Our client, a global leader in financial services, is seeking a VAT Manager to join their Indirect Tax team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to manage VAT risk and compliance across EMEA for a wide range of businesses including investment banking, markets (trading) businesses, private banking, asset management, payments and securities services.
VAT Manager
Salary: Competitive and based on experience
Location: London
Keywords: VAT, Manager, Financial Services, EMEA, Compliance, Risk Management
Our client, a global leader in financial services, is seeking a VAT Manager to join their Indirect Tax team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to manage VAT risk and compliance across EMEA for a wide range of businesses including investment banking, markets (trading) businesses, private banking, asset management, payments and securities services. You will be part of an experienced and deeply knowledgeable VAT team working with colleagues across the bank. This includes partnering with their VAT technology focused team, as well as their product focused VAT experts, broader tax department and location based finance and other colleagues.
- Opportunity to manage VAT risk and compliance across EMEA
- Work within an experienced and deeply knowledgeable VAT team
- Partner with various teams across the bank
What you'll do:
As a VAT Manager, your focus will be on covering location oversight and submissions, including advising on local VAT implications such as restructuring and business developments; alongside this will be improving consistency of process and feeding into strategic technology programs from the prospective of local processes. You will have the opportunity to build a deeper understanding of an FS business and play a part in helping to continually evolve compliance processes.
- Analyse the operating model in several EMEA locations
- Understand, review, and update tax compliance procedures
- Provide input into the strategic technology programme to ensure it will facilitate a robust filing process in locations
- Review tax compliance submissions
- Develop a high level understanding of the products of the relevant lines of business relevant to the locations.
- Develop knowledge of local VAT regimes applicable to the relevant jurisdictions and transactions / products (both tax technical and practical)
- Advise/train internal stakeholders
- Communicate VAT risks succinctly and clearly to non-tax colleagues
- Escalate risks internally within the team as appropriate
- Work with external tax advisors, as well as partnering internally with global Corporate Tax colleagues (including colleagues covering directs taxes) and non-tax colleagues (such as the Business, Legal, Finance, Operations etc.)
What you bring:
As a VAT Manager, you will bring a wealth of VAT advisory experience, preferably from a Big 4 or equivalent in-house financial services sector. Your detailed understanding of UK/EU VAT principles and knowledge of VAT compliance requirements and processes will be key to your success in this role. You are a quick learner with a positive attitude and professionalism, able to work independently, managing your own workload and projects. Your strong interpersonal skills will enable you to build working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree. Accounting or Tax qualification, e.g. CTA indirect tax route,
- VAT advisory experience (Big 4 or equivalent in-house) for financial services sector work experience
- A detailed understanding of UK/EU VAT principles, with knowledge/experience of VAT issues
- A knowledge of VAT compliance requirements and processes.
- Strong communication and structured written skills and the ability to work well in a team.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to formulate commercially sound solutions.
- Quick learner with a positive attitude and professionalism.
- Being able to work independently, managing own workload and projects.
- Strong interpersonal skills to build working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Functional knowledge of VAT technology systems an advantage
What sets this company apart:
Our client is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. They strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help their clients achieve their business objectives. They recognize that their people are their strength and the diverse talents they bring to their global workforce are directly linked to their success. They are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at their company.
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