Indirect Tax Analyst

Job Title: Indirect Tax Analyst

Location: Wigmore Street, London + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role : SF74040

Shape financial integrity in a role that protects critical national operations

As an Indirect Tax Analyst, you’ll play a key role in ensuring Babcock meets its indirect tax and compliance obligations across a complex, global organisation. Supporting the Indirect Tax Manager and Head of Indirect Tax, you’ll help drive accuracy, consistency, and continuous improvement in tax processes that underpin vital defence, aerospace, and engineering programmes.

This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career in a high‑impact finance and tax environment, where your expertise contributes directly to responsible business operations and compliance at scale.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll gain exposure to a wide range of tax matters while working collaboratively across finance, procurement, and operational teams.

• Preparing and reviewing value added tax, construction industry scheme, and PAYE settlement agreement returns
• Ensuring all tax returns are completed and submitted accurately and on time across the business
• Supporting the development and standardisation of tax processes, procedures, and documentation
• Building relationships across the organisation to embed strong tax compliance and awareness
• Identifying and implementing improvements to systems, controls, and tax reporting processes

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with the requirement to go into the office once a month or as projects determine.

• Demonstrating experience within an indirect tax or tax compliance role
• Applying knowledge of cross‑border indirect tax rules for goods and services
• Understanding core financial and accounting principles
• Analysing data and interpreting tax regulations to provide clear insights
• Managing multiple priorities and solving problems in a fast‑paced environment

• Either hold or working towards/willing to work towards a relevant professional qualification – ACA, ACCA, CTA, AAT.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of our positions require national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. Your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels –  ().

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year to support a chosen charity
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment with strong career development opportunities

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email car with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive.

Closing date: 18/06/2026