Head of Employment Tax
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 week ago
Job Title: Head of Employment Tax
Salary: £75,300-£100,800 per annum
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
A vacancy has arisen for a Head of Employment Tax, based in Cambridge, to join our well-established in-house tax team.
Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Which is why every year, we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success. We give people the opportunity to show what they've learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.
We achieve this by embracing change and continuously focusing on our customers' needs. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding newer and better ways of doing things.
About The Role
Reporting to the Global Tax Director, the Head of Employment Tax will have responsibility for leading the business' approach to UK and international employment tax issues. This includes demonstrated expertise to drive the development of strategy; contributing to business policies (within and beyond the tax team); and continuous development of processes and/or checks to ensure consistency in the way we approach employment tax issues.
The role will oversee an Employment Tax Manager and, working as a team, will liaise with payroll, people/reward and legal functions at a senior level to manage and promote awareness of tax issues and changes.
Key areas of responsibility are outlined below.
Employment Status of Contingent Workers
About You
You will be a leader and expert in employment tax (preferred) and/or global mobility tax issues. You will have demonstrated ability to brief and influence stakeholders at all levels on employment tax/mobility matters, clearly articulating complex issues and their impact on business approach.
You will have an understanding of operating practices that would be required by an international group, such that you can lead or support business-wide strategy and policy. You may also act as a link between other business areas to identify risks and empower solutions.
Specifically, you will have:
We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.
Rewards And Benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 21 June 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place on a rolling basis. If successful at the 1st interview, you may be asked to attend a 2nd round interview as well.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
Salary: £75,300-£100,800 per annum
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
A vacancy has arisen for a Head of Employment Tax, based in Cambridge, to join our well-established in-house tax team.
Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Which is why every year, we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success. We give people the opportunity to show what they've learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.
We achieve this by embracing change and continuously focusing on our customers' needs. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding newer and better ways of doing things.
About The Role
Reporting to the Global Tax Director, the Head of Employment Tax will have responsibility for leading the business' approach to UK and international employment tax issues. This includes demonstrated expertise to drive the development of strategy; contributing to business policies (within and beyond the tax team); and continuous development of processes and/or checks to ensure consistency in the way we approach employment tax issues.
The role will oversee an Employment Tax Manager and, working as a team, will liaise with payroll, people/reward and legal functions at a senior level to manage and promote awareness of tax issues and changes.
Key areas of responsibility are outlined below.
Employment Status of Contingent Workers
- Monitoring, identifying, and signing off employment status reviews, including issuing Status Determination Statements for PSC contractors
- Managing business queries and challenges on contractor status, point of escalation for status challenges/appeals factoring in business criticality
- Play a leading cross-business role in the development of strategy and policy, along with the design and improvement of existing systems
- Maintaining awareness of evolving tax case law in this area
- Rolling awareness and education of business stakeholders
- Long-term review of approach to the engagement of Examination Specialists
- Lead tax discussions regarding business and personal mobility requests including the transition of role or individuals overseas for temporary or permanent moves
- Liaison with people, legal, tax, payroll, and finance to ensure smooth operation of mobility requests and management of risks
- Monitoring of mobility policy and processes in line with continued expansion of global footprint of business
- Continued monitoring of mobile employees to ensure ongoing compliance, including tax, social security, short-term overseas visitation, short-term business visitor reporting
- Engagement of advisors, where required, to ensure advice appropriate advice is sought, relevant to the facts of each individual case
- Annual PAYE settlement agreement (PSA) reporting
- Oversight of p11d reporting
- Monitoring the tax treatment of employee benefits benefit (UK and International)
- US reporting, including form 1099 reporting
- Assistance with termination/settlement agreements
About You
You will be a leader and expert in employment tax (preferred) and/or global mobility tax issues. You will have demonstrated ability to brief and influence stakeholders at all levels on employment tax/mobility matters, clearly articulating complex issues and their impact on business approach.
You will have an understanding of operating practices that would be required by an international group, such that you can lead or support business-wide strategy and policy. You may also act as a link between other business areas to identify risks and empower solutions.
Specifically, you will have:
- Significant experience in employment taxes/or global mobility taxation
- Professional tax or accounting qualification (CTA or similar), or similar knowledge demonstrated by experience.
- Knowledge of latest developments in employment status and/or international tax issues impacting international mobility
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects or workstreams, and to work to demanding deadlines in a complex environment
- Ability to build relationships across all levels of the organisation, including with senior stakeholders
- Excellent organisational skills. You will be self-motivated individual, who is able to manage and co-ordinate multiple assignments
We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.
Rewards And Benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 21 June 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place on a rolling basis. If successful at the 1st interview, you may be asked to attend a 2nd round interview as well.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
