Corporate Tax Specialist

About this role Business Unit Overview This role will be based in Belgrade within the EMEA Corporate Tax team, which is part of Tax. The EMEA Corporate Tax team is based in London, Edinburgh and Belgrade and is responsible for all aspects of corporate tax matters relevant to BlackRock’s operations in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). The team has a wide remit, broadly comprising of strategic projects, including M&A, business operational and advisory support to the US tax team in New York and internal business operations, and tax audit defense and controversy management, along with the ownership of relationships with tax authorities across EMEA. The Corporate Tax team also ensures annual tax compliance and reporting across the region, which currently comprises over 25 jurisdictions, are met. The EMEA Corporate Tax team works closely with other Finance teams in Edinburgh, including with the VAT team, Transfer Pricing Operations, Financial Reporting Group, Accounting Policy and Corporate Control teams, as well as with other functions like Treasury, Legal and Compliance teams, to deliver cross functional key strategic projects and ensure compliance and reporting filings are done, in the spirit of One BlackRock. Job Purpose/Background: This role will be based in Belgrade. The role will formally report to, and work closely with the EMEA Corporate Tax team based in Belgrade, but the individual will also need to work with all members of the team, which is currently a team of 13. The individual will also have regular interactions with other Finance teams in Edinburgh, as well as various other internal stakeholders such as local management across EMEA, and external tax advisors throughout the region. This role presents a unique opportunity for the right candidate to join a high quality, high performing in-house corporate tax function with significant exposure to complex tax compliance and reporting work, gaining valuable experience of tax laws and rules across the region, with some opportunity to experience other corporate tax-related projects and advisory work, where required. The size and structure of the team will allow the successful candidate the opportunity to take advantage of BlackRock’s flexible working offering, such as the option to work from home up to one day a week and Flexible Time Off (FTO) where employees are not held to a fixed number of days off per year but instead have the flexibility to take paid time off when they need it to relax and recharge. Key Responsibilities: Ensuring timely and accurate provision of data for any corporate income tax (CIT) returns allocated to the individual, and independently liaising with third party tax advisors to prepare returns for submissions Ensuring timely payment of all EMEA corporate tax liabilities as and when they arise throughout the year, with assistance and advice from external tax advisors if necessary Initial preparation of monthly US GAAP Tax provisions for EMEA entities and associated reporting Preparation of annual statutory tax reporting requirements and regulatory submissions for EMEA entities Promptly responding to CIT queries from stakeholders whether these are from internal (other teams), external advisers, local tax authorities, or auditors, etc Participate in developing strategic plans for the ongoing development of the tax function, such as tax technology and implementation of processes to deal with strategic change, such as BEPS 2.0 Development Value: This role offers a wealth of opportunity to develop knowledge of UK and overseas tax regimes and US GAAP, IFRS and local territory tax accounting, from a global financial services perspective. There will also be opportunity work closely with and receive tax technical training on global tax issues from more senior members of the EMEA Corporate Tax team.  The successful candidate will have access to external local tax advisors across EMEA to build on EMEA tax compliance knowledge. The broad r ... (truncated, view full listing at source)