Group Tax Process Improvement Lead

Job title: Tax Process Improvement Lead

Location: Windsor/Hybrid

Duration: until the end of the year

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The role:

The Process Improvement Lead will play a key role in transforming and streamlining tax-related processes across the organisation. This role is responsible for identifying inefficiencies, analysing end-to-end workflows, and driving automation and digitisation initiatives in collaboration with internal teams. By applying business analysis skills and process improvement methodologies, the Process Improvement Lead will help deliver greater efficiency, accuracy, and scalability within the tax function.

Responsibilities:

• Identify inefficiencies and opportunities for automation.
• Collaborate with finance and tech teams to implement improvements.
• Support documentation, training, and communication of new processes.
• Contribute to a broader shift toward a process-driven operating model.
• Ensure tax risk mitigation and efficiency requirements are identified, understood, tested and implemented, where possible within the agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality
• Planning and delivery of associated business change - this includes preparing good quality process documentation ("as-is" and "to-be") and creating and/or updating policy and procedure documentation
• Ensure tax systems (comprising Tax owned systems and systems owned by other areas which Tax uses) operate effectively and efficiently and continue to meet business needs
• Ensure that tax risks and controls continue to be identified, monitored and managed
• Monitor the status of tax returns and payments, ensuring emerging issues and potential delays are highlighted and action taken

Requirements:

• Experience in the process improvement - through diagnosis, design, planning, development, testing and delivery
• Experience of business/process analysis and automating/optimising existing processes
• Familiar with working in a project environment
• Ideally exposure to and a good understanding of tax systems and operations
• Understanding of risk and control methodologies and experience of risk and control governance, management and reporting
• Able to plan and multi-task, managing several activities in parallel
• Experience of working in a complex Matrix organisation

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.