Project Manager - Tax Related Project

Project Manager - Tax Related Project

6 Month Contract - Initial

London

Remote Working

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We are happy to be recruiting for one of our high-profile Banking clients. They are currently looking for a Project Manager to join them for an initial 6-month contract. However, there may be scope for extension.

Role Requirements:

• Own and coordinate tax related project delivery across Fund Accounting Tax and Custody Tax workstreams, ensuring alignment to overall Project Intrepid timelines and milestones.
• Act as the central point of coordination between tax SMEs, operations teams, client stakeholders, and external stakeholders on all tax related topics (e.g. WHT, tax documentation, reclaims, regulatory change).
• Drive tax analysis, design, and readiness activities, coordinating workshops, action tracking, and closure of open items across jurisdictions and fund ranges.
• Manage tax service definition and documentation, ensuring consistency between Fund Accounting SLDs, Custody tax processes, SLAs, and agreed client operating models.
• Coordinate dependencies between tax, accounting, and custody processes, ensuring tax impacts to NAV, income processing, and reporting are clearly understood and addressed.
• Provide clear governance, status reporting, and escalation, maintaining a consolidated view of risks, issues, and decisions across all tax topics for programme and client forums.
• Support testing, migration, and go live readiness for tax processes, including validation of operational procedures, evidence, and sign off.

Location:

This is a predominate remote working role, with a requirement to work from the clients London as and when required.

Working hours:

Standard working hours with some flex where required.

If you feel that this is a role that would suit you then please apply today.

If you do not hear from us within 48 hours of your application, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

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