Tax Manager, Starling Bank
1-5 days a week in office
Mobile-first bank offering personal, joint and business accounts
Open for applications
Mobile-first bank offering personal, joint and business accounts
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Anne Boden founded Starling with a clear goal: to build a bank that would help you manage your money, all from one app. Their vision is to give everyone clarity and control over their money so they have the opportunity to enjoy a healthy financial life.
Role
Who you are
- A strong tax and finance background, gained in practice and/or industry
- Experience of international taxes would be an advantage
- Indirect tax and employment tax experience is desirable, but not essential
- Enthusiasm and a drive to expand your knowledge in new areas is as important as experience
- Professional Qualification desirable but not essential: ACA, ACCA, CTA or part qualified, with accounting knowledge
- A self-starter and independent worker with strong interpersonal skills
- Well organised with the ability to plan and deliver on tight deadlines with attention to detail
- A practical and commercial approach to problem solving, and the ability to communicate complex tax matters to both a tax and non-tax audience
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Tax Manager to join our growing tax team. Alongside the Senior Tax Managers, Head of Tax and the finance, payroll and HR teams, you will assist with the group’s UK and international corporation tax, indirect tax and employment tax affairs. This will include supporting a wide range of tax projects and managing tax compliance and tax risk
- Assist in managing the Group’s UK and international corporation tax compliance including quarterly tax provisions, corporation tax returns/payments, transfer pricing models and R&D expenditure credit claims
- Support the organisation and wider tax team by taking a leading role in tax risk management and governance
- Assist with employment tax issues across the group including annual compliance (PSA, P11Ds etc), establishing local country payrolls for overseas employees and tax implications for internationally mobile employees
- Support with tax reporting such as FATCA and CRS returns, BBSI returns and CT61 returns
- Liaison between the finance and tax/payroll teams, as required across the taxes
- You may also be involved and assist where required in a wide range of strategic tax advisory projects such as international expansion, tax structuring and IPO planning
- You may also support the group’s indirect tax compliance both in the UK and internationally
- Your role will likely include assisting with internal ad hoc tax advice across the business including preparation of internal memos and training material
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Starling started life focused on consumer banking, they have since found most of their success by competing in the business banking space. They’ve caught up with Tide and beaten the likes of Monzo and Revolut to a more complete offering for businesses.
This progress resulted in them receiving a £100m grant in April 2019 from a body created to boost competition in SME banking, which they're using to accelerate building a full suite of digital banking products: intelligent forecasting tools, and digitally-enabled relationship management functions as well as lending products.
As well as continuing to expand in the UK, they’re expanding in Europe. They’re imminently launching an international bank in Dublin, which will allow Starling to offer its current account across the European Union after Brexit.
Banking for small businesses has historically been ignored even though the experience is poor. Starling is in tune with knowing what their customers want, and they continue to build out their range of third-party products within its banking app thanks to support from its open API. They currently have 11 integrations, including Xero, but that figure continues to grow.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
43% female employees
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Apr 2022
$171.3m
LATE VC
Jun 2021
$46m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off!
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing
- Incentives refer a friend scheme
Company values
- Do the right thing
- Listen
- Aim for greatness
- Own it
- Keep it simple
Company HQ
Spitalfields, London, UK
Leadership
Anne Boden
(Founder)Held senior roles in finance over a 30 year career, including COO for AIB and Head of EMEA for RBS.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Starling Bank
Manuela Torrijos-Simon (Group Financial Controller)
- In the spirit of Aiming for Greatness and Doing the Right Thing, we want to be the bank with the best approach to Diversity and Inclusion
- The Always Open Forum at Starling empowers employees to come together and own their areas of interest, supporting their agenda both internally and externally
- The forum creates a safe space for conversations about all Diversity and Inclusion topics, with the spotlight currently on 3 focus areas; Race and Ethnicity, LGBTQ+ and Mental Health.
- We’re about to launch a new group to support Disability, and all of these teams help bring Starlings together to improve our workplace
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