Direct Tax Compliance Specialist - 3 Month Fixed Term Contract

Are you looking for a role where your expertise can make a real difference across a complex, industry-leading business? Do you enjoy bringing together financial information, challenging assumptions, and helping ensure tax compliance is delivered to the highest standards? At EDF, Success is Personal. Join us and help shape the financial foundations that support our journey to a more sustainable future.

The Opportunity

As a Direct Tax Compliance Specialist, you'll join our Corporate Finance Tax team and play an important role in supporting direct tax compliance across a diverse range of EDF business units. Working closely with colleagues across Finance and the wider business, you'll prepare and review corporation tax returns, build strong stakeholder relationships, and help ensure compliance requirements are embedded across the organisation. Your work will support effective tax governance while helping EDF continue its journey towards An Electric Britain.

Alongside a competitive salary and potential for an annual bonus, this is a 3-month contract opportunity based in #London. You'll work in a hybrid way, splitting your time between home and our #NovaNorth office, with an expectation of attending the office a minimum of two days per week.

You'll join an experienced team of tax professionals who work across EDF UK's wide-ranging portfolio of businesses. This is an opportunity to apply your specialist corporation tax knowledge in a complex corporate environment, collaborating with senior stakeholders and supporting the delivery of high-quality tax compliance across the Group.

Who You Are

We're looking for a Direct Tax Compliance Specialist who combines strong technical tax expertise with the ability to work independently, build effective relationships, and communicate financial information clearly across a large organisation. Are you experienced in...

• UK corporation tax compliance within a large corporate organisation and/or professional accounting or tax practice
• Preparing and reviewing corporation tax returns for HMRC submission
• Working with corporation tax software, including OneSource Corporation Tax Next Generation
• Building relationships with finance teams and business stakeholders to gather and challenge tax information
• Holding, or working towards, a recognised accounting and/or tax qualification such as CTA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent

What You'll Be Doing

• Preparing accurate and complete corporation tax returns across companies within the EDF Energy Group
• Working closely with Business Units and Financial Shared Services teams to gather and validate tax information
• Reviewing tax data to ensure it is accurate, complete and supported by appropriate evidence
• Acting as a key link between the Tax team and wider business stakeholders
• Supporting the delivery of high standards of direct tax compliance across EDF UK

Pay, Benefits and Culture

Alongside a competitive salary and potential for an annual bonus, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days, and more.

At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that's unique to you. Here, Success is Personal. It's your journey, powered by us.

Everyone is welcome at EDF; we're committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility, and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.

Join us and find your success at EDF!

Closing Date: Sunday 13th September

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Success is Personal. It's your journey, powered by us. Join us and drive the transition towards An Electric Britain.