Head of Tax - US Hedge Fund, London

A US hedge fund is looking to recruit their first ever Head of Tax. This is a business-critical role and would suit someone who can work in a fast paced and exciting environment. With offices across the US and Europe this is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing, dynamic investment management business.

Role:

Responsibility and oversight of all aspect of the organisation's global direct and indirect tax liabilities, including overseeing all tax filing responsibilities
Helping Group achieve tax efficiencies by exploring and implementing efficient tax strategies and thus helping drive business decisions
Providing advice as to tax implications of Group expansion into new regions
Responsible for Group transfer pricing
Scope to assist with any Fund tax matters
Developing tax processes within the Finance team
You will have the opportunity to utilise the firm's proprietary technology, analytics, and operations platform, being developed in-house, contribute towards its development and drive the development of the tool for Finance which is to encompass calculation of taxes, R&D and transfer pricing.
Due to our increased global footprint, you will help drive organisational restructuring and business change, dealing directly with senior management.
The role will have a global remit and require you to work closely with external service providers.
Some scope to assist with Fund Tax but main remit is expected to be within the Corporate Finance team.

Specific responsibilities included, but are not limited to:

Responsible for all group tax reporting obligations, overseeing tax computations prepared by external accountants.
Primary contact for all tax matters.
Provide key tax considerations for all internal projects and assist senior management in making tax efficient decisions.
Assist finance with building out forecasting models and various simulations by incorporating tax elements into these models.

This role requires all employees to be in the office 5 days a week.

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.