Global Indirect Tax and Fiscal Advisory Manager

Job Description

What You’ll Do

Primark is seeking a strategic and commercially aware tax professional to lead indirect tax and fiscal compliance across our global operations, with a key focus on the rollout of our new POS system (GPOS). This role blends technical tax expertise, regulatory insight, and project leadership to ensure our systems and processes meet evolving VAT, sales tax, and fiscal requirements across multiple jurisdictions.

You’ll work cross-functionally to design technology solutions, enhance the indirect tax data environment, mitigate compliance risks, and ensure fiscal and indirect tax requirements are seamlessly embedded into business processes and systems across all markets

We want you to feel challenged and inspired. Here, you’ll develop your skills across a range of responsibilities:

• Lead the indirect tax workstream for the Global POS (GPOS) programme, ensuring indirect tax compliance requirements are embedded within solution design and deployment, and ensuring robust alignment with multi-jurisdictional regulatory landscapes.
• Drive indirect tax and fiscal requirements gathering, risk mitigation and governance activities to support successful GPOS programme delivery and long-term indirect tax compliance.
• Ensure GPOS and related systems, processes and data support accurate indirect tax reporting, filings, payments and audit readiness.
• Partner with Technology, Finance, Legal and external vendors to establish a robust global fiscal compliance framework across multiple jurisdictions.
• Lead the transformation of indirect tax data across all key systems and reporting capabilities, improving data quality, reconciliation processes and reporting accuracy.
• Identify and implement opportunities to standardise, automate and enhance indirect tax reporting processes and controls across the business.
• Oversee indirect tax governance, fiscal controls and vendor management, ensuring effective monitoring and risk mitigation.
• Promote continuous improvement by leveraging technology, automation and data analytics to strengthen tax compliance, controls and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

What You’ll Bring  

We want every person in our organisation to feel like they’re making a key contribution. Here are some of the experiences and skills you’ll need for the role:

• Qualified tax professional with 6+ years' post-qualification experience.
• Strong organisational of EU VAT principles and how they apply to transactional data and controls.
• Experience in data quality and governance, finance systems or indirect tax operations.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex tax issues.
• Proficient in Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, or comparable data analysis tools.
• Commercially aware, detail-orientated and highly organised.

What You’ll Get 

People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best. Let’s talk lifestyle:   

Let’s talk lifestyle: Healthcare, pension, potential bonus, 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.  

Does this sound like you? Great, because we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring. You’ll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we’re excited about our future - and we’re excited to develop yours.  

Additional Information

About Primark 

Primark was founded on a mission that everyone deserves to look and feel good – without paying more. We stand for great value without compromise, offering affordable fashion and everyday essentials that are made to last. Founded in Ireland in 1969, Primark is now an international fashion retailer with more than 500 stores across 19 countries in Europe, the US and the Middle East, employing more than 80,000 colleagues. Millions of shopper’s trust Primark every week for everything from everyday essentials like t-shirts and socks, to the latest fashion trends – all at unbeatable prices.

Primark is built on a belief and passion for physical stores – helping to bring high streets and retail centres to life and creating joyful, social experiences. The company is focused on driving positive change by giving clothing a longer life, protecting life on the planet and supporting the livelihoods of the people who make Primark clothes.