Senior Tax Manager - Indirect tax

End Date

Sunday 15 November 2026

Salary Range

£107,304 - £126,240

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Flexible Working Options

Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

This is a unique opportunity to join the VAT Team within Group Tax, helping to manage VAT risk across Lloyds Banking Group as a whole.

With a Group-wide remit, you’ll combine your indirect tax expertise with close partnership across the business, providing high-quality advice and helping ensure our VAT activities, processes and controls are effective.
You’ll have the opportunity to get involved in a broad range of work, from advising on new products, income streams and transactions to strengthening VAT compliance and identifying opportunities to improve how we work!

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Tax Manager – Indirect Tax

SALARY: As per range

LOCATION: London, Old Broad Street

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: Edinburgh & Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

The VAT Team sits within Group Tax and plays an important role in managing VAT risk across Lloyds Banking Group. You’ll join a collaborative team, using your technical expertise to provide high-quality analysis and practical, insightful advice to colleagues across the Group.

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide high-quality indirect tax advice across the business on new income streams, products and transactions.
• Build strong relationships with key internal partners, acting as a business partner to understand new products and transactions.
• Ensure VAT compliance by reviewing returns, working with business areas and providing dashboards to senior colleagues.
• Lead systems and process assurance reviews, identifying indirect tax risks and working with owners to resolve issues and establish effective governance and controls.
• Improve and streamline VAT activities and processes using the Group’s tax technology resources.
• Work with the business to document processes and controls, and monitor their implementation.
• Design and deliver tailored training to address capability gaps and improve performance.
• Analyse data from multiple sources to identify key themes and potential business impacts.
• Identify shortcomings and improve VAT processes and structures across owned business areas.
• Develop procedures and interpret policy to deliver required business outcomes.

Why join us?

If you think all banks are the same, you’re wrong. We’re a pioneering, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. If you’re after a role where you can have an impact and do the best work of your career, you’ve just found it.

What we’re looking for:

• Trusted VAT Advisor: strong capability in applying VAT expertise to ensure VAT reporting obligations are fulfilled, tracked and appropriately managed. Preferably CTA or equivalent work experience within the Financial Services industry.
• Risk Management: the ability to consider tax risk holistically, anticipate emerging issues and apply sound judgement when priorities or circumstances are complex.
• Tax Technology and Data Management: the ability to interpret technical information objectively, identify assumptions or gaps and develop well-reasoned solutions and advice.
• Communication: the ability to understand different perspectives and explain complex information clearly, meaningfully and in a way that suits the stakeholder.
• Collaboration: the ability to develop effective working relationships and work across organisational boundaries to achieve shared outcomes.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We want to ensure all our candidates have the opportunity to shine. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make the sure the assessment process works for you.

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you’ll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

About Us

With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.

Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.

Need Help?

Should you wish to contact us for any reason, please email us at: careers@lloydsbanking.com

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