Group Tax Manager - #2191374

Most tax careers are spent advising on decisions someone else makes.

You write the advice. You send it. And then, mostly, you never find out what happened next.

This role sits on the other side of that email.

Exemplar Health Care has never had its own tax person. Up to now, tax has been split between a busy finance team and external advisers who are good, but who only see what they’re shown.

They want someone who sees everything.

About Exemplar

Exemplar Health Care supports adults living with complex needs, across more than 60 care homes in England, with over 5,000 colleagues.

It’s growing and multi entity, with a sizeable property base. So the tax isn’t just returns.

The role is based at their Support Centre in Sheffield, reporting to the Deputy CFO.

What the job actually is

You’ll own corporation tax from start to finish. Computations, returns, payments, cash tax forecasts, and the tax numbers in the statutory accounts.

You’ll keep the group’s tax calendar, so nothing goes in late and nobody gets a surprise letter.

You’ll look after employment taxes, VAT and the relationship with HMRC. And you’ll be the person people call before they do something, rather than after.

Property, capital projects, deals, restructures. The earlier tax is in the room, the cheaper everything else tends to be.

You’ll still use advisers. The difference is you’ll decide when they’re worth paying for.

Who this is for

People in practice who are tired of being one step removed from the outcome.

Or people already in house who’ve inherited a function and fancy building one.

You’ll be ACA, ACCA or CTA qualified, with solid UK corporation tax experience and a good grasp of current and deferred tax and accounts disclosures.

Most of all, you can explain tax to people who have no interest in tax, and get them to do the right thing anyway. That’s harder than the technical part, and rarer.