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At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world’s leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. With a sixty-year history, and fourteen Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.
We are excited to be looking for a Head of Tax working in our Group Head office at Tubney Woods, Oxfordshire. This is a newly created role that will offer an exciting and stimulating opportunity for anyone interested in a mix of both operational and strategic work in a growing business.
You will be working closely with the group finance team, specifically the Group Financial Controller and CFO.
Some of the key areas will be:
- Determination and delivery of the Group’s tax strategy, including tax structuring and tax planning around major transactions where appropriate.
- Oversight and management of control frameworks for all forms of taxation, including corporation tax, VAT, PAYE and employer’s NIC (and overseas equivalents).
- Primary point of contact between the Group and Tax Authorities.
- Monitor and supervise compliance activities, filings, payments, etc.
- Liaise with Group Financial Controller for appropriate tax accounting.
- Assist in analysing Tax implications of M&A activity
- Support and integrate any new finance function following acquisition of new businesses
- Liaise with financial decision support managers in the other OI businesses and at Group to gain the benefits of best practices
- Lead, develop and manage the Group’s Tax team in the UK and overseas.
- Maintain professional awareness of legislation and the regulatory requirements applying to the business
This role would suit a fully qualified candidate within ACA, CIMA or CTA.
At Oxford Instruments we are proud of the environment that we have created. We hope that in joining us you will find out why people stay so long with our business and have such a large part in our globally growing success story.
This role is a hybrid role with the main location being Tubney Woods. We work 8.00 until 4.30 Monday to Thursday and finish at 1.00 on a Friday so you can start your weekend early. We typically work three days per week in the office so it is important that you are able to get to our Oxfordshire location.
Additional Benefits….
- 25 days of annual leave, with bank holidays on top
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Employee assistance and wellbeing programme
- Sick pay
- Share incentive plan
- Cycle to Work scheme
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.
Note to recruitment agencies: Oxford Instruments operates a Preferred Supplier List, and we do not accept unsolicited agency CVs. Please do not forward candidate details in response to this advert, or to any Oxford Instruments employees or other company locations. Oxford Instruments is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs.