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Indirect Tax Analyst
Indirect Tax Analyst
Location: Wigmore Street, London + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74040
About the Role
Shape Financial Integrity in a Role That Protects Critical National Operations
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Indirect Tax Analyst at either Wigmore Street, London or Portsmouth.
The role: As an Indirect Tax Analyst, you’ll play a key role in ensuring Babcock meets its indirect tax and compliance obligations across a complex, global organisation. Supporting the Indirect Tax Manager and Head of Indirect Tax, you’ll help drive accuracy, consistency, and continuous improvement in tax processes that underpin vital defence, aerospace, and engineering programmes.
This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career in a high-impact finance and tax environment, where your expertise contributes directly to responsible business operations and compliance at scale. Day-to-day, you’ll gain exposure to a wide range of tax matters while working collaboratively across finance, procurement, and operational teams.
Responsibilities
- Preparing and reviewing:
- Value Added Tax (VAT)
- Construction Industry Scheme (CIS)
- PAYE Settlement Agreement returns
- Ensuring all tax returns are completed and submitted accurately and on time across the business
- Supporting the development and standardisation of tax processes, procedures, and documentation
- Building relationships across the organisation to embed strong tax compliance and awareness
- Identifying and implementing improvements to systems, controls, and tax reporting processes
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This role operates full time (37.5 hours per week) and provides hybrid working arrangements, requiring an office presence once a month or based on project requirements.
Requirements
Essential Experience and Skills
- Demonstrating experience within an indirect tax or tax compliance role
- Ability to apply knowledge of cross-border indirect tax rules for goods and services
- Understanding of core financial and accounting principles
- Analysing data and interpreting tax regulations to provide clear insights
- Managing multiple priorities and solving problems in a fast-paced environment
Qualifications
- Either hold or be working towards/willing to work towards a relevant professional qualification such as:
- ACA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)
- ACCA (Chartered Accountants)
- CTA (Chartered Tax Adviser)
- AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard)/Security Check (SC) clearance for this role.
Due to security and Trade Control restrictions, eligibility for this role may be affected by nationality or past residential history. For further details, visit: United Kingdom Security Vetting: Clearance Levels.
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Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- 10 days special paid leave for Reservists in the armed forces
- Satisfactory invitation (*holiday buying & trading).
- ‘Be Kind Day’ – one working day’s paid leave to support a chosen charity
- Flexible working arrangements for better work-life balance
About Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to the final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services essential to national security and public infrastructure.
We call that lifetime engineering. Join us and see how far we can go, together.
Commitment to Diversity & Flexibility
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application or selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header: "Reasonable adjustments requirement."
We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We’re happy to discuss alternative working patterns – please ask at interview.
Closing date: 09/07/2026
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