Head of Tax & Treasury - Argos
Hdhe Cx · London, United Kingdom
About the team
Our Finance division helps Argos make well-informed decisions, protect value and operate with confidence in a complex tax and treasury environment. The Tax and Treasury team brings together specialists across Corporate Tax, VAT and Indirect Taxes, Customs, Employment Taxes and Treasury, working closely with senior leaders and teams across the business. This is an opportunity to lead a function with broad commercial reach and a direct impact on governance, risk, cash and strategic decision-making.
More about the role
As Head of Tax and Treasury, you will be accountable for the company’s tax and treasury affairs and will personally lead Corporate Tax. Reporting to the Argos CFO, you will set and implement the Group’s Tax and Treasury strategy, policies, governance and risk framework, while leading a team of specialist managers and tax professionals.
Day to day, you will oversee accurate and timely compliance, tax accounting, external reporting and treasury activity. You will advise on business initiatives, financing decisions and significant corporate transactions; lead relationships with HMRC, auditors and external advisers; and provide clear reporting on tax risk, disputes, cash tax and the effective tax rate. You will also drive improvements in processes, controls, data and automation, while ensuring the function has the capability and resilience to respond to regulatory and business change.
More about you
You will bring proven UK tax expertise, with the technical depth to lead Corporate Tax matters and the breadth to provide effective oversight across VAT and Indirect Taxes, Customs and Employment Taxes. You will be comfortable applying tax accounting and financial reporting requirements, assessing risk and translating complex technical matters into clear commercial choices for senior stakeholders and governance forums.
You will be an inclusive and accountable leader who develops specialist capability, sets clear priorities and supports effective decision-making. Demonstrable professional judgement, integrity and constructive challenge will be important, alongside a pragmatic approach to delivery. You will be able to build credible relationships with HMRC, advisers and auditors, and use data, systems and process improvement to strengthen controls and make the function more effective.
Essential criteria
- A relevant professional qualification, such as Chartered Tax Adviser or a recognised accountancy qualification.
- Proven experience of personally leading UK Corporate Tax, including compliance, tax accounting and financial reporting in a large or complex organisation.
- Demonstrable experience of leading a tax function or significant tax team, including prioritisation, resource planning, coaching and capability development.
- Evidence of providing tax advice and governance reporting to senior stakeholders, Boards or governance committees, including explaining complex matters clearly and concisely.
- Practical experience of managing relationships with HMRC, external advisers and auditors, together with working knowledge of Treasury management and associated controls.
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 65% of salary, depending on how we perform (in cash and shares).
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. You'll also receive a company car cash allowance unless you are going to travel 10,000 business miles in your role, then you'll be able to choose a car. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).