Group Tax Accountant

Stonegate Group is the UK’s largest operator of pubs, bars, and late-night venues,including Slug & Lettuce, Be At One, and Popworld, to name a few.

We’re proud of our diverse portfolio and deeply committed to creating an inclusive culture that embraces individuality in all its forms—including neurodiversity. By fostering an environment where everyone feels welcome, valued, and supported, we reflect the vibrant communities we serve and empower our people to thrive..

The successful candidate will be involved in the tax compliance, tax accounting and tax advisory work for the different business units within the Group. Key responsibilities will include ensuring we pay and account for the correct level of corporation tax, VAT, Machine Gaming Duty (MGD), employment taxes and stamp taxes.

Reporting to the Group Tax Manager, this role is critical to the Group’s use of internal resource to produce its tax accounting and reporting information, and to provide advice across the Group where required. The job holder will also ensure the Group is fully compliant with the latest tax and VAT legislation through cross department communication and process audit. The role will also support the Group in managing its tax position efficiently.

The role will include use of AI-powered tools and systems to handle large datasets and to improve ways of working. The successful candidate will act as one of the main points of contact for tax and VAT queries, both internally and externally.

Whilst the role reports to the Group Tax Manager, the successful candidate will be expected to gain a complete understanding of the Group’s tax and VAT accounting processes and controls. This will allow them to assist in completion of all areas within the remit of the Group tax function, the main responsibilities of the role being:

• Production and submission of corporation tax computations, including the large volume of analysis required to prepare those computations
• Calculation of tax accounting provisions for Group and statutory accounts, including deferred tax on chargeable gains (contingent tax accounting), fixed assets and effective tax rate forecasting
• Production of accurate payment on account forecasts for the Group’s subsidiaries
• Chargeable gains calculation for property disposals, including rollover relief claims
• Preparation of Corporate Interest Restriction calculations and returns
• Preparation of capital allowances claims, including deferred revenue expenditure claims
• Auditing and reviewing capital allowances categorisation of capital projects to ensure the company is following the correct legislation and making the most beneficial claims
• Ensure the Group holds procedure notes and control documents for all key areas of corporation tax

• Act as one of the main contacts for VAT queries, internally and between the Group and HMRC
• Produce quarterly VAT returns for the VAT registrations prepared in-house, including different partial exemption calculations, and periodically review VAT returns prepared by the Group’s managed investment partners
• Audit VAT coding of expenditure, particularly property expenditure, and ensure best practice for recovery of VAT on costs across all different business units in the Group
• Ensure compliance with Making Tax Digital including review and reconciliation of VAT entries
• Ensure the Group holds procedure notes and control documents for all key areas of VAT accounting

• Act as one of the main contacts for employment tax queries, internally and between the Group and HMRC
• Prepare benefit in kind calculations and P11
  
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• Prepare annual PAYE…