The company
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced VAT professional to join a prestigious, reputable banking group on a permanent basis. Our client is internationally recognised and respected within industry and would provide exposure to an excellent opportunity for candidates.
You will be accountable for the following:
1. Management and team building
* Manage the relationship with Tax and Finance staff who complete and file indirect tax returns in the local jurisdictions within the region.
* Identify and ensure regular contact is maintained with key business and function heads in the region.
* Utilise, develop and implement systems and processes to capture, manage and distribute up-to-date indirect tax knowledge and information.
2. Business support:
* Provide indirect tax advice to the front office and support functions.
* Liaise with external advisors as required, review and challenge that advice where necessary.
* Review and sign-off new Projects, Products, and Structured Transactions.
3. Tax planning:
* Advise on and devise indirect tax mitigation strategies.
* Review and advise on the indirect tax aspects of corporate transactions.
* Advising on the indirect tax aspects of transfer pricing arrangements.
4. Risk and Compliance:
* To manage the indirect tax compliance for all entities within the region, and where necessary review the returns prior to filing.
* To maintain and enhance the SAO obligations for Indirect taxes.
* Develop and implement effective indirect tax risk management controls in line with Tax risk policies.
* Carry out compliance visits to Countries within the region on a regular basis.
* Ensure changes required as a result of new regulations are implemented throughout the region.
5. Ad-hoc
* To represent the Bank on local industry groups.
* Assist with special projects as required.
Requirements
The candidate should have a financial services indirect tax background and be working in a Bank's in-house tax department. They should be qualified ATII, CTA or equivalent with substantial proven and relevant post qualification indirect tax experience.
In view of the need to interact with different areas of the bank, the candidate should possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be able to develop and maintain effective working relationships. The candidate must be capable of working largely under their own initiative and posses outstanding organisational skills.
Required Competencies
1. Deliver Results - Effectively manage your time and resources to ensure that objectives are achieved and projects are delivered on time.
2. Business Knowledge - Understand the Banks business and the environment in which it operates.
3. Indirect Tax Knowledge - A strong tax technical background is required with exposure to Indirect Taxes in a number of jurisdictions.
4. Risk Management - Identify and manage indirect tax risk. Develop and implement risk measurement systems, processes and policies.
5. Building Relationships - Develop and maintain effective working relationships, networks and partnerships with stakeholders and team members.
6. People Management - Develop the team and encourage them to seek innovative approaches to problems and opportunities. Enable change and contribute to the effective functioning of the virtual team.
7. Personal Competencies
- Proactive: apply creative solutions and seek to pre-empt problems.
- Problem solving: identify and work through challenges.
- Live the values: Integrate the Bank's core values into your actions at every level.
The candidate should be a team player, a good communicator, particularly with staff who are not VAT aware, be professional and methodical in their approach to their work and be able to manage a wide variety of projects.We request applications to be submitted in a word format only.
Pure Recruitment Group Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. Pure Recruitment Group Limited aims to promote diversity and equal opportunity through its work - we monitor and evaluate our performance on a regular basis.
Please note our advertisements use PQE levels purely as a guide to the minimum level of experience that we anticipate will be needed to fulfil the position. However, we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role and they will be considered on an equal basis.
Pure Taxation was established in 1999 as part of the Pure Recruitment Group. Rather than imitate existing providers of tax recruitment consultancy, we sought to create a new methodology based on quality, relationships and integrity. Since then, Pure Taxation has become market leader in the UK because of our approach to recruitment and the excellence of our experienced consultants, making us a profitable business every year since inception.
Our current team comprises of 16 specialist consultants in London and Hong Kong focusing on permanent tax recruitment in the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions, three specialists in interim tax recruitment and four dedicated support and research staff, making us the largest dedicated tax recruiter in the UK.
