UK Tax Accountant

Pinnacle Group Limited

Pinnacle Group is seeking an accomplished UK Tax Accountant to join our Finance Team on a 6-month fixed-term contract. This is an exciting opportunity to take the lead on a wide-ranging review of the Group’s tax position across approximately 20 statutory entities, with a strong emphasis on VAT compliance, controls, and process enhancement within a complex, high-volume environment.

Working closely with the Group Financial Controller, you will take ownership of the company’s UK tax obligations and play a central role in strengthening the business’s tax framework to support long-term financial resilience.

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About the Role

This position is ideal for a technically strong tax professional who thrives in fast-paced, multi-entity environments and has deep expertise in UK VAT. You will be responsible for reviewing current tax practices, improving controls, supporting compliance, and advising the wider business on VAT-related matters across a varied operational landscape.

The role is offered on a hybrid basis, with travel required to Holborn, London or Chelmsford, Essex.

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About Our Finance Team

Our Finance Team forms part of Central Services, delivering specialist support across the organisation. The team plays a vital role in ensuring the business operates efficiently, embraces best practice, and remains financially robust.

By joining Pinnacle Group, you will be contributing to a wider purpose: helping us deliver on our mission to Transform Communities and Change Lives.

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Who We Are

Pinnacle Group is a leading UK private sector provider of housing and neighbourhood services, supporting and maintaining the communities where people live, learn, work, and play.

We are a people-first organisation with a values-led culture that has remained consistent for over thirty years. These values shape how we work with both our colleagues and our customers every day.

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What You’ll Be Doing

As UK Tax Accountant, you will be entrusted with a broad and impactful remit across compliance, controls, governance, and advisory support.

Key responsibilities include:

• Preparing, reviewing, and submitting UK VAT returns, including:

• Group VAT matters

• Partial exemption calculations

• Capital Goods Scheme considerations

• Option-to-tax portfolio issues

• Domestic Reverse Charge matters within property and FM supply chains

• Owning and maintaining end-to-end digital links for Making Tax Digital (MTD), ensuring a clear and robust VAT control framework from source data through to submission

• Advising the wider business on VAT treatment relating to:

• Facilities services

• Recharges

• Property transactions and leases

• Apportionments

• Place of supply issues and other complex scenarios

• Identifying and reducing VAT leakage by analysing data for:

• Mis-codings

• Blocked input tax

• Error trends

• Recovery improvement opportunities

• Co-designing and delivering the annual tax controls testing plan, including walkthroughs and sample testing across VAT and other tax areas

• Managing remediation plans arising from audit findings and implementing preventive controls such as:

• Validation rules

• Segregation of duties

• Exception dashboards

• Maintaining the tax risk register, with clear likelihood and impact assessments, key risk indicators, and quarterly reporting to Finance leadership and Internal Audit

• Building strong reconciliations and reporting tools, including:

• General Ledger to VAT ledger reconciliations

• Exception reporting

• Analytical reviews

• Automation through Power Query and Power BI

• Championing data quality governance for tax-sensitive data fields such as VAT codes, supplier/customer classifications, and benefit categories

• Delivering training and guidance to Finance, HR, and Operations teams, helping colleagues understand tax requirements through practical playbooks and clear guidance notes

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What We’re Looking For

We are looking for a confident and experienced tax professional who combines strong technical capability with a practical, commercially aware mindset.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Significant UK VAT experience, with hands-on responsibility for filings, calculations, and controls across group structures

• Strong expertise in:

• Group VAT

• Partial exemption

• Property-related VAT

• Construction VAT, including CIS and the Domestic Reverse Charge

• In-house experience within a multisite, high-volume environment such as:

• Property

• Facilities management

• Outsourcing

• Logistics

• Or a similar sector

• A proven track record of reviewing and improving VAT policies, procedures, systems, and controls

• Experience providing tax advisory support on compliance-related matters

• Confidence in dealing directly with HMRC on VAT matters

• A relevant professional qualification, such as:

• CTA preferred

• Or ATT, ACA, or ACCA with a strong tax background

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Our Values

In addition to the technical requirements of the role, we are looking for someone who shares our core values and will help maintain the trust of our clients and communities.

We want someone who will live our values of:

• Trust

• Respect

• Involve

• Challenge

• Deliver Excellence

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What We Offer

At Pinnacle Group, we believe that a diverse workforce helps us better reflect and respond to the needs of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, particularly those who are underrepresented in the communities we support.

As part of our inclusive culture, you will have the opportunity to grow your career, reach your full potential, and benefit from ongoing learning and development.

Our benefits may include:

• Flexible working arrangements

• Enhanced pension scheme

• Life assurance

• Private medical insurance

• Additional annual leave

• Maternity and paternity packages

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Retail discounts

• Childcare assistance

• Season ticket loans

• Sick pay schemes

• Personal development plans

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Join Pinnacle Group

If you are an experienced VAT and tax professional looking for an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a complex and purpose-driven organisation, we would love to hear from you.

Join Pinnacle Group and help us build stronger financial foundations that support our mission to Transform Communities and Change Lives.