# Direct Tax Accountant

**Company**: Sainsbury's
**Location**: London, London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive Plus Benefits
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Direct Tax Accountant to join our Tax and Treasury team at Sainsbury's. As a Direct Tax Accountant, you will support the delivery of accurate, timely and well-controlled Corporate Tax compliance and reporting.

Your day-to-day work will include preparing current and deferred tax information for the Annual Report and Accounts, subsidiary statutory accounts, forecasts and budgets. You will maintain reconciliations, records and audit evidence, support transfer pricing documentation and compliance, and help deliver relevant reporting requirements including Corporate Interest Restriction, Country-by-Country Reporting and Pillar Two.

You will also research technical issues, support HMRC and audit enquiries, coordinate data for business change or significant transactions, and improve Corporate Tax processes, controls, documentation, data quality and technology use.

To be successful in this role, you will bring practical knowledge of UK Corporation Tax and tax accounting principles, with demonstrable experience of preparing Corporation Tax computations, returns, payments and supporting documentation. You will understand statutory reporting, current and deferred tax, audit evidence and financial controls, and be able to reconcile detailed data accurately across multiple reporting requirements.

In return for your hard work, we offer a competitive salary, plus benefits including colleague discount, pensions scheme, life cover, performance-related bonus, annual holiday allowance, and access to a range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.

## Skills

### Required
- UK Corporation Tax
- tax accounting
- statutory reporting
- audit evidence
- financial controls

### Nice to have
- ACA
- ACCA
- CTA
- equivalent qualification

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