My client has an opening in a team that directly supports the UK and EMEA front office business Units. This involves analysing transactions, identifying and managing tax risks, and thereby facilitating new and ongoing business. The team is expanding, resulting in an opportunity for someone to join the team as a Vice President.
This role offers a wide range of challenging and interesting tax advisory work and is an excellent opportunity for someone with a good level of tax advisory experience looking to make a move into an in-house role. The role would also suit also suit candidates with existing in-house experience. The successful candidate can expect to work on a range of projects across the business and will be given the opportunity to take responsibility for leading the tax input to business projects at an early stage.
Main duties of the role will include:
* Review of new transactions and products and advising the business and other control areas on the tax aspects;
* Provision of tax input to all applicable sign-off processes covering new business;
* Working closely with the Wealth Advisory team, agreeing policy guidelines for client tax advice and transaction risk appetite;
* Developing and active monitoring of controls to manage tax risk;
* Working closely with indirect tax colleagues and external advisers;
* Co-ordination with tax specialists in all Barclays Wealth locations worldwide to give comprehensive sign-off and support for cross-border transactions;
* Develop relationships with all Wealth sites to ensure appropriate ownership of non-UK tax risk;
* Provide guidelines and advice to Wealth Operations to enable correct application of operational taxes; and
* Liaison with Tax Compliance and Tax Reporting teams to facilitate inclusion of all new products in tax compliance lifecycle.
The successful candidate must be able to address the following attributes:
* CTA, ACA or qualified solicitor with good experience of financial sector tax
* Sound technical knowledge and the ability to identify tax risks and advise on a range of transactions
* be able to take responsibility for delivery of advice and support on specific products, seeking support appropriately from the team
* Good communication skills and ability to build and nurture close working relationships with both business and key infrastructure areas such as Legal, Compliance, and Finance; and be able to operate effectively in a team of experienced business tax specialists, sharing knowledge and issues.
Please contact Graham Young at Pro-Tax to discuss this opportunity in more detail.
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