Corporate Tax Specialist

Job Title: Corporate & People Taxes Specialist

Duration: until December 2025

Location: London (Hybrid, Tuesday - Thursday office)

Start Date: September 2025 (ASAP Start)

This role will support driving our tax strategy and ensuring compliance across multiple jurisdictions. You will support the business across various operational areas on both corporate and people (employment, mobility) tax matters, reporting to the Head of Corporate Taxes for Europe. This role requires strong advisory skills, strategic thinking and stakeholder engagement to manage tax risks, enhance processes, enable projects and ensure compliance across the European region.

Key Responsibilities.

• Act as a key contact for corporate and people tax matters, supporting the Head of Corporate Taxes for Europe on strategic and operational matters.
• Contribute to strategic corporate projects (e.g. new locations, expansion of operations) and advise on corporate residency, permanent establishments and board director matters.
• Support on transfer pricing matters, R&D, tax audits and tax authority engagement.
• Manage corporate tax compliance (supported by advisors), including tax provisions, for 10 European entities and branches, ensuring timely and accurate submissions.
• Advise on and monitor employee mobility/travel and assess corporate tax, payroll and social security implications (supporting Global Payroll and US Corporate Tax).
• Partner with HR, Global Payroll and Global Mobility teams on operational matters, including support for employment tax returns, UK PSA calculations, contractors (IR35) and expatriates matters.
• Identify opportunities and deliver value through process improvements and adoption of technology.
• Maintain robust control frameworks for your areas of responsibility, ensuring consistent practice and compliance, and contribute to broader governance and tax risk management.
• Monitor and interpret legislative changes across Europe, advising on impacts and leading implementation of required changes.
• Provide support across a broad range of tax-related projects and initiatives, contributing expertise and resource flexibility as needed to meet evolving business priorities.
  
  Qualifications :
  
• Strong background/ experience in a similar role
• Strong advisory skills, strategic thinking and stakeholder engagement to manage tax risks, enhance processes, enable projects and ensure compliance across the European region.
• Accountancy qualified. (Tax qualification would be a bonus).
• Bachelors Degree preferred.
  
  

Vanguard's continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: "Do the right thing." We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard's core purpose through our values. When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.

Client-provided location(s): London, United Kingdom

Job ID: Vanguard-169780

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-08-06T13:17:32