UK Direct Tax Compliance Leader

Position Overview

As UK Direct Tax Compliance Leader at Parker Meggitt’s Ansty site, you will play a key role in managing and controlling corporation tax procedures, compliance, and tax disclosures across all UK entities. This is a varied and high-impact role requiring excellent tax technical ability, strong project management skills, and a proactive “can do” attitude.

Responsibilities

You will lead the preparation, review, and submission of UK corporate tax returns, ensuring all compliance requirements are delivered accurately and on time. You will also be responsible for administering group payment arrangements, liaising with HMRC on UK group Corporation Tax compliance matters, and supporting HMRC risk assessments and enquiries as required. Working closely with internal finance teams and external consultants, you will provide input on specialist areas including R&D and Patent Box, while helping to maintain robust tax governance and continuous improvement across UK direct tax processes. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled tax professional to take ownership of critical compliance activities within a global engineering business.

Key Responsibilities

Manage collection, interrogation and consolidation of detailed tax packages and related information from site teams
Manage preparation and submission of UK entity tax computations and returns
1st review of UK entity tax computations and returns
Preparation of group CIR calculations
Managing group relief allocation
Monitoring of group loss positions and allocations
Review of tax disclosures for the statutory accounts of the UK entities

Essential skills and experience you’ll need to be considered for this position

ACA/ACCA and/or CTA qualified
In depth technical knowledge and experience of Corporation Tax
Relevant tax experience in Big 4/leading Mid-Tier and/or large corporate; solid relevant and current tax experience
Good awareness of all taxes
Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills with the ability to convey complex issues to senior management as appropriate
Self-starter and ability to constructively challenge
Experience with corporate tax accounting
Broad experience of finance and tax technology
Great project management skills

Ideally, you’ll also have

Experience with Alphatax software

What We Offer

Parker Meggitt is proud to offer a competitive total rewards framework designed with our colleagues' health, wealth, and well-being in mind to help our employees balance a successful career. Our competitive package will include:

1 day working from home
Funded membership of a professional body
Focused career development planning with opportunities to progress
Pension scheme with up to 10% matching company contribution
Income protection scheme
Life Assurance x4 basic salary
Share buying scheme
25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy and sell up to 5 days
Service-related holiday (3 years = 1 day and increase up to max 5 days)
Cash Plan or Private Medical Cover
Employee Assistance Program for Health & Wellbeing
Free on-site car parking
Employee Referral Scheme
An on-site restaurant and Starbucks offering subsidised food
Employee Perks – offering our employees discounts on a huge variety of goods and services

EMEA Business Descr

Parker Hannifin EMEA Sàrl (“PHEMEA”), based in Etoy, Switzerland, is the Principal Operating Company for Parker in the EMEA region. It is supported by a network of Parker Manufacturing Divisions and Sales Company Entities. The Aerospace Group EMEA is a strategic business Group within PHEMEA. Hydraulic Systems Division EMEA (HSDE) is a key service provider to PHEMEA.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Parker is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on grounds of age, race, religion, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation or disability in relation to recruitment and employment.

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