The Direct Tax Manager plays a critical role in delivering ASOSs global direct tax agenda. Operating as a senior individual contributor, the role has responsibility for direct tax compliance and reporting, supports the development of ASOSs tax and transfer pricing strategy, ensures accurate IFRSbased tax accounting, and provides highquality tax insight and advice to Finance and the wider business. The role also contributes to ASOSs tax transformation initiatives, helping modernise processes and improve data integrity across the tax lifecycle.
The Details
Sitting within the Tax team, the role is responsible for the endtoend management of direct tax compliance, reporting and risk management across the UK and overseas. This includes working closely with external advisors on the preparation and submission of tax returns and transfer pricing documentation, ensuring accurate IFRS tax reporting and disclosures, providing technical support on business initiatives, and supporting tax authority enquiries.
The role partners extensively with Finance to ensure correct reporting of tax balances, and with Tax Transformation to design and embed futurefit processes. It also works with wider business teams to ensure initiatives are appropriately assessed and implemented from a direct tax and transfer pricing perspective.
Direct Tax Compliance & Reporting
- Oversee the preparation and submission of UK and overseas direct tax returns (and associated returns), working with advisors and preparing filings in-house where appropriate.
- Ensure accurate endtoend tax accounting under IFRS, including tax disclosures, direct tax balance sheet reconciliations and data integrity of underlying information.
- Prepare highquality tax papers, forecasts, and insights for the CFO and Audit Committee.
Transfer Pricing & International Tax
- Work with advisors on transfer pricing strategy, documentation and implementation.
- Provide technical input on crossborder business initiatives, permanent establishment risk and structural changes.
Business Partnering & Advisory
- Partner with commercial, finance, wider tax and operational teams to assess tax implications of business initiatives, ensuring risks and opportunities are identified and appropriately managed.
- Provide clear, practical advice that supports decisionmaking and value creation.
Tax Risk Management & Governance
- Identify potential tax risks and cash saving opportunities, leading initiatives to manage or realise these.
- Manage communications with HMRC and overseas tax authorities.
- Support external auditors by providing timely and accurate documentation.
Process Improvement & Transformation
- Collaborate with Tax Transformation and the broader Tax team to identify, design, and implement improvements to direct tax processes, controls, data flows and reporting.
- Contribute to ASOSs broader tax modernisation agenda, helping build scalable, futurefit compliance and reporting frameworks.
Culture & Ways of Working
- Supporting our culture by championing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.
We believe being together in person helps us move faster, connect more deeply, and achieve more as a team. Thats why our approach to working together includes spending at least 3 days a week in the office. Its a rhythm that speeds up decision-making, helps ASOSers learn from each other more quickly, and builds the kind of culture where people can grow, create, and succeed.