VAT Operations Tax Analyst

# VAT Operations Tax Analyst Job Req  Date: 3 Mar 2026

Function:
Finance Unit:
Finance & Business Services

Location:

Assembly, Bristol, United Kingdom Salary:
Competitive
** Hybrid Working: 3 days working in the office, 2 days working from home**##
** Why this job matters
** This role sits at the heart of BT’s financial integrity and strategic decision‑making. We ensure BT meets its compliance obligations and effectively manages its financial risks, while developing deep functional insight through our people and our partnerships with external stakeholders.

As a team, we maintain specialist capabilities, set the strategies and policies that guide the business, and operate the expert processes that underpin BT’s performance. We work to ensure our specialist areas are well understood across Customer Facing Units and Corporate Units, and we own BT’s relationships with key authorities, regulators, and external providers.

Everything we do is shaped around the external market, ensuring our practices and expertise remain relevant, influential, and future‑ready.##
** What you’ll be doing
*** Assisting with the monthly process to collate data from across the business into BT’s VAT Reporting Tool.
* Assisting with the preparation, consolidation and the timely filing of BT’s UK VAT return each quarter.
* Assisting with the VAT governance framework.
* Build relationships internally providing VAT advice, training and support as required to facilitate accurate tax coding of transactions and an accurate VAT return compliant with MTD requirements.
* Continuously improve VAT process and governance framework challenging the existing ways of doing things, utilising BT’s VAT
* Reporting Tool;
Robotic Process Automation, and introducing new technology.
* Assisting with VAT tax risks, including tax audits.##
** The skills you'll need
*** An interest in tax with a strong desire to develop a deep understanding of UK indirect tax.
* Ability to coordinate and prioritise complex and diverse issues.
* Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders
* Possess a high level of attention to detail as well as excellent organisational, communication and time management skills with experience of meeting targets and deadlines.
* Tax or accounting education/experience is preferable but not essential.##
** Benefits
* ** 10% on target bonus
* BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
* From January 2025, equal family leave:  receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
* Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
* 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
* 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
* 2 weeks carer’s leave
* World-class training and development opportunities
* Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.##
** Our leadership standards
**** Looking in:*
* ** Leading inclusively and Safely
** I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.  
** Owning outcomes
** I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
** Looking out:*
* ** Delivering for the customer
** I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.  
** Commercially savvy
** I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
** Looking to the future:*
* ** Growth mindset
** I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.  
** Building for the future
** I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled.  As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.
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