# Group Head of Tax

**Company**: Biffa Waste Services
**Location**: High Wycombe, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance

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## Description

This is an exciting opportunity to take strategic ownership of all tax matters across the Biffa Group, with a particular focus on corporation tax, landfill tax and VAT.

You will play a key role in shaping and delivering the Group's tax strategy, identifying opportunities to optimise its tax position and ensuring robust tax governance and compliance.

Key Responsibilities:

- Act as the primary point of contact for HMRC on all tax matters, including any submissions, information requests and voluntary disclosures that may arise.

- Complete the tax computations for the Group Annual Report and subsidiary statutory accounts.

- Forecast corporation tax charges and cash payments for the Group’s annual Budget and Five Year Plan processes, with efficient utilisation of capital allowances and carried forward losses.

- Develop a detailed understanding of landfill tax and support the Landfill Operations, Legal and Internal Audit teams to drive best practice, monitor adherence and design new controls if necessary.

- For any acquisitions, investigate areas highlighted by the due diligence process and ensure a smooth transition.

- Lead the annual RDEC process.

- Monitor all manual processes and stress test assumptions made within the ERP system to assess robustness and compliance.

- Stay up to date with changes in tax legislation to ensure that any potential cash tax advantages for the company are thoroughly assessed and implemented if deemed in-line with company policy.

Essential Criteria:

- Degree and/or CTA/ATT/ACA Qualification.

- Confident communicating with both internal and external senior stakeholders (Board, ESA, etc.)

- Experience working in either an in-house tax team, a professional services firm or HMRC.

- Up to date with latest legislation affecting corporation tax and VAT.

- An excellent communicator who gives the business confidence in their decisions and builds business relationships.

## Skills

### Required
- tax legislation
- corporation tax
- landfill tax
- VAT
- RDEC

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