Vice President, Corporate Tax - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers
eFinancialCareers
Verified Company
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter
Description

Description

About this role

Business Unit Overview
This role will be based in Edinburgh within the EMEA Corporate Tax team.

The EMEA Corporate Tax team has staff in London, Edinburgh, and Belgrade, and is responsible for all corporate tax matters relevant to BlackRock's operations in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA).

The team's broad remit includes ensuring thatall tax compliance and reporting obligations across the region are met, strategic projects, M&A tax support, providing operational and advisory support to our Global Tax team in New York as well as to internal business stakeholders, tax dispute resolution,and managing relationships with tax authorities across the region.

We work closely with other regional Finance and Tax teams, as well as Treasury, Legal and Compliance teams, to deliver cross functional key strategic projects and operational value, in the spirit of One BlackRock.


Job Purpose/Background:


Key Responsibilities:


  • Oversee and ensure all Corporate Income Tax (CIT) returns and associated filings in the region are to be done on a timely and accurate basis, independently managing output from tax advisors and other internal stakeholders
  • Oversee the CIT outsourced service provider relationships in the region
  • Oversee the EMEA corporate tax payment process to ensure timely payment of all corporate tax liabilities, with assistance and advice from external tax advisors if necessary
  • Ownership of the US GAAP and local GAAP Tax provisioning for EMEA entities and associated reporting to ensure this is done on an accurate and timely basis.
  • Review of various USGAAP reporting requirements including EMEA ETR forecasting, tax balance sheet account reconciliations and cash taxes reporting
  • Review of annual statutory tax reporting requirements and quarterly regulatory submissions for all allocated entities on a timely and accurate basis
  • Ensuring the maintenance and development of an effective tax risk and controls framework for CIT in the region
  • Provide business tax business partnering and tax advisory support across the region independently engage with and manage CIT queries from stakeholders, whether these are from internal (other teams), external advisers, local tax authorities, or auditors,etc.
  • Responsibility for developing strategic plans for the ongoing development of the tax function, such as ownership of the tax technology agenda and implementation of processes to deal with strategic change, such as BEPS 2.0

Development Value:


Knowledge, Experience and Competencies:


  • Experience in reviewing CIT returns and calculations in the EMEA region
  • Ability to take full ownership of all workstreams and be able to work independently and communicate effectively with the EMEA Corporate International Tax Advisory VP and Head of EMEA Corporate Tax
  • Familiarity of international corporate tax planning projects and concepts, either in a Big 4 or multinational inhouse environment
  • Be highly organised, have a strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple workstreams with delivery to agreed deadlines essential
  • Be a selfstarter and good communicator, able to work independently but also exercising sound business judgement to escalate issues where necessary
  • Proactive, highly numerate, be quick learner and a team player, with an ability to adjust to change and the desire to take on responsibility and ownership of allocated work
More jobs from eFinancialCareers
See all jobs of eFinancialCareers