Senior Investment Tax Manager

Your new company

The business is responsible for the safekeeping and investment of around £30 billion in assets and the administration of several pension schemes.

Your new role

As the Senior Investment Tax Manager you will support the Head of Investment Tax with the provision of effective transactional tax advice to our Investment teams. This will incorporate providing advice and/or overseeing the delivery of third party advice across a number infrastructure and renewables investments, UK real estate investments, and global private equity investments. It will also include supporting on investments into traditional funds.

The transactional support will encompass tax structuring and tax due diligence, review and input into transactional documents, working with investment colleagues to understand and input into tax assumptions as part of the underwriting process. You will also support colleagues by answering ad-hoc tax queries on prospective projects as well as responding on ad-hoc queries

The role will also have responsibility for oversight of UK tax compliance for portfolio companies with a direct report who you will have oversight of, supporting in the delivery of the UK tax filing obligations.
The person

The successful candidate will have a relevant Tax and/or accounting qualification, alongside experience of working in a deals team/real assets team and good awareness of tax issues relevant to these asset classes.
Exposure to a range of UK taxes (inc. corporation tax, VAT, CIS, SDLT) and different types of investment holding entities, is key for this role and experience of US tax implications of investing into private equity funds would be desirable.

You will be a confident, influential and an effective communicator who can unite diverse individuals and opinions and reach mutually agreed positions, when seeking views across the organisation. You will have the ability to constructively challenge peers and welcome challenge in return. Being dependable and building strong relationships across the business is key whilst always acting in the best interests of the group.

You should be comfortable in explaining tax issues to non-tax colleagues and be able to articulate, and provide views on, areas of uncertainty.

What you need to do now

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