VAT Consultant

Job description

Are you a VAT Consultant interested in working for a rapidly growing management consultancy?

We are market leaders in corporate service delivery with around 40% of the NHS using one or more of our products. With unrivalled knowledge and experience, we provide high-quality, value-for-money finance, procurement, and employment services to the NHS, helping them overcome any challenges they face in the back office.

We work closely with NHS organisations all over the country to replace outdated, time-consuming, and error-prone processes, with affordable digital systems and more efficient ways of working, and in addition to our core services, we are designing and developing innovative digital technologies and piloting brand-new ways of working, which further improve efficiency and quality, and better support the NHS workforce to deliver world-class patient care.

We are passionate about using our expertise to save the NHS time and money and are more relevant today than ever before.

We have a new VAT Consultant role within our NHS SBS VAT Consultancy team for someone with an extensive background in NHS or Public Sector UK VAT & Tax. The role is sought to support the development of our VAT Consultancy service offering, working alongside our VAT Team in Leeds who oversee production of close to 300 VAT returns across our NHS client base.

Sopra Steria and NHS SBS have won a "Great Place to Work" award again this year, as well as one of the best places to work for Women in the UK, and our focus is to support your wellbeing, which includes your work life balance, we are also committed to supporting you with whatever training you need to thrive in your role.

There will be some travel to some of our offices such as Leeds, or various client sites a few days a month depending on work load.

What you'll be doing:

The role will be heavily client facing, working towards challenging sales targets and helping shape the expansion of the service line. The successful candidate must be driven to succeed, available for frequent travel, give seminars/training and undertake a variety of VAT consultancy services in an efficient and professional manner.

Working both independently and alongside the Operational VAT Manager, Senior VAT Consultant and the wider VAT Team to promote and manage the sale of VAT Consultancy services to the NHS.

• Support the expansion of VAT Consultancy Services and generate income through the achievement of sales targets.
• Manage and facilitate routine VAT seminars to potential clients.
• Prepare technical VAT documents and communications for clients.
• Frequent travel to client sites for VAT work/meetings.
• Working with finance and commercial teams to support on billing arrangements.
• Provide internal and external training to develop the team and clients.
• Provide VAT consultancy services to clients such as Partial Exemption and Business/Non-Business reviews; NHS VAT Capital reviews; Output Tax reviews; Contract reviews and; any ad-hoc work required by client organisations in order to meet their VAT statutory obligations.

What you will bring:

• Comprehensive experience of the UK VAT ideally from the NHS or Public Sector.
• Experience in dealing with HMRC requests.
• Good communication, coaching and presentation skills.
• Proven track record in meeting and exceeding sales targets.
• Ability to make well informed decisions on complex raw data complying with any relevant legislation.
• Good commercial mind to make value judgments and recognise potential sales opportunities.
• Excellent IT skills - in particular the use of Microsoft packages.
• Full UK driving license and ability to travel across the UK to client sites.

It would be great if you had:

• Knowledge of Oracle ERP system
• Knowledge in other areas of VAT and Tax.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent.
Location: UK Anywhere - Hybrid Variable.
Internal Recruiter: Emma W
Salary: Up to £50,000.
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams' expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.
We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.
Would you like to join us on our journey?

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.