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Location:
London, GB
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Job Function: Global Investment Services
Job Type: Permanent
Req ID: 17391
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GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.
GIC Global Investment Services (GIS)
We manage deal structuring, due diligence and closing. We provide financial operations to GIC’s private equity, infrastructure, real estate assets, equities and fixed income, as well as tax structuring, corporate holding structures, valuations, and financial reporting. We strive to support business groups with digital capabilities and deliver environmental, social and governance focused capabilities, and market expertise.
Tax
You will help to provide tax support to the GIC group and investments made by GIC. Our coverage includes enterprise tax, public markets, and private markets tax.
What impact can you make in this role?
You will be part of a team that provides investment services on private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and cross-strategy investments.
What will you do as an AVP/VP Investment Tax?
The individual will predominantly support GIC’s private markets in Europe, with occasional public investments across the globe.
Responsibilities:
1. Tax support to Private Market asset classes in Europe
Delivers early-stage tax support as investment teams explore the viability of new opportunities. In anticipation of investing into key European jurisdictions, facilitates preparatory work with external advisors to determine the availability of preferred tax structuring alternatives
Provides direct support to investment teams in complex situations to ensure tax risks and opportunities are well understood, monitors the quality of final technical advice/opinions and tax ruling submissions
Maintains tax knowledge pertinent to assets classes that invest across Europe, particularly private equity (funds, co-investments, and direct equity), real estate, infrastructure, and credit investments, and leverages a network of external advisors to monitor for changes of tax law or administrative practice
Supports, negotiates and reviews legal documents including LPAs and tax side letters.
Effectively highlights and communicates changes of law to investment departments that could impact current or future investments across Europe
Collaborates with investment teams and other Corporate Services departments to ensure that the on-going tax management of investments across Europe meets GIC’s needs. Identifies improvements and recommends pragmatic solutions
As necessary, facilitates similar investment and tax support to public market investments to ensure that the global tax support provided to GIC is balanced against competing priorities
2. Broader support across tax strategy and tax risk
Supports the Tax team’s work to advance tax strategic initiatives in Europe and globally.
Maintains constructive relationships with key government authorities and tax departments of peer organizations in Europe
Supports the roll out of training for investment professionals and other departments to increase their tax awareness and effectively enable them to understand tax issues
Contributes knowledge of GIC’s European tax issues to the delivery of tax risk reporting to key stakeholders
Maintains high standards of effective oral and written communications to internal stakeholders to ensure ease of understanding the relevance to the business
Assists the tax compliance team in interfacing with European investment departments to ensure that GIC’s tax compliance obligations are met
Actively contributes to the Tax team’s knowledge and technology resources, and shares ideas/information with peers. Drive and support AI initiatives for the Investment Tax team
Supports the implementation of special projects and initiatives for the Tax team
3. Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships
Develops, maintains, and manages relationships with key individuals across all other GIC departments
Collaborates with peers in the Tax team to leverage team knowledge and experience
Assists with reports to senior management on tax issues, risks, and opportunities across asset classes, product lines, and geographies
Promotes collaboration and issue resolution within and across teams
What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?
Strong academic background or equivalent practical experience, and/or holds a relevant professional qualification in tax, accountancy or law (e.g. CTA, ACA, ACCA or qualified lawyer).
A strong team player who displays teamwork and collaboration
A strong communicator who is able to adapt own communication style to different audiences
Demonstrates strong writing, analytical and oral presentation skills
Has strong organisational/project management skills and the ability to progress multiple assignments independently and efficiently
Has excellent attention to detail and consistently high levels of accuracy
Demonstrates personal initiative, strives to innovate and build best practices, but is highly attuned to the need for practical solutions
Demonstrates an ability to think broadly about tax information, think through problems strategically, assess a variety of factors and recommend a pragmatic solution
Exemplifies GIC’s PRIME values and strives toward agility, ambition and diversity
Work at the Point of Impact
We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact.
Flexibility at GIC
At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection. At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves. Thus, our teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in-person collaboration, but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.
GIC is an equal opportunity employer
We aim to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone. If you need a reasonable adjustment at any point in the application, assessment or interview process, please click here to submit a request. All information provided is confidential, restricted to our HR team, and will not impact your candidacy. Please refer to our Privacy Statement for more information.
Learn more about our Global Investment Services here: https://gic.careers/departments/global-investment-services/
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Our PRIME Values
Our PRIME Values
GIC is a values driven organization. GIC’s PRIME Values act as our compass, enabling us to fulfil our fundamental purpose and objectives. It is the foundational bedrock which governs our behaviors, our decision making, and our focus. It informs both our long-term strategy as a firm, and the way we relate to our Client, business partners and employees. PRIME stands for Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence.
