Make an impact working for this leading global financial services company. Working as part of the International Tax and Deferred Compensation team, you will take responsibility for providing executive compensation and tax services within the wider reward team on an EMEA basis. You will be joining an established team of individuals who are all experts in their chosen field and be given the support to continue developing your career. Your existing reward experience will be put to good use in this challenging role as you undertake a variety of responsibilities. This position is newly created role which means that you will not be stepping into anyone else's shoes so you will be able to really make a difference. Whether you currently work within practice or in an in-house capacity, this could be the ideal role for you if you are ready for a new challenge and have the drive to succeed.
The role
This key appointment will see you undertake the following responsibilities:
* Evaluating compensation practices against regulatory developments. This will include keeping up to date with UK regulatory issues and monitoring and assisting with the implementation and compliance with the UK regulators as necessary whilst maintaining the organisations approach to regulatory issues. This will also involve working closely with the wider Reward team and other internal stakeholders i.e. Risk & Compliance, Legal, and in particular the NY Corporate Compensation Team.
* Keeping abreast of regional regulatory issues and monitoring and assisting with implementation and compliance with local legislative requirements as necessary in line with the organisations approach to regulatory issues.
* Providing project management support for the UK year end compensation offering (Select ) which is a motivation and retention tool within the variable benefits offering to senior individuals. This includes knowledge of trusts, offshore pension arrangements, equity and deferred compensation arrangements. This will also include liaison with consultants, trustees and internal stakeholders e.g. Finance and Corporate Tax
* Exploring the feasibility of implementing additional reward initiatives under the Select platform considering changes to UK tax/pensions legislation for use as a motivational and retention tool within the variable benefits offering aimed at senior individuals.
* Working with EMEA countries in order to understand local issues and support local executive compensation initiatives. Exploring opportunities to leverage tax favourable reward arrangements in different tax jurisdictions across the region.
* Provide additional tax support across the International Tax & Deferred Compensation team as required.
* Providing support in respect of the Total Compensation tool from a regional perspective.
* Mergers, acquisitions or divestitures: provide support and advice in relation to all Reward issues including equity compensation and deferred compensation strategy.
About you
To succeed, the ideal candidate will have:
* ATT qualified (or equivalent) with significant reward tax experience.
* Knowledge of UK and global regulatory issues.
* Knowledge of the management of deferral programs, with a detailed understanding of employment tax and social security issues as they relate to executive compensation.
* High level understanding of the corporate tax issues, accounting issues and Employment law issues as they relate to executive compensation programs.
* PLC Governance/RemCo experience.
* Knowledge of expatriate tax issues and application of expatriate policies.
* Strong working knowledge of tax treaties and UK tax compliance rules/employer year-end reporting requirements.
* Working knowledge of non-UK tax issues, especially US and European tax issues
* Experience working in Compensation & Benefits within Financial Services, preferably focusing on Executive Compensation; or
* Experience working in a public accounting firm advising on Compensation & Benefits, ideally including advising on employment taxes relating to Reward and ideally including advising Financial Sector clients.
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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.
