Indirect Tax Project Delivery Manager

Location: London

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President/ Vice President

Group Strategic Analytics (GSA) is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank. Group Tax’s responsibility is to manage Deutsche Bank’s worldwide tax position, with responsibilities ranging from advising on the tax consequences of transactions, ensuring compliance with local tax obligations, producing tax data for financial and other reporting purposes, handling tax audits and disputes, to working with industry and governmental bodies on the development of legislation and practice.

What we’ll offer you:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working Model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them.
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days.
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family.
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits.
• The opportunity to support a wide-ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year.

Your key responsibilities:

• Assist in evaluating the Value Added Tax (VAT) profile of target jurisdictions with a view of identifying gaps in the processes and set up from an indirect tax perspective, liaise with stakeholders on ensuring the Indirect Tax requirements are fully mapped and understood.
• Support local Group Tax and provide necessary guidance to ensure a successful roll-out of Daily Close programme.
• Assist in evaluating and ensuring that a post-implementation governance structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities are identified and agreed.
• Participate in discussions including evaluating any VAT reporting requirements are automated to reduce additional risks associated with manual calculation of any pro-rata calculations.
• Assist in coordinating system changes in terms of how revenue is recorded and booked to ensure all aspects of Indirect Tax reporting requirements are fulfilled.
• Help devise the calculation tool with the aim of automating the process to reduce complexity and help streamline the calculation and forecasting process in terms of the impact of indirect tax on financial performance.

Your skills and experience:

• Experience of tax advisory within the tax department of a professional services firm or equivalent experience within the advisory team of an in-house tax function.
• Good knowledge of United Kingdom (UK)/Europe VAT. Banking tax experience and some experience of tax systems outside UK/Germany is desirable but not a requirement.
• Experience assisting/leading in designing, building and implementing of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) general ledger applications.
• Comfortable handling escalations, communicating and upholding Group Tax requirements through engagement with senior stakeholders.
• Able to summarise complex technical subject matter, with clear conclusions and recommendations, for a non-technical audience.

How we’ll support you:

• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (for example, screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards).

About us:

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 for five consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion. We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively. Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group. We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.