Senior Tax Manager, Real Assets – London
This is a great job for someone either looking to expand their existing tax experience in industry in support of a growing real assets platform or for a move out of practice for an investment-focussed senior manager.
A bit about the job:
Working as part of the Real Assets Fund Finance Team and working closely with the Aviva Investors Tax and Finance teams, you will ensure that an appropriate governance and control framework is in place and adhered to across Infrastructure and Alternative Income funds, mandates, joint ventures and investments advised and managed by the Real Assets team.
The Real Assets business invests and manages real estate, private debt (infrastructure debt, real estate debt, private corporate debt and structure finance) and infrastructure investments in the UK and Europe for a range of internal and external clients.
For infrastructure projects and alternative income investments you will:
* Ensure investments are compliant with the Tax Business Standard, including having appropriate governance and controls
* Provide tax support and advice on new products, transactions and contracts
* Keep the business up to date with tax developments impacting their fund and investment management activities.
This will involve close liaison with Aviva Group Tax to ensure timely knowledge of projects and transactions for final sign-off.
Skills and experience we’re looking for:
* A qualified tax professional, being someone holding a tax qualification, or someone holding an accounting qualification and has experience of working in corporate or investment taxes.
* Able to give tax advice and guidance to staff at all levels.
* Understanding of typical investment structures from both a corporate and individual investor perspective
* Good general knowledge of the direct, indirect and transaction taxes impacting real assets investments.
* Experience of tax and tax risk management within an investment management business or financial services business
What you’ll get for this role:
* Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in
* Eligibility for annual performance bonus
* Family friendly parental and carer’s leave
* Generous holiday entitlement plus bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
* Up to 40% discount for Aviva products
* Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars
* Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme
* 21 volunteering hours per year
Aviva is for everyone:
We are inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
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We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you.
Most of our people are smart working – spending around 60% of their time in our offices and 40% at home.
We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.
We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, send an email to GlobalRecruitment@avivainvestors.com .