Description

The Senior Manager will lead the organisation’s VAT risk governance across multi-jurisdictional operations. This hands-on leadership role combines deep technical VAT expertise with proven experience in designing, embedding, and continuously improving VAT risk frameworks and assurance programmes.

The role ensures operational practices are robust, scalable, and fully aligned with regulatory obligations, while providing actionable insights to senior leadership and proactively mitigating VAT exposure.

The Senior Manager will work closely with tax colleagues, business operations, internal audit, and risk monitoring teams to embed controls into business processes, challenge operational readiness, and influence decision-making across the organization.

Key job responsibilities
• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of VAT risk and assurance frameworks, control methodologies, and operational procedures.
• Oversee assurance activities, guiding analysts in data collection, testing, evaluation of control effectiveness, and review of VAT requirements developed by VAT advisory teams.
• Critically review VAT requirements from VAT advisory teams to identify gaps, weaknesses, or conflicts prior to operational rollout.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration with business, operational, risk management, and VAT teams to embed robust controls into daily operations, implement process improvements, and ensure alignment with organisational objectives.
• Challenge operational readiness for new controls and processes, reviewing UAT outcomes, SOPs, and minimum standards before launch.
• Report to senior leadership on VAT risk exposure, assurance findings, and remediation progress with clear, actionable recommendations.
• Maintain a dynamic and adaptive VAT assurance programme, evolving with regulatory changes, business growth, and operational complexity.
• Support the integration of VAT risk considerations into regulatory changes, strategic initiatives, and operational transformations.