AVP, Investment Tax in Whitehall

GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 locations around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future and the communities we invest in worldwide.

GIC Global Investment Services (GIS) manages deal structuring, due diligence and closing. We provide financial operations to GIC’s private equity, infrastructure, real estate assets, equities and fixed income, as well as tax structuring, corporate holding structures, valuations, and financial reporting. We strive to support business groups with digital capabilities and deliver environmental, social and governance focused capabilities, and market expertise.

Tax

You will help to provide tax support to the GIC group and investments made by GIC. Our coverage includes enterprise tax, public markets, and private markets tax.

Responsibilities:

• Tax support to Private Market asset classes in Europe
• Delivers early-stage tax support as investment teams explore the viability of new opportunities.
• Facilitates preparatory work with external advisors to determine the availability of preferred tax structuring alternatives.
• Provides direct support to investment teams in complex situations to ensure tax risks and opportunities are well understood.
• Maintains tax knowledge pertinent to asset classes that invest across Europe.
• Supports, negotiates and reviews legal documents including LPAs and tax side letters.
• Collaborates with investment teams and other Corporate Services departments to ensure that the ongoing tax management of investments across Europe meets GIC’s needs.
• Identifies improvements and recommends pragmatic solutions.
• Facilitates similar investment and tax support to public market investments.

Broader support across tax strategy and tax risk

• Supports the Tax team’s work to advance tax strategic initiatives in Europe and globally.
• Maintains constructive relationships with key government authorities and tax departments of peer organizations in Europe.
• Supports the roll out of training for investment professionals and other departments to increase their tax awareness.
• Contributes knowledge of GIC’s European tax issues to the delivery of tax risk reporting to key stakeholders.
• Assists the tax compliance team in interfacing with European investment departments.
• Actively contributes to the Tax team’s knowledge and technology resources.
• Drives and supports AI initiatives for the Investment Tax team.

Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships

• Develops, maintains, and manages relationships with key individuals across all other GIC departments.
• Collaborates with peers in the Tax team to leverage team knowledge and experience.
• Assists with reports to senior management on tax issues, risks, and opportunities.

Qualifications or skills:

• Strong academic background or equivalent practical experience, and/or holds a relevant professional qualification in tax, accountancy or law.
• A strong team player who displays teamwork and collaboration.
• A strong communicator who is able to adapt own communication style to different audiences.
• Demonstrates strong writing, analytical and oral presentation skills.
• Has strong organisational/project management skills.
• Demonstrates personal initiative, strives to innovate and build best practices.
• Exemplifies GIC’s PRIME values and strives toward agility, ambition and diversity.

Flexibility at GIC

At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection. Our teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in-person collaboration, but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home.

GIC is an equal opportunity employer. We aim to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone.