Senior Tax Manager - Direct tax, EMEA

About us 

Dyson is growing and our ambition is huge – more categories, more locations and more people. Pioneering technology takes more than just inventive engineers. At Dyson, we take a problem-solving approach to everything we do. Our Finance team manages and balances complex budgets across our global business.

The Group Tax function is focused on supporting all areas of the business with growth plans and day-to-day operations, along with meeting our tax compliance obligations.

About the role 

We are looking for an experienced individual to manage the direct tax matters for the EMEA region. As Senior Tax Manager - Direct tax, EMEA, you will be responsible for overseeing the direct tax compliance for the region and providing tax advice and support to the business. This includes:

• Manage and oversee direct tax compliance across multiple EMEA entities and territories, including corporate income tax, withholding tax, transfer pricing, ensuring accurate and timely filings. Review and approve returns and related forms prepared by external advisors and prepare selected filings in-house where required.
• Manage a small team to oversee the analysis of financial data prepared by accounting shared service team to ensure complete and accurate information for onward provision to external advisors who will prepare the necessary filings.
• Ensuring the review and approval of all filings prepared by external advisors, prior to its submission to governmental authorities.
• Manage external tax advisors and global service providers, ensuring timely delivery, appropriate technical quality and effective coordination of tax compliance, reporting and other tax matters.
• Oversee tax payments and cash tax forecasting, ensuring corporate tax and withholding tax payments are accurately assessed and made by the required deadlines, and providing tax payment forecasts to Treasury.
• Support tax accounting and statutory reporting, working with the global outsourcer to prepare tax provisions for group and local statutory accounts and reviewing statutory accounts to ensure appropriate tax disclosures.
• Monitor financing and profit repatriation arrangements from a tax perspective, including intercompany loans, thin capitalisation and interest limitation requirements, withholding tax on interest and dividend distributions, and obtaining treaty clearances or other supporting documentation where required.
• Manage tax authority enquiries, audits and other external stakeholder requests relating to corporate tax and withholding tax, working with local entities and advisors to ensure matters are handled effectively and in accordance with Group policies.
• Ownership and approval of all corporate tax balance sheet reconciliations and other compliance oversight controls.
• Provide direct tax advice on business initiatives and projects, ensuring appropriate tax treatment and implementation, supporting systems and process changes, and identifying potential tax risks at an early stage.
• Partner with stakeholders across the business, including Finance, Treasury, Customs, Group Tax and other functions, to ensure direct tax implications are considered holistically and incorporated into business processes and decisions.

About you

• Educated to degree level or equivalent, with an accounting and/or tax qualification.
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant working experience and prior people management experience will be value added.
• Proven record of managing large compliance programmes across multiple jurisdictions.
• Ability to partner with and to hold to account external advisors.
• Strong technical and operational direct tax experience gained in-house or a combination of in-house and in-practice.
• An excellent verbal and written communicator.
• Proven ability to build relationships across the business, lead people and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, complex, ever-changing environment.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.