# Vice President, Global Indirect Tax Compliance & Accounting

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: Edinburgh, Scotland
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

The Vice President will be responsible for leading significant elements of BlackRock's global indirect tax compliance and accounting framework, supporting the end-to-end delivery of indirect tax reporting and accounting processes, managing relationships with outsourced service providers and advisors, and contributing to strategic tax technology and transformation initiatives.

Key responsibilities:

- Oversee the preparation, review, and submission of indirect tax returns across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring timely and accurate compliance

- Manage relationships with external service providers and advisors

- Support governance and control activities relating to indirect tax compliance and accounting processes

- Review of recovery rate and annual adjustment calculations

- Managing indirect tax refund requests, including foreign VAT/GST refund claims

- Preparation and review of indirect tax balance sheet reconciliations and journal postings

- Providing indirect tax advice to the BlackRock businesses, in partnership with BlackRock’s Indirect Tax Advisory team

- Monitoring developments with indirect tax compliance obligations, globally, including any new requirements which impact on BlackRock, and ensuring BlackRock fully complies with such developments

- Enhancing knowledge of indirect tax across the BlackRock business and delivering indirect tax training to stakeholders

- Supporting with tax audits, and BlackRock’s responses to tax authority requests

- Supporting indirect tax aspects of organisational initiatives, including group and organisational restructurings, expansion into new locations, new products and service offerings, M&A, etc.

- Preparing and maintaining VAT/GST guidance and governance documents

- Supporting digital VAT/GST/DST reporting requirements, including in countries where new requirements are implemented

- Driving continuous improvement of indirect tax processes through automation, standardisation, and technology and AI enhancements

Experience:

- Minimum of five years’ experience working in VAT, including experience of managing VAT compliance processes and reviewing complex VAT returns – preferably in-house or within a senior role within a big 4 or top 10 professional services firm

- Experience in dealing with overseas VAT regimes would be beneficial, but not mandatory

- Experience working in Financial Services and/or a large multinational organisation preferred, but not mandatory

- Experience of Oracle and KPMG’s PXCube preferred, but not essential

Qualifications, skills & competencies:

- CTA, CA, ACA qualified (or equivalents)

- Proven ability to deliver continuous enhancements to processes and deliverables

- Proven ability to develop collaborative working relationships across multiple teams internally, and with external tax advisors

- Ability to clearly and confidently communicate in verbal and written form

- Highly organised, strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple work streams with varied deadlines

- Strong problem solving and analytical skills

- Competent in use of Microsoft Excel, including the use of advanced formulas and pivot tables

## Skills

### Required
- VAT
- GST
- DST
- indirect tax
- Microsoft Excel

### Nice to have
- Oracle
- KPMG’s PXCube
- overseas VAT regimes
- Financial Services
- large multinational organisation

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