Director of Tax Corporate Support - London, United Kingdom - Lyst

Lyst

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Lyst offers a unique opportunity to work on a premium shopping platform, which is both a trusted partner to the world's leading fashion brands and a global consumer-facing product.

Over 150 million people use the Lyst app and website each year to shop an assortment of 8 million items via a highly personalised experience.

Lyst is a scale-up environment, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience.

This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace. Our goal is to be the category leading destination for every fashion shopper.

Data and technology sit at the heart of everything we do, and we firmly believe that we can only meet our goals by prioritising our team and culture.

We give our people the freedom to drive impact and shape the future of our company, within a diverse, inclusive and high-trust environment.

We don't rely on prescriptive rules, policies and procedures to drive results.

We trust the judgement and ownership of our team, and prioritise learning and career development, knowing that our success is only possible thanks to our people.

Lyst was founded in London in 2010, and has raised over $160m from leading investors including Accel, Balderton, Molten Ventures, Fidelity International, and LVMH.

We are looking to hire a qualified tax professional with in-house experience specialising in indirect tax to manage our tax responsibilities.

This is a great opportunity for the right individual to make a mark in a small but high performing team in a fast paced environment.

As a team, we focus on ensuring our reporting is robust through effective controls, whilst constantly looking to iterate and improve our processes, to maintain our position as an industry leading department.

As the pioneer of Lyst's tax function you will have complete ownership across the company's tax landscape and have a real impact on how it develops; setting up a best practice function with a goal of outstanding tax governance and global compliance.

As Lyst's tax expert you will get the opportunity to work with all taxes, both indirect and direct, covering VAT, sales tax, corporation tax, R&D, DST and employment taxes.

Responsibilities:

Be responsible for Lyst's tax compliance:
Complete annual UK tax filings including the UK corporation tax return, R&D claim and employee benefit filings; and
Liaise with US tax advisors to file annual US tax returns for the group; and
Ensure global compliance through reviewing and filing multijurisdiction VAT and sales and use tax returns; and
Perform controls testing on existing processes.
Manage external relationships with professional tax advisors and software providers:
Review all external work performed by external tax advisors; and
Reconcile outputs between integrated tax and accounting softwares; and
Maintain strong relationships with tax advisors and software providers, ensuring these meet the business needs in the most cost effective way.
Setup and manage documentation and policies around tax governance and compliance:
Challenge existing systems, processes and controls to ensure tax legislation is being correctly interpreted and followed; and
Create and implement policies for effective tax compliance; and
Write and maintain documentation on tax governance; and
Stay up to date on global tax legislation and report on key changes to the wider business.
Business partner with internal stakeholders:
Ensure that tax is a key focus area for business decisions, working alongside other business leaders to inform them of tax implications; and
Ensure that the business is set up to optimise for tax, where possible, rather than being seen as a blocker or a hindrance; and
Have an understanding of tax transformation, being able to partner with different disciplines to integrate softwares and implement crossfunctional processes.

Requirements:

We're a high-performance, open and honest team, always pushing to learn and develop.

We believe the right person for this role will:

Be an autonomous self starter: a self driven individual who sets and delivers against self set deadlines and creates their own structure without needing direction.
Be a confident decision maker: able and willing to find out the best solution and acts accordingly, taking the organisation's costs and benefits into account.
Enjoy being the expert: business partnering with a range of stakeholders from all functions and seniorities to provide the best advice to Lysters.
Create structure out of unstructure: can correctly prioritise multiple issues and opportunities whilst processing large amounts of data from disparate sources and can create robust and replicable frameworks, systems and processes from scratch.
Be resilient: a tenacious individual who keeps going when things are hard and doesn't give up easily;
Be optimistic: believes it's possible; an individual who tackles problems and t