e-Invoicing and Peppol Lead

e-Invoicing and Peppol Lead

Gerrards Cross - Hybrid

Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?

Who are we?

We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle.

If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.

We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Purpose

The role holder will oversee our regulatory compliance strategy across the United Kingdom, EU and internationally, and will be required to:

• Support internal developments
• Engage in and represent the interests of Causeway within external activities that support our commercial and internal solution objectives
• Review compliance within customer services and highlight any issues at both a customer or solution level

This is a pivotal role responsible for ensuring our e-invoicing, Peppol, and digital tax compliance solutions remain aligned with evolving regulatory frameworks, including:

• UK e-Invoicing reforms and future mandate requirements
• Ireland's B2G and future B2B e-Invoicing obligations
• EU ViDA (VAT in the Digital Age)
• Peppol specifications and interoperability requirements
• EN16931 and Peppol BIS standards
• National Continuous Transaction Control (CTC) mandates
• Country-specific clearance, reporting and e-reporting models
• Emerging digital VAT and real-time reporting requirements

Additionally, they will act as the organisation's regulatory subject matter expert, advising executive leadership, product management, engineering, operations, and customers on compliance risks, opportunities and implementation priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Regulatory Monitoring & Intelligence

• Monitor and interpret existing and emerging compliance requirements relating to:

o E-Invoicing Mandates
▪ UK e-Invoicing policy and HMRC initiatives
▪ Other National e-Invoicing mandates across EU member states, including the Irish Revenue requirements

o VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA) requirements
▪ European Commission ViDA legislation
▪ National ViDA implementation rules

o Peppol
▪ Governance and compliance
▪ Specifications and standards

o HMRC and other Tax Authority Requirements
▪ Digital reporting requirements (DRR)
▪ CTC / DRC / Authenticated Receipts processing
▪ VAT reporting obligations including e-reporting, clearance, approved supplier status, etc.

• Maintain a regulatory roadmap highlighting upcoming legislative changes and implementation deadlines.
• Assess the commercial and operational impact of regulatory changes.
• Produce executive briefings, compliance reports and regulatory updates.

Peppol Governance & Network Compliance

• Own the organisation's Peppol compliance framework.
• Ensure continued compliance with:

o OpenPeppol requirements
o Peppol Authority obligations
o Access Point certification requirements
o SMP requirements (where applicable)
o Peppol BIS document specifications

• Coordinate certification, audits and annual compliance reviews.
• Participate in relevant Peppol working groups, forums and industry bodies.
• Manage relationships with OpenPeppol, Peppol Authorities and national administrations.

Product Compliance

• Work with Product, Data and Engineering teams to translate regulatory requirements into product capabilities / designs.
• Define compliance requirements for:

o Invoice formats
o Validation rules
o Digital reporting
o Clearance workflows
o Archiving requirements
o Electronic signatures where applicable

• Ensure product releases meet regulatory requirements before deployment.
• Establish compliance testing and validation procedures.
• Monitor and report on compliance levels within customer services and flag risks, actions and likely causes to support maintaining compliance across customer services.

ViDA Programme Leadership

• Lead our interpretation, planning and requirements definitions in meeting EU ViDA regulations.
• Develop a strategic roadmap covering:

o Digital Reporting Requirements (DRR)
o Intra-community transaction reporting
o Structured e-invoice requirements
o Interoperability obligations

• Assess and advise internal stakeholders on ViDA implementation impacts on our customers and our products.

Compliance Risk Management

• Maintain the company's e-Invoicing compliance risk register.
• Identify any emerging regulatory risks and propose mitigation strategies.
• Support internal compliance audit and governance processes.
• Manage compliance-related incidents and remediation activities.
• Ensure appropriate compliance controls are embedded within products and internal operational processes.

Customer & Market Engagement

• Act as a customer-facing compliance expert in support of sales and customer engagements.
• Support sales and account management teams to understand and communicate compliance requirements and product services that allow us to deliver against these requirements.
• Be able to deliver webinars, customer briefings and market commentary where required as a subject matter expert.
• Represent the organisation at conferences and industry events.
• Create whitepapers, compliance guides and thought leadership content.

Key Skills, Experience and Qualifications

Essential

• Minimum 3 years' experience in Peppol Access Point operations, plus at least two other areas from: e-Invoicing, VAT compliance, international VAT rules, digital tax compliance, or e reporting/ Continuous Transaction Controls (CTC).
• Good understanding of the Peppol Network, Peppol BIS Billing specifications, EN16931, XML and structured invoicing standards, Access Point operations, and SMP/SML architecture.
• Good understanding of electronic procurement networks, European and UK VAT frameworks, and CTC and clearance models.
• Minimum 3 years' industry experience with a Peppol Access Point provider, plus at least two other areas from: e-Invoicing service providers, FinTech, AP/AR automation vendors, tax technology vendors, ERP providers, or regulatory/consulting firms.
• Demonstrated ability to work with product teams, engineers and architects, data services, senior leadership, regulators, industry bodies, and customers and partners.

Desirable

• Degree in Business, Finance, Tax, Law, Technology or a related discipline.
• VAT, tax or regulatory compliance qualification.
• OpenPeppol experience.
• Experience supporting multi-country e-Invoicing rollouts.
• Knowledge of France's PDP/PPF framework, Germany e-Invoicing requirements, Belgium mandatory e-Invoicing, Poland KSeF, Italy SDI, or Ireland e-Invoicing programmes.

Our Values

We are United. As part of a team, we’re better together.

We are Agile. Be the change, we’re on a journey.

We are Trusted. Do the right thing, we own this.

We are Driven. Get stuck in, we make it happen.

Benefits

As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars.

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.

• 4% matched pension.

• Income protection and life assurance.

• Access to our award-winning benefits platform.

• We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.

• £100 allowance towards a fitness club.

• Dell discounts.

• Private Medical Insurance.

• Paid study leave + volunteering days.

• Car Scheme.

Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.