Departmental Description: The position is based in London in the product advisory tax team of the wider Corporate Tax Department. The team covers tax risks in business transactions within the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, Africa) for a wide range of businesses conducted including trading, investment banking, private banking, asset management, treasury and custody services.

Key

responsibilities:

• Reviewing documents in connection with the loan and loan related product (loan agreements, term sheets, tax opinions) and advising colleagues in the Business, Legal and Credit in relation to tax (including VAT) risks
• Developing knowledge of worldwide tax regimes applicable to the loan product (both tax technical and practical), communicating tax risks succinctly and clearly to non-tax colleagues and escalating risks internally within the team as appropriate
• Involved in negotiating tax aspects of the documents and must be able to apply a commercial (yet technically sound) approach to tax risk management
• Work with external tax advisors, as well as partnering internally with global Corporate Tax colleagues, including colleagues covering VAT

Essential Skills / Experience:

• Professionally qualified (e.g. tax, law, accounting etc) and must have worked in the past, or currently be working, providing tax advice in a law or accounting firm
• Strong good team player
• Capable of communicating tax issues to non-tax personnel
• Working under pressure in a commercial environment
• A willingness to approach new and unfamiliar issues in an analytical and logical manner is required
• Strong communication skills
• A working knowledge of FATCA and VAT would be helpful but not essential