Tax Specialist
The Tax Specialist will support William Hill’s tax compliance and reporting obligations, with primary responsibility for gaming tax, VAT, local taxes, account reconciliations, and other statutory requirements.
The successful candidate will work closely with other teams and stakeholders within the FSSC and Group Finance.
- Prepare, review, and coordinate accurate and timely gaming tax, VAT, local tax, and other statutory filings and payments.
- Perform tax account reconciliations and investigate and resolve identified reconciling items.
- Maintain complete and accurate supporting schedules, working papers, tax records, and documentary requirements.
- Monitor statutory filing and payment deadlines to ensure full and timely compliance.
- Assist with tax audits and information requests from the tax government bodies and other regulatory authorities.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders to collect, validate, and reconcile financial and operational data required for tax filings.
- Identify potential tax exposures, control gaps, and process issues, and escalate them promptly to management.
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end tax-related financial close tasks, reporting, and related tax compliance requirements.
- Maintain tax process documentation, standard operating procedures, compliance calendars, and internal control records.
- Support tax process standardization, automation, and continuous-improvement initiatives across the FSSC.
- Assist with tax-related projects and other responsibilities assigned by the FSSC COE Tax Tower Lead.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy, Finance, or a related field (required).
- CPA qualification (preferred).
- At least three years of experience in Philippine tax compliance, tax accounting, and VAT (required).
- Experience delivering accurate and timely tax compliance activities across multiple entities within a shared services/service delivery environment (required).
- Experience with tax and financial audit support, and documentation requirements (required).
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (required).
- Experience with ERP and tax filing systems (required).
- Oracle experience (preferred).
- Ability to standardize processes, monitor service levels, resolve issues, and support continuous improvement (required).
- Strong analytical, organisational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to meet strict statutory deadlines (required).
- Competitive salary and bonus schemes.
- Hybrid working: employees can work from home up to 40% of the time with 60% of office time.
- 30 days leave on an annual basis, and an extra day for your birthday.
- Tools and services to help support well-being, including support with mental health and financial education.
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits.
William Hill is one of the UK's best-known bookmakers, founded by its namesake in 1934 taking bets around Birmingham. It has since grown into an international, multi-brand betting and gaming business spanning online and retail. The company is now part of evoke plc (formerly 888 Holdings), one of the world's leading online betting and gaming groups. Headquartered in London, William Hill operates sports betting and gaming products across multiple markets.