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