VAT Expert

The VAT Expert is a senior subject matter expert responsible for end-to-end VAT compliance, ensuring accuracy, and technical excellence across indirect tax (VAT) obligations, while supporting digital tax reporting and e-invoicing requirements. The role provides technical VAT expertise, supports regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions, oversees the quality of outsourced activities, and drives continuous improvement in reporting and compliance processes. 

You will: 

• Act as the subject matter expert for VAT compliance across multiple jurisdictions, providing technical guidance to finance teams, business stakeholders and outsourced providers. 

• Oversee indirect tax compliance, reviewing and approve VAT returns, EC Sales Lists, Intrastat declarations and other filings, while advising on domestic and cross-border VAT treatment. 

• Oversee VAT accounting and reconciliations, ensuring VAT returns reconcile to underlying financial records and appropriate balance sheet controls are in place. 

• Support digital tax compliance, including e-invoicing, CTC, SAF-T, ViDA and real-time reporting requirements, ensuring accurate submissions and data integrity. 

• Monitor changes in VAT legislation, digital tax reporting and regulatory requirements, assessing risks and implementing necessary compliance improvements. 

• Coordinate VAT audits and regulatory enquiries, maintaining accurate reconciliations, supporting documentation and audit-ready records. 

• Contribute to ERP enhancements, tax technology implementations and finance transformation projects, including system testing, automation and digital reporting solutions. 

• Manage outsourced VAT compliance and digital reporting activities, reviewing deliverables, resolving technical issues and maintaining governance, internal controls and process documentation. 

• Partner with Group Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Shared Service Centres and external advisors, supporting audits, coaching junior colleagues and driving continuous improvement, standardisation and best practices. 
  

You will bring: 

• Minimum education to degree level, holding either BSC/BS/BA and either qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or equivalent relevant experience. 

• Strong experience in VAT, indirect tax and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions. 

• Good understanding of domestic and cross-border VAT requirements. 

• Experience working with BPO providers and Shared Service Centres. 

• Good understanding of internal controls, financial governance and tax compliance controls, with experience operating or reviewing control frameworks. 

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA and tax reporting solutions. 

• Advanced Microsoft Office skills are essential, particularly use of Excel including pivot tables, Power Bi and macros. 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities. 

Desirable: 

• Experience with digital tax reporting (DIG), including e-invoicing, SAF-T, CTC regimes, ViDA and real-time reporting requirements. 

Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista-style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack, and a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between the train station and the office at peak times. 

Take a look at our video tour of the Weybridge site here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwbMOzjoVA 

Life at Sony 

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture. 

We celebrate colleagues who make a real difference through our recognition platform. We provide access to services and platforms for wellbeing, listen to our people through conversations and surveys, and offer volunteering days so staff can support causes they care about. 

You can build your career around you with our learning and personal development programmes, and explore opportunities in a wide range of countries with support from our mobility team. 

Bring your uniqueness to Sony 

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives who stimulate innovation and contribute to Sony’s purpose: “to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology”. Bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture. 

We are Sony Europe 

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique. 

With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contribute to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale. 

Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together. 

Equal Opportunity 

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics. 

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe 

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individual with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, The Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required. 

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