Vice President, Indirect Tax

About this role

Business unit overview:

The Global Indirect Tax Group is responsible for managing the VAT, GST, DST and other indirect tax affairs for the BlackRock group globally – across policy, strategy, advisory, risk, technology and transformation, compliance, reporting, and accounting.

BlackRock has offices in 38 countries across the world, a growing business, and indirect tax obligations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas regions.

Purpose & background:

Reporting to the Global Head of Indirect Tax Compliance & Accounting, this role will play a key part in ensuring that the BlackRock group meets all of its VAT, GST, DST and other indirect tax compliance and reporting obligations, globally.

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.

We’re looking for a highly talented, experienced, and hard-working VAT professional, who is well organised, embraces change, and has very strong attention to detail, to contribute to a high-quality compliance and reporting function.

The role requires strong technical indirect tax expertise, exceptional project management skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders across multiple functions and geographies. The individual will operate in a highly dynamic environment and will play an important role in supporting the continued growth and evolution of BlackRock's global Indirect Tax function.

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

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

Guidance on AI use for candidates

At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com. We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok.

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.