Assistant Indirect Tax Accountant

Overview

At Frasers Group we’re rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we’re serving our consumers with the world’s best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we’re elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.

Our mission- we are building the worlds most admired and compelling brand ecosystem

Our purpose – we are elevating the lives of the many with access to the world’s best brands and experiences

At Frasers Group, we fear less and do more. Our people are forward thinkers who are driven to operate outside of their comfort zone to change the future of retail, embracing challenges along the way. The potential to elevate your career is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles:

• Think without limits - Think fast, think fearlessly, and take the team with you
• Own it and back yourself - Own the basics, own your role and own the results
• Be relevant - Relevant to our people, our partners and the planet

Are you ready to join the Fearless?

The Frasers UK Group has around 70 separate VAT registrations across numerous corporate entities covering many different activities (Retail, Property, IP & Licensing).

As we continue to grow, we need to expand the tax department in order to manage our tax compliance obligations and add value through identifying tax opportunities.

The role will work within the in-house tax team on:

• Gathering data to draft quarterly UK VAT returns
• Preparing the returns for review by the Senior Indirect Tax Manager
• VAT returns submission to HMRC
• IOSS/overseas VAT returns submissions
• Other indirect tax-related matters

This is a fast-paced environment with huge potential for being able to identify and solve problems, adding value to the business and making a huge impact.

• Working with both the current accounting system (DREAM) and the new Dynamics 365 system (from 2026 onwards), preparing the data for inclusion in the relevant quarterly VAT returns
• Investigating review points raised by the Senior Indirect VAT Manager
• Managing the VAT returns process – ensuring that due dates and quarters are recorded correctly, adding new entities, updating if they are deregistered
• Making sure that VAT returns are submitted on time and payments requested
• Resolving Errors corrections – in accounting system
• IOSS/overseas VAT submissions
• Preparing options to tax for property transactions and VAT registrations and de-registrations
• Supporting the maintenance and improvement of VAT processes and controls
• Identifying VAT risks, errors, or anomalies in the accounting system and escalating appropriately
• Assisting with VAT health checks across entities
• Assisting the wider finance team to improve VAT data quality at source
• Assisting with responses to HMRC queries and information requests
• Filing VAT documentation, registrations, and correspondence records appropriately
• Providing Group Finance and/or external auditors and advisers with VAT-related information when required
• Maintaining a good working relationship with HMRC and other Frasers colleagues outside the tax team

Qualifications

Able to demonstrate the Frasers Values:

• Own it and back yourself - will take pride in what you do with confidence, but not overconfidence. It’s important you take ownership of your decisions, stand by your convictions and reason with contradiction.
• Think without limits and take the team with you - See the possible in impossible and will be open-minded and humble, not afraid to take a risk if it’s the best option for the business.
• Be Relevant to Our People, Partners and The Planet - It’s important to be focused and have a commercial mindset at all times, always considering the impact of any decision.
• Ability to demonstrate experience of the qualities necessary to lead the group in its transition from reliance upon 3rd party advisors to being a self-sufficient internal tax function.
• Valid working rights for the EMEA countries
• Ability to meet deadlines and solve problems, both as a member of a team and…