{"id":3887484,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sony-group-vat-expert","title":"VAT Expert","company":{"id":125,"name":"Sony Group","domain":"sony.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/sony-group","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":78,"open_postings":16,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.875,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":33,"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"}},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Weybridge, United Kingdom","Athens, Greece"],"countries":["GB","GR"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Office","optional":false},{"name":"Power BI","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-06T20:07:15Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-06","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T12:19:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"The VAT Expert is a senior subject matter expert responsible for end-to-end VAT compliance, ensuring accuracy, and technical excellence across indirect tax (VAT) obligations, while supporting digital tax reporting and e-invoicing requirements. The role provides technical VAT expertise, supports regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions, oversees the quality of outsourced activities, and drives continuous improvement in reporting and compliance processes.\nYou will:\nAct as the subject matter expert for VAT compliance across multiple jurisdictions, providing technical guidance to finance teams, business stakeholders and outsourced providers. \nOversee indirect tax compliance, reviewing and approve VAT returns, EC Sales Lists, Intrastat declarations and other filings, while advising on domestic and cross-border VAT treatment. \nOversee VAT accounting and reconciliations, ensuring VAT returns reconcile to underlying financial records and appropriate balance sheet controls are in place. \nSupport digital tax compliance, including e-invoicing, CTC, SAF-T, ViDA and real-time reporting requirements, ensuring accurate submissions and data integrity. \nMonitor changes in VAT legislation, digital tax reporting and regulatory requirements, assessing risks and implementing necessary compliance improvements. \nCoordinate VAT audits and regulatory enquiries, maintaining accurate reconciliations, supporting documentation and audit-ready records. \nContribute to ERP enhancements, tax technology implementations and finance transformation projects, including system testing, automation and digital reporting solutions. \nManage outsourced VAT compliance and digital reporting activities, reviewing deliverables, resolving technical issues and maintaining governance, internal controls and process documentation. \nPartner with Group Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Shared Service Centres and external advisors, supporting audits, coaching junior colleagues and driving continuous improvement, standardisation and best practices. \nYou will bring:\nMinimum education to degree level, holding either BSC/BS/BA and either qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or equivalent relevant experience. \nStrong experience in VAT, indirect tax and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions. \nGood understanding of domestic and cross-border VAT requirements. \nExperience working with BPO providers and Shared Service Centres. \nGood understanding of internal controls, financial governance and tax compliance controls, with experience operating or reviewing control frameworks. \nExperience with SAP S/4HANA and tax reporting solutions. \nAdvanced Microsoft Office skills are essential, particularly use of Excel including pivot tables, Power Bi and macros. \nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills. \nExcellent communication and stakeholder management abilities. \nDesirable:\nExperience with digital tax reporting (DIG), including e-invoicing, SAF-T, CTC regimes, ViDA and real-time reporting requirements. \nBased at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista-style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack, and a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between the train station and the office at peak times.\nTake a look at our video tour of the Weybridge site here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwbMOzjoVA\nLife at Sony\nWe ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.\nWe celebrate colleagues who make a real difference through our recognition platform. We provide access to services and platforms for wellbeing, listen to our people through conversations and surveys, and offer volunteering days so staff can support causes they care about.\nYou can build your career around you with our learning and personal development programmes, and explore opportunities in a wide range of countries with support from our mobility team.\nBring your uniqueness to Sony\nWe are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives who stimulate innovation and contribute to Sony’s purpose: “to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology”. Bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.\nWe are Sony Europe\nOur people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.\nWith offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contribute to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.\nBring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.\nEqual Opportunity\nSony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.\nDisability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe\nSony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individual with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at  or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, The Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.\nRecruitment Fraud Notice \nPlease be aware that unauthorised individuals or organisations may attempt to solicit personal information or payments from job applicants by impersonating our company through fraudulent job postings. While we take these matters seriously, we cannot control third-party websites. To protect your personal information, please verify that any job posting you respond to also appears on our official Sony Europe Career Portal. Please also be advised that we never request payment or personal financial information.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6886,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Film Production","Music Industry","Televisions","Digital Cameras & Photography"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-06T20:07:15Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":33,"reasons":["conf:4","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sony-group-vat-expert","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sony-group-vat-expert.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-08T19:29:54Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":40737,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-09T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":125},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=125"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsony-group-vat-expert"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsony-group-vat-expert"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsony-group-vat-expert"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/sony-group-vat-expert\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsony-group-vat-expert"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3887484}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"sony.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3887484},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}