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Head of Tax & Reporting
Location – Homebased / Hybrid
Hours – Monday – Friday, 08:30 to 17:00
Benefits Include:
- 25 days holiday plus BH per year
- Life assurance
- Employee discounts via Perkbox
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to a virtual GP and access to a health & wellbeing app
- Training & Development and plenty more
Apleona is a UK provider of integrated facilities management. With a client base that extends across 350 UK operational sites, we employ over 1800 talented people to deliver service solutions that work for our clients. Our culture is fast paced, challenging and above all, friendly and we are looking for you to join us!
Apleona UK is seeking an experienced and commercially astute Head of Tax & Reporting to lead our tax strategy, compliance, and financial reporting across the Northern Europe region. This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for governance, audit oversight, and strategic tax optimisation, working closely with the Group CFO.
The Key responsibilities for the Head of Tax & Reporting will include:
- Lead all direct and indirect tax compliance across multiple UK and European entities
- Drive tax strategy, risk management, and optimisation (including transfer pricing and group relief)
- Oversee statutory accounts, consolidated tax reporting, and submissions to Group HQ
- Manage internal and external audits and relationships with tax authorities and advisors
- Provide technical tax and accounting guidance to regional finance teams
- Lead tax training and compliance programmes across the business
- Monitor legislative changes and advise senior leadership on business impact
- Champion continuous improvement in tax systems, processes, and controls
- Support business projects with tax risk assessments and compliance reviews
Our Ideal candidate will need to have:
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Extensive experience in senior tax leadership within a complex, multi entity environment
- Expert knowledge of UK tax, IFRS, UK GAAP, and cross border taxation
- Proven experience in tax compliance, audit management, and strategic tax planning
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience delivering tax training and developing high performing finance teams
- Background in facilities management, engineering, or a related service led sector would be desirable
- Experience with finance systems implementation and transformation
We’ll make sure that you have everything you need to do a great job. You will already have experience gained in a similar role. You will work 37.5 hours per week but will need to be flexible to ensure service delivery at the highest level. You will have access to Apleona employee benefits that will be available to you as soon as you start.
Apleona is an equal opportunities employer who deliver facilities management services to clients all over the UK and with vacancies in your area this is a great time to join our teams.
If this sounds like a job for you then click on the apply button and we’ll start the process and if you’re a good match we’ll be in touch to discuss the next steps.