Securities Services - Global Custody Tax Product Manager - Vice President

J.P. Morgan; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm based in the City of London seeks a Vice President to manage its custody tax services. This role involves collaborating with internal stakeholders and clients, monitoring tax legislation changes, and ensuring compliance across markets. Candidates should have strong expertise in EMEA tax laws and excellent analytical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with EMEA tax laws.
• Knowledge of tax considerations for institutional investors.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor tax changes and implications for clients.
• Draft internal and external tax service materials.
• Manage tax information on J.P. Morgan's Tax Intelligence platform.
• Coordinate with local sub-custodians on tax services.
• Assist maintaining and mitigating tax risk.

Skills

Tax technical knowledge

Securities taxation principles

Excellent communication skills

Analytical ability

Stakeholder management

Client-facing experience

Job description

The Custody Tax Product management role forms part of the product management function focusing on the management and control of the Global Custody business.

Job summary

As a Vice President in Custody Tax Product team, you will be responsible for the end-to-end management of the custody tax service offering. You will leverage your tax technical knowledge and experience by translating tax law into business requirements and by setting, maintaining, and owning tax service definitions for the custody business in the EMEA region, providing subject matter expertise and guidance to business partners in relation to the custody tax product, and engaging in industry representative efforts related to new or amending tax legislation and associated administrative procedures. As a self-starter with a passion for identifying and implementing solutions to problems, you will partner with J.P. Morgan’s clients and internal stakeholders to develop solutions to enable clients to manage tax aspects of their global portfolio investments, to assess the impact of regulatory developments on the custody tax service offering, to implement appropriate business solutions, and to provide implementation oversight for new and/or enhanced product features and functions. You will act as the face of the Tax Product with clients by supporting client meetings .

In this role, you will also be engaged in governance and quality assurance of custody tax solutions and operating models, as well as assessing opportunities and threats of external and internal changes from a tax perspective.

Job responsibilities

• Monitoring and communication of tax changes and their implications across markets, to J.P. Morgan’s operations, custody business locations, and their respective clients
• Drafting and maintaining relevant internal and external materials reflecting J.P. Morgan’s tax service offering as well as the current state of local law, treaty, including entity level taxation of various types of investors
• Managing tax information in J.P. Morgan’s Tax Intelligence platform
• Working with local sub-custodians to oversee the tax service in the local markets
• Drafting of market flashes and associated policies, and tax product materials
• Assisting the business in managing and mitigating tax risk
• Partnering with J.P. Morgan Corporate Tax, Legal and Product teams to develop new tax products and create business proposals for clients and prospects

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• You demonstrate tax technical knowledge / experience working with tax laws of various jurisdictions with a focus on EMEA markets
• You have a knowledge of securities taxation principles and tax considerations impacting institutional portfolio investors and custodians
• You have aknowledge of tax considerations impacting institutional portfolio investors and custodians
• You demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to provide tax regulatory and product updates for internal stakeholders and external clients
• You have strong analytical ability with attention to detail
• You are capable of managing multiple competing priorities and stakeholders
• You have experience working in a professional services firm or financial services firm

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• You have strong presentation skills and previous client facing experience
• You have ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams in multiple locations