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ABOUT VOLTA
Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.
About the Role
We are seeking a commercially minded Senior Manager to join Volta's tax function and lead delivery on deals, structuring, and modelling. This role would suit someone looking to move in-house at a fast-scaling, capital-intensive platform.
Reporting to the VP of Tax, this is a hands-on delivery role. The Senior Manager will lead deal workstreams, build and stress-test tax models, and monitor governance to ensure tax structures are operating as intended with genuine scope for the remit to grow as the function and business scale.
Key Responsibilities
Deal Execution & Structuring
- Lead the day-to-day tax workstream on live transactions - fundraising and capital raises, infrastructure investments and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing and refinancing.
- Execute the technical analysis and implementation of tax structures agreed with the VP of Tax, across corporate entities, investments/JVs, and debt and equity financing.
- Coordinate tax due diligence, documentation and completion mechanics with Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate Development, Legal and external advisers.
- Review commercial contracts and financing documentation from a tax perspective, flagging issues and options to the VP of Tax.
- Bring forward clear recommendations on technical questions, with the commercial and risk trade-offs spelled out, for the VP of Tax to decide.
Tax Modelling & Commercial Analysis
- Own the build and maintenance of tax models and supporting schedules for investments, financing structures and transactions.
- Model cash-tax outcomes and sensitivities, including:
- Tax depreciation and capital allowances
- Interest deductibility and financing scenarios
- Loss utilisation and group relief
- Withholding taxes, repatriation and transfer-pricing charges
- VAT and other indirect-tax cash flows
- Restructuring, refinancing and exit scenarios
- Feed agreed tax assumptions into the wider financial models, working closely with Finance and Capital Markets.
- Pressure-test tax assumptions prepared by internal teams and advisers for technical accuracy and consistency.
- Translate the tax impact into terms deal teams can use directly – cash flow, valuation and investor returns.
International Tax
- Provide occasional support to the compliance team as needed, covering gaps or peak periods across the tax compliance calendar.
- Stay broadly aware of the transfer-pricing policy, permanent-establishment position, withholding-tax/repatriation mechanics and VAT/GST processes, escalating anything relevant from deal or modelling work to the team who owns it.
- Flag material international tax developments relevant to live deals or models.
Governance & Risk
- Help operate Volta's tax governance framework and controls on a day-to-day basis and keep the tax risk register current.
- Build and maintain supporting documentation for tax positions, transactions and intercompany arrangements.
- Manage the working relationship with Big Four and legal advisers on live matters, escalating scope, cost or quality issues.
- Support tax authority enquiries, audits and ruling applications.
Business Partnering
- Act as the day-to-day tax contact for Finance, Legal, Capital Markets, Corporate Development and Strategy on live workstreams.
- Give practical, timely tax input on new projects and initiatives, translated into cash flow, returns and capital-efficiency impact.
- Prepare materials and analysis for the VP of Tax ahead of CFO, leadership, investor and lender conversations.
- Take ownership of agreed workstreams end-to-end, escalating judgement calls and anything strategically significant to the VP of Tax.
Process & Team Support
- Help the VP of Tax roll out new processes, controls and systems as the function scales.
- Manage or mentor junior tax analyst/associates as the team grows.
- Identify opportunities for automation and standardisation in day-to-day tax processes and modelling.
About You
Experience & Qualifications
- Strong relevant tax experience, typically Big Four Senior Manager to Associate Director level, or the in-house equivalent – someone used to executing complex cross-border deals rather than only advising on them.
- Professional qualification: CTA, ACA, CA or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience structuring cross-border investments and financing.
- Solid technical grounding in international corporate tax – transfer pricing, withholding taxes, permanent establishment and tax-treaty matters.
- Proven tax-modelling ability, comfortable translating technical rules into cash-flow, valuation and investor-return outputs.
- Experience coordinating multi-jurisdiction compliance and external advisers.
Skills & Attributes
- Execution-focused and detail-oriented, with good judgement about what to escalate and when.
- Comfortable owning a workstream end-to-end while operating within a strategy set by someone else.
- Strong project-management skills, coordinating multiple internal and external stakeholders at once.
- A clear communicator, able to explain complex tax positions to non-tax audiences.
- Pragmatic and collaborative, energised by building good process in a fast-moving environment.
Desirable Experience
- Background in private equity, infrastructure funds, real assets, energy or digital infrastructure.
- Time in a start-up or rapidly scaling international organisation.
- Exposure to data centres or other capital-intensive infrastructure businesses.
- Familiarity with UK, European and US tax environments.
- Experience with tax accounting, provisions and cash-tax forecasting.
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WHAT WE OFFER
At Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of. As a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.
- Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary
- Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success
- Retirement/pension contributions
- Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits
- Generous number of vacation days each year
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Background Checks
All offers of employment at Volta are conditional on the satisfactory completion of pre-employment screening, which includes confirmation of your right to work, verification of your employment history and a criminal record check, where this is permitted by local law. Screening is carried out by Zinc, an accredited third-party provider, after an offer is made and all information is handled confidentially and in accordance with applicable data protection law.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Volta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.
ACCESSIBILITY
Volta is committed to providing an accessible recruitment experience for all candidates. If you require accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected]. We will work with you to identify reasonable accommodations that enable you to participate fully in the hiring process.
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