact for EDF Finance, handling ad hoc queries and ensuring their resolution.

 

Who you are

 

  • Part or fully qualified (ATT, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with an interest in expanding tax knowledge or qualifications.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of accounting, the journal process, and double entry.
  • Manage VAT integration in systems, advise on VAT-related projects, and understand when environmental taxes apply.
  • Have a solid understanding of ERP systems and their role in VAT accounting.
  • Show attention to detail and the ability to balance interdependent or competing commercial priorities.
  • Produce clear reports, present findings to management, and proactively update the team on progress.

 

Check out what it's like to work for EDF's Finance Team
 
Closing date for applications: Sunday 10th November
Location: We encourage our teams to work flexibly and where possible work from home. We also recognise the benefits of working in a diverse, collaborative office environment, where our teams can thrive, support each-other and build long-lasting relationships across the wider business.
 

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