Summary

What you'll do

As a Tax Officer, you'll ensure NHG's tax compliance and efficiency, directly supporting our mission to provide affordable homes across London. Working closely with the Tax Manager and Tax Associate, you'll safeguard VAT accuracy, identify strategic opportunities, and contribute to financial practices that benefit residents and communities.

How you'll do it

• Prepare VAT returns for NHG and subsidiaries, ensuring adherence to HMRC regulations and deadlines.

• Assist in posting VAT journals, reconcile control accounts, and maintain schedules aligned with monthly reporting cycles.

• Assist in group audits related to tax matters, providing accurate data and resolving queries promptly.

• Support Partial Exemption calculations and identify tax planning opportunities to reduce risks and enhance efficiency.

• Handle complex datasets in Excel and internal systems, ensuring precision in tax records and compliance tracking.

• Drive enhancements in financial controls and tax processes to support NHG's strategic goals.

The ideal candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.

Essential:

• Hold or studying towards CCAD recognised accounting qualification (AAT/CTA/ACCA or equivalent)

• Experience in tax compliance and VAT partial exemption

• An understanding of stamp duties and corporation tax

• Proficiency in Excel and experience managing financial data/reconciliations.

• Strong analytical skills to interpret tax legislation and support data-driven decisions.

• Excellent communication abilities for collaborating with internal/external stakeholders.

Desirable:

• Experience with VAT compliance in large organisations.

• Familiarity with housing sector finance

Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential. Benefits include:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
• Health cash plan
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

All about us

Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.

For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.

To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/

Selection Process

Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 13 June 2025.  

Step 2: Successful candidates will be invited to a screening call

Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview and assessment

Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via .  

Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.

NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.