Manager, Tax Service – EMEA
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 24, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 31, 2026. Haleon scores A on the Alion truth index.
Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter - one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.
Our trusted portfolio of brands - including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® - lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.
Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose - to deliver better everyday health with humanity - at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Tax Service Team Lead to lead a global team responsible for delivering critical tax operational services, tax master data management, SAP tax configuration, and continuous process improvement initiatives. This role sits at the intersection of Tax, Finance, Technology, and Operations, requiring both strong technical tax expertise and people leadership capabilities.
You will be responsible for ensuring the effective delivery of business-as-usual (BAU) tax processes, supporting tax-related projects and compliance activities, driving data quality governance, and identifying opportunities to improve processes through automation and analytics.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the Tax Service Team, being a visible leader of the Team and overseeing engagement with multiple stakeholders across Tax, Finance, Tech and other business teams.
Actively lead and support other Tax Service team members to ensure delivery of their responsibilities and support their development. Be the first point of contact for escalations
Execute Tax operational activities per agreed framework and process. Key technical activities include SAP tax determination logic, including tax codes, tax types, condition tables, and system behaviour (e.g. overrides and TP log), ensuring consistency and scalability of solutions; updating Tax Master Data; and, delivery of other Tax processes such as Tax Reporting and Plastic Packaging Taxes.
Work with Indirect Tax, Trade Compliance and Trading Partner Finance Teams to update tax relevant data in SAP for Trade Route changes.
Own tax data quality governance by working with other Tax, Finance and our outsourced compliance provider teams, to identify, prioritise and deliver tax data quality enhancements. Also includes identification and remediation of incorrect or obsolete tax setups, as well as co-ordinating corrective actions to ensure audit readiness where data quality issues have arisen.
Handling tax process and transactions queries and routing the queries to correct resources for issue resolution, including Indirect Tax, GPO and Tech teams.
Supporting the Tax & Stats GPO in the implementation of tax law changes.
Identify and support implementing process improvement initiatives across Tax & Stat activities, including using Automation and Data & Analytics solutions (e.g. Alteryx, Power BI, Power Apps).
Required Qualifications & Experience
Degree in Accounting, Tax, Finance, or a related discipline.
Professional accounting and/or tax qualification preferred.
5 years of experience in Finance and Tax within an international environment.
Knowledge of indirect taxes and tax operational processes.
Demonstrated experience leading or developing teams.
Experience managing complex stakeholder relationships across multiple functions and geographies.
Hands-on experience with ERP systems and tax configuration, preferably SAP.
Proven ability to perform root cause analysis and drive sustainable process improvements.
Communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with complex international trade routes and multi-leg financial and physical flows.
Knowledge of automation and analytics tools such as Power BI, Alteryx, and Power Apps.
Experience driving data quality and governance initiatives.
Why Haleon?
Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies.
Hybrid work.
Attractive reward package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement).
Extensive support of work life balance (flexible working solutions including working from home possibilities, health & wellbeing activities).
Private medical care - the cost of the basic package is financed by Haleon. In addition, candidates can extend the selected package to family members and/or partner and purchase the Senior package.
P4P Partnership for Prevention.
Family benefits (extra parental leave, caregiver’s policy).
Life insurance and pension plan.
Multisport card or points on the Multicafeteria Benefits account.
Personalized learning approach.
Supportive community and integration events.
Modern office with creative rooms.
Free car and bike parking.
Job Posting End Date
2026-09-29Equal Opportunities
Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected - all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.
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