Tax & Audit Manager

Fuse Energy is a forward-thinking renewable energy startup on a mission to deliver a terawatt of renewable energy, fast.

We're looking for a Tax & Audit Manager to join the team. In this role, you will own the financial compliance backbone of a fast-scaling, multi-entity energy group, and the tax structuring that turns that group into a more valuable one.

Responsibilities:

• Tax structuring and value creation: proactively optimise the group's corporate structure, intercompany agreements, financing and entity footprint to minimise tax leakage and maximise after-tax value as we scale and enter new markets.
• Group tax compliance across all entities: corporation tax, VAT/sales tax, R&D and other tax credits, payroll taxes and indirect taxes, owning filings, payments and deadlines across the UK, US and new jurisdictions as we expand.
• Transfer pricing and intercompany arrangements across the multi-entity structure, working with external advisors to keep policy and documentation current.
• The external audit end-to-end: planning, running the auditors, resolving queries and delivering statutory accounts on time across entities.
• All compliance financial reporting: ensuring statutory, regulatory and filing obligations (Companies House, Ofgem, HMRC and US equivalents) are met accurately and on schedule.
• The insurance programme: mapping every operational, asset and corporate risk and procuring/maintaining the right cover (PI, D&O, property, construction/erection, liability) as the business adds new activities.
• Corporate and general admin tied to compliance: new entity incorporation and set-up, company secretarial, registrations and the ad-hoc operational tasks that come with standing up a global group.

Requirements:

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CTA or equivalent) with a strong tax and audit grounding, ideally practice-trained or a mix of practice and in-house.
• Exposure to group structuring, transfer pricing design, M&A tax or financing structures, you can spot where value is leaking and propose the fix, not just keep the documentation current.
• Hands-on experience managing external audits and multi-entity statutory reporting.
• Solid working knowledge of UK tax (corporation tax, VAT, payroll); exposure to US and/or international tax is a strong plus.
• Comfortable owning compliance without hand-holding in a fast, ambiguous environment; you spot what needs doing and do it.
• Highly organised, deadline-driven and detail-obsessed, with the judgement to know what's material.
• First-principles thinker who wants to build clean processes, not just maintain them.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and equity ownership opportunities, you share in what you help build.
• Bi-annual bonus scheme
• Fully expensed tech to match your needs
• Paid annual leave
• Breakfast and dinner allowance for office based employees
• A front-row seat at a fast-growing, well-funded energy company solving a problem that matters, with real ownership and high autonomy from day one alongside an exceptional, first-principles team.