Job Description

Are you a tax expert with a passion for compliance and risk management? We are looking for an Employment Tax Manager to lead and govern employment tax risk across the UK & Europe. In this role, you will ensure compliance, design best-in-class tax processes, and provide expert guidance to business functions. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to develop and implement global tax strategies while staying ahead of evolving regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Employment Tax Compliance: Act as a subject matter expert, ensuring compliance across UK & Europe.
• Advisory & Training: Provide guidance to payroll and other process owners on tax regulations and best practices.
• Process & Risk Management: Design, implement, and enhance employment tax processes while identifying and mitigating potential risks.
• Regulatory & Reporting Oversight: 
  • Manage UK and German tax compliance reporting.
  • Oversee preparation of PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA) and P11Ds.
  • Review expenses and ensure accurate share returns (Forms 42 & 34).
  • Handle Short-Term Business Visitors (Appendix 6 & 4) reporting.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with regional and global tax teams to align strategies and maintain governance standards.
• Audit & Continuous Improvement: Ensure audit trails are maintained and proactively address policy/process weaknesses.

Skills and Qualifications

Skills

• Expertise in UK Employment Taxes, including annual compliance and ad hoc queries.
• Experience with international tax issues, including expatriate taxes and social security.
• Strong analytical skills and highly numerate, with advanced Excel proficiency.
• Proven ability to manage complex European tax regulations.
• Ability to collaborate across teams, ensuring seamless tax risk management.

Qualifications

• Membership in ATT or CTA (mandatory).
• Experience managing employment tax processes across UK & Europe.
• Strong understanding of regulatory compliance and tax reporting requirements. 

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.