Senior Direct Tax Manager

Job Description

Working in one of our corporate functions you'll be supporting the business to deliver their priorities and objectives. Whether you're in Enterprise IT, Finance, Governance & Legal Affairs, Human Resources or Strategy & Corporate Affairs, you'll be contributing to Helping Britain Achieve Net Zero. We understand our business needs and provide specialist advice and knowledge to mitigate risk and maximise success.

We are exemplar and act with integrity in a challenging but rewarding environment.

• The role sits within the tax team of the Corporate Finance function, which supports EDF UK's varied Business Units. The Tax team is responsible for delivering EDF UK's tax strategy by managing relationships with government and regulators, ensuring compliance across the business, and acting as a trusted business partner to stakeholders.
• Working closely with other corporate functions, the team plays a key role in supporting EDF's mission as Britain's largest generator of zero‑carbon electricity.
• You'll report to the Head of Direct Tax and will be responsible for managing 2 direct reports.

• You'll provide effective leadership to the Direct Tax team by setting clear direction, leading by example, and developing and motivating your team.
• You'll build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders, including the EDF SA Tax team, external advisors, HMRC, and key contacts across multiple Business Units.
• You'll work with the Head of Direct Tax and the Tax Director to manage EDF UK's day‑to‑day relationship with HMRC. This includes anticipating and responding to enquiries, negotiating tax computations, and constructively challenging HMRC's interpretation of legislation where it adversely impacts EDF UK – always striving for the best possible tax outcomes.
• You'll work closely with the wider family of EDF businesses providing tax support to existing tax functions within the business or providing those businesses with tax support. Specifically, you'll provide transaction support to the business, liaising with advisers for delivery of due diligence and tax structuring on transactions.
• You'll have responsibility with the Head of Direct tax for the reporting of cross‑group taxes across the EDF wider business – for example, CIR, Pillar 2, and Energy Generation Levy.
• You'll deliver clear, commercially‑focused advice to the Head of Direct Tax, Corporate Finance, and Business Units on the impact of existing and new tax legislation, as well as on major investments, divestments, restructures, and other complex transactions – ensuring alignment with tax efficiency and business objectives.
• You'll manage UK tax planning, budgeting, forecasting, and outturn reporting of all direct tax numbers for a business that globally generates 467.6 TWh of electricity.
• You'll ensure the timely and accurate production of tax figures and information for statutory accounts, and the submission of corporation tax computations.
• You'll manage the tax compliance process, ensuring the timely and accurate preparation and submission of tax computations.
• You'll drive the implementation of EDF UK's bespoke tax reporting and compliance software to streamline and automate the compliance and reporting process.
• You'll review and enhance corporate tax reporting processes, identifying opportunities for improvement and embedding effective procedures and internal controls.
• Alongside the Head of Direct Tax, you'll manage and mitigate tax risk.

• To be successful in this role, you'll bring strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to manage, motivate, and build relationships across the business.
• You'll be a qualified Chartered Accountant or Tax Adviser, with significant post‑qualification experience in UK corporation tax, ideally gained in a large business or professional services firm, covering advisory, reporting and compliance.
• You're committed to health, safety, wellbeing and the environment, and carry out your role in a manner that enables us to be a sustainable business – financially, environmentally and socially.

• Location for this role is flexible with…