Head of Tax

Peel Ports Group; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 150,000 - GBP 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in Liverpool seeks a Tax Strategy Lead to manage tax obligations and ensure compliance. You will be responsible for influencing commercial decisions while optimising the group’s tax position. The role requires significant experience in tax compliance and strong technical expertise in UK and international tax. The company values talent and offers a competitive salary along with flexible benefits, including a bonus and generous holiday allowances.

Benefits

27 days holiday per annum

Matched Contribution Pension Scheme up to 10%

Flexible benefits including healthcare cash plans and gyms

Commitment to learning and personal development

Qualifications

• Significant post‑qualification experience leading group‑wide tax compliance, reporting and governance.
• Experience advising on strategic tax matters such as M&A and restructuring.
• Ability to explain complex tax matters clearly to non‑specialists.

Responsibilities

• Lead tax function, manage risk, optimise efficiency and ensure governance.
• Support commercial and strategic decision‐making while safeguarding tax position.
• Report at executive level within a dynamic, multi-entity environment.

Skills

Ability to influence senior stakeholders

Strong technical expertise in UK and international tax

Proactive, solution-focused mindset

Extensive leadership experience

Education

Chartered Accountant (ACA/ACCA) or Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA)

Job description

Are you ready to lead tax strategy and governance for a fast-growing, complex organisation? This opportunity offers strategic leadership, technical challenge and influence across a diverse, multi-entity group.

Your Role

In this role, you will take full responsibility for managing the Group’s tax obligations and ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation. Operating as our in‑house corporate tax expert, you will support commercial and strategic decision‑making while safeguarding the Group’s tax position.

You will set Group’s tax, ensuring compliance, risk management and good governance across all taxes, influencing commercial and strategic decision‑making while safeguarding and optimising the Group’s tax position.

Working closely with the CFO, Finance, Legal and operational stakeholders, you will lead the tax function, manage risk, optimise efficiency and ensure robust governance. Reporting at executive level, this role offers significant influence within a dynamic, multi-entity environment and the opportunity to shape strategic projects.

What you’ll bring

You will be a Chartered Accountant (ACA/ACCA) or Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) with extensive leadership experience and will have:

• Significant post‑qualification experience leading group‑wide tax compliance, reporting and governance across complex, multi‑entity structures in an in‑house environment
• Strong technical expertise in UK and international tax, including transfer pricing, CbC reporting and evolving areas such as Pillar Two
• Experience advising on strategic tax matters such as M&A, restructuring, funding and commercial initiatives
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and explain complex tax matters clearly to non‑specialists
• Proactive, solution‑focused mindset with sound judgement and professional curiosity

Who are we?

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator. We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers. Our investments are decarbonising our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040. Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What we can offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers. Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• 27 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
• Matched Contribution Pension Scheme up to 10%
• Bonus
• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, critical illness insurance, gyms, retail vouchers
• Commitment to learning and personal development
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our employee assistance programme when required

If you believe you have the skills and experience we are seeking and you want to join a thriving and ambitious place to work, we’d really like to hear from you!