VAT Analyst

Chertsey, England, United Kingdom

7/2/2025

Position Summary

Why join our team?

The role sits within the Corporate Tax and VAT team, within the wider Tax and Financial Control team. You will be part of a supportive and collaborative team working to ensure that the Samsung Electronics business continues to be a compliant and responsible tax payer.

Role And Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities

• Prepare the VAT returns for the UK and Irish VAT registrations.
• Work with external advisers to manage the VAT return review process, ensuring adherence to both internal and statutory deadlines.
• Prepare the Intrastat returns for the Irish VAT registration.
• Manage queries from marketing teams in relation to invoice approvals, including reviewing the VAT treatment of marketing spend.
• Support the wider team with reconciliation of the VAT creditor account for the UK and Ireland.
• Assist with ensuring compliance with HMRC’s GfC8 (Guidelines for Compliance – VAT).
• Identify ways to improve efficiency, to enhance and streamline existing processes, and assist with implementing these changes.
• Assist with ad-hoc projects as required.
  
  
  

What We Need For This Role

To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:

Soft skills - i.e. personal attributes:

• Ability to build relationships across the business to support teams with a variety of business issues.
• Ability to meet deadlines and to complete assignments within a reasonable timeframe.
• Must be able to work without close supervision.
  
  
  

Hard skills/experience required:

• Strong excel skills required.
• Indirect tax experience and understanding of accountancy for VAT purposes would be beneficial, but not essential.
  
  
  

What does success look like?

• Assisting with managing the VAT compliance obligations of SEUK.
• Assisting with identifying opportunities and implementing changes in order to reduce VAT risk across SEUK.
  
  
  

The interview process

There will be two stages of interview, and both will be competency based.

Interviewers: Bella Syred, Pamela Skoczypiec, Martin Richardson.

Skills And Qualifications

Benefits of working at Samsung include

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week
• Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance
• Pension contribution
• Three volunteering days each year
• Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday
• Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products
• Access to a discount shopping portal
• Partner Colleagues are not eligible for Samsung Enhanced Paid Sick Leave but may be eligible for statutory payments from their payroll agency
• Up to 20 (pro-rata) Partner Absence days per calendar year to be used in times of need
  
  
  

A note on equal opportunities

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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