Aegon UK
Tax Manager
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Job Description
Tax Manager
Location
Edinburgh (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)
Salary
£58,480 - £87,720 (depending on the experience you can bring)
Closing date
8th October 2026
About the Role
We are looking for a Tax Manager to join our ambitious tax team in Edinburgh at an exciting time of change and development. This role offers a varied mix of business-as-usual responsibilities and involvement in key strategic projects.
Responsibilities
As the lead for Corporate Tax Reporting and Compliance, you will oversee corporate tax returns, manage relationships with HMRC, coordinate withholding tax reclaims, lead the Senior Accounting Officer certification process, and manage transfer pricing activities across the UK business. You will also monitor legislative changes, assess their impact on the organisation, and maintain a robust tax risk and controls framework to support ongoing compliance and governance.
Key responsibilities for the role include:
- Providing technical expertise on tax legislation and regulatory changes, ensuring accurate and timely tax reporting for internal and external stakeholders, including Group reporting, annual accounts and Solvency II returns.
- Delivering high-quality tax advice to the tax and wider finance teams, ensuring guidance is clear, accurate and provided within agreed timescales.
- Managing the corporate tax control framework and Senior Accounting Officer (SAO) requirements, ensuring tax risks are effectively identified, monitored and managed.
- Supporting the optimisation of the UK Group's tax position through the effective use of available tax reliefs and planning opportunities.
- Building strong relationships with key stakeholders across Finance, Group Tax and the wider business, as well as Internal Audit and Risk teams on tax controls and risk reporting.
- Identifying tax risks and ensuring robust policies, procedures and controls are in place to minimise risk and prevent recurrence of issues.
- Developing and maintaining effective relationships with HMRC, external auditors and tax advisers, ensuring compliance requirements are met and best practices are adopted.
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Requirements
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Strong technical expertise in UK tax legislation, with the ability to interpret complex tax matters and communicate them clearly to a range of stakeholders.
- Significant experience advising on Corporate or Withholding taxes, ideally within the Financial Services or Insurance sector.
- Excellent working knowledge of UK Tax legislation, HMRC guidance and procedures and relevant tax developments impacting the insurance industry.
- A proven ability to build relationships, influence and engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong communication skills, with experience presenting complex technical information in a clear and practical manner.
- The ability to analyse complex information, identify key issues and drive actions through to successful resolution.
- Strong commercial awareness and financial acumen, with an understanding of how tax considerations support wider business objectives.
- Experience working directly with HMRC, external advisers and auditors.
- A track record of promoting tax objectives and providing input into cross-functional and multi-disciplinary projects.
- Good working knowledge of IT systems and the ability to leverage technology to support tax processes and reporting.
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Benefits
What’s in it for you?
- Enhanced pension scheme with a 9% employer contribution and up to 20% total contribution.
- A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance.
- 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time).
- Private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave, and a variety of lifestyle benefits including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.
The Legal Bits
We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.
Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.
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