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Centrica • United Kingdom

Tax Manager - International

Employment type:  Full time
8.5

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top 3 scores:
96%

Location flexibility

92%

Hours flexibility

88%

Autonomy

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Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

We are looking for an experienced Tax Manager to lead the management of international taxes and transfer pricing for Centrica. You will act act as the lead tax business partner for overseas activity where there is no local tax support

Location - Windsor / Flexible Home Working

The Role

  • Manage the provision of international tax advice to the Group including on BEPS Pillar 2, profit repatriation and expansion into new territories.
  • Lead transfer pricing across the Group, setting the strategy for optimising intra-group transactions and ensuring compliance with global documentation requirements, including managing the out-sourced preparation.
  • Act as the lead tax business partner for the Business Unit’s overseas activities within the remit of the role, providing tax advice, engaging external advisers and managing the global compliance outsource provider.
  • Support global mobility providing advice to the Reward team and business units on global mobility tax issues.
  • Ensure a robust control framework is established and maintained for all direct taxes outside of the UK, maintaining governance and risk documentation for direct taxes for the operating units.
  • Work with the Tax Manager Transformation and other Centrica teams to deliver continuous process improvement for International Taxes.
  • Assist Tax Directors and Tax Managers in delivering training or other support to ensure the group remains compliant with all direct tax obligations outside of the UK.

The Person

  • Tax qualification and tax work experience in practice or in-house
  • By exception, an accounting qualification and/or relevant tax technical or reporting experience can be considered.
  • Experience and general technical knowledge of international tax, transfer pricing and global reporting requirements.
  • Experience of dealing with European jurisdictions.
  • Ability to research tax technical issues with minimum direction.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills enabling efficient interaction with senior Finance and other stakeholders (internal and external) and effective collaboration within and outside the Tax team
  • Proven ability to take initiative/ownership of the issue and to achieve results under pressure and with imperfect/incomplete information

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary
  • Pension
  • Bonus
  • Flexible working
  • Healthcare
  • Car allowance

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!


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Applications will ONLY be accepted via the ‘Apply’ button.

This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.

Company benefits

Adoption leave
Open to part-time employees
Enhanced sick days
Flexible working week
Enhanced sick pay
Gym membership
Health insurance
Mental health platform access
Compassionate leave
Dental coverage
Fertility treatment leave
Buy or sell annual leave
Optional unpaid leave
Shared parental leave
Enhanced maternity leave
Carer’s leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Cycle to work scheme
Equity packages
Life insurance
Annual pay rises
Share options
Financial coaching
Employee discounts
Volunteer days
Company car
Travel loan
Enhanced pension match/contribution

We asked employees of Centrica what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
96%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
92%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
82%
Employees are very happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
79%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
83%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
88%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
80%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
82%
Employees feel like the company culture is brilliantly inclusive and equitable
Culture
84%
Employees feel like it is a really great environment to work in
Mission
85%
Employees feel very excited about and aligned with the company mission
Salary
72%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Centrica

Company employees

20,000

Gender diversity (male:female)

68:32

Office locations

Windsor, London, Cardiff, Leicester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Dublin, Stockport, Staines, Hampton, Aberdeen, Barrow, Hull

Hiring Countries

Belgium

Denmark

Ireland

Singapore

United Kingdom

Awards & Achievements

2nd – Large companies

2nd – Large companies

Flexa100 2024
3rd – Consumer Goods

3rd – Consumer Goods

Industry awards 2023

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