Group Tax Specialist

Bracknell
3256

Panasonic Europe | October 2026

We are looking for an experienced and proactive Group Tax Specialist to oversee the UK and European tax compliance across the Group, meeting internal and external requirements. The role holder will be working closely with UK businesses (typically, management and finance teams, playing a critical role in ensuring tax efficiency, transparency, and compliance). This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a role with influence, variety, and long-term career potential.

Role Overview This role operates within the Panasonic Europe Tax team, which provides a range of tax shared services to Panasonic businesses in the European region. Reporting to the European Tax Manager, the role holder will support the effective management of UK and European corporation tax and VAT for the Panasonic group. The role holder will co-ordinate the provision of UK tax shared services to UK businesses of the Panasonic group, including annual corporation tax compliance, VAT and supporting the UK tax aspects of business, organisational and systems change.

This will entail active business partnering with relevant UK management, finance and commercial teams. In addition, the role holder will develop and communicate group policies relating to the UK tax group, co-ordinate mandatory UK tax interactions between members of the UK tax group where UK tax laws operate on a group-wide basis, and support central UK tax group requirements, including but not limited to Senior Accounting Officer compliance and publication of the annual UK tax policy.

The role holder will also prepare / co-ordinate VAT and CT returns for PE BV’s European branches (Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Poland and UK).How you will become part of the bigger picture..Enable all UK businesses in the Panasonic group to remain tax compliant through submission of group compliance as follows:
Support the annual SAO process from notification to reporting. Preparation of supporting documents for all UK companies relating to SAO obligations

Preparation of UK Group relief, GDA allocation, AIA allocation and CIR return. This requires proactively liaising with all UK businesses to request necessary information and prepare returns for review.

Support in updating the published UK Group Tax Policy each year.

Support in communicating changes in UK tax law and HMRC practice to tax and business stakeholders. UK Tax compliance and provisioning

Key activities:

Prepare annual corporation tax returns and computations and ensure timely submission to HMRC. (using Alphatax software)
Prepare year end tax accounting workings and support year end tax review by external auditors.

Preparation of quarterly VAT return (using One Source) Tax partnering with UK businesses

Key activities:

Participate in regular meetings / calls with each UK business to understand forthcoming business developments that may have a tax impact.

Provide UK tax support on projects; perform tax analysis and support tax compliance in connection with business, organisational and systems change.

Assist with ad hoc tax queries from the business by researching solutions.

Assist to resolve potential impact on the business from change of UK tax law Assist with annual HMRC Business risk review / tax audits as required Tax partnering with European businesses – particularly PE BV

Key activities:

Co-ordinate European CT compliance with consultant support

Prepare and submit VAT returns for European branches of PE BVOther matters as required

What you will bring to the picture..Experience, Knowledge and skills:2 to 3 years of practical UK tax experience.

Microsoft Office proficiency, particularly Excel (pivot tables/vlookups etc), PowerPoint and Word.

SAP knowledge (S4

Hana and R3)
Ability to…