Join us within the Fund Accounting UK Corporation Tax Oversight & Governance team and utilise your Fund Accounting skills and experience to grow your career!
As a Fund Accounting UK Corporation Tax Oversight & Governance Senior Associate/Associate within the Fund Accounting team, you will play a key role in delivering governance, oversight and control activities across the UK Corporation Tax operating model. The team has been established to provide centralized oversight of UK Corporation Tax processes, controls, data governance, operational risks and strategic change initiatives. Working across Operations, Product, Technology, Risk & Controls, Tax and Finance teams, you will help ensure regulatory obligations are delivered within a robust, transparent and sustainable control environment. This role requires a strong governance and controls mindset, the ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships and experience operating within a highly regulated environment. You will contribute to the identification and mitigation of operational risk, drive accountability for issue resolution and support the ongoing evolution of the UK Corporation Tax operating model through process improvement and strategic transformation initiatives.
Job responsibilities- Execute governance and oversight responsibilities across the UK Corporation Tax operating model.
- Support review and challenge of tax classifications, tax-sensitive events and UK Corporation Tax treatment applied across investment products and structures.
- Facilitate governance forums and working groups, ensuring actions, decisions and risks are appropriately documented and tracked.
- Support continuous enhancement of the control framework to strengthen operational resilience and regulatory compliance.
- Partner with operational teams to improve consistency, quality and accuracy of tax-related data.
- Contribute to business requirements, process design, governance reviews and implementation activities.
- Provide operational subject matter expertise to transformation and technology programmes.
- Produce governance reporting, key risk indicators, management information and executive updates.
- Support delivery of year-end UK Corporation Tax assurance and readiness activities.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships across Operations, Product, Technology, Tax, Finance and Control functions.
- Promote best practices across governance, risk management and operational control disciplines.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills- Experience within Financial Services Operations, Fund Accounting, Tax Operations, Financial Reporting, Risk & Controls, Governance or a related discipline.
- Strong understanding of operational risk and control principles.
- Proven ability to investigate, analyse and resolve complex operational issues.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience preparing management information and reporting for senior stakeholders.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outputs within tight deadlines.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong proficiency in PowerPoint and Word.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills- Experience supporting UK Corporation Tax, tax reporting, CT600 processes or fund taxation activities.
- Understanding of investment funds, asset servicing and fund accounting environments.
- Knowledge of complex investment structures including offshore funds, partnerships, REITs and Tax Transparent Funds.
- Experience supporting governance frameworks, operating model design or control framework development.
- Experience participating in strategic change, transformation or technology implementation programmes.
- Professional qualification or progress towards qualification (ACA, ACCA, CTA, CIMA or equivalent).
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