VP - Indirect Tax

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