AVP, Investment Tax

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)

We manage 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.

What impact can you make in this role?

You will be part of a team that provides investment services on private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and cross-strategy investments. 

What will you do as an AVP/VP Investment Tax?

The individual will predominantly support GIC’s private markets in Asia-Pacific, with occasional public investments across the globe.

Responsibilities:

1. Tax support to Private Market asset classes in Asia-Pacific

• Delivers early-stage tax support as investment teams explore the viability of new opportunities. In anticipation of investing into key European jurisdictions, 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, monitors the quality of final technical advice/opinions and tax ruling submissions

Maintains tax knowledge pertinent to assets classes that invest across Europe, particularly private equity (funds, co-investments, and direct equity), real estate, infrastructure, and credit investments, and leverages a network of external advisors to monitor for changes of tax law or administrative practice

Supports, negotiates and reviews legal documents including LPAs and tax side letters.

Effectively highlights and communicates changes of law to investment departments that could impact current or future investments across Europe

Collaborates with investment teams and other Corporate Services departments to ensure that the on-going tax management of investments across Europe meets GIC’s needs. Identifies improvements and recommends pragmatic solutions

As necessary, facilitates similar investment and tax support to public market investments to ensure that the global tax support provided to GIC is balanced against competing priorities

2. 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 and effectively enable them to understand tax issues
• Contributes knowledge of GIC’s European tax issues to the delivery of tax risk reporting to key stakeholders
• Maintains high standards of effective oral and written communications to internal stakeholders to ensure ease of understanding the relevance to the business
• Assists the tax compliance team in interfacing with European investment departments to ensure that GIC’s tax compliance obligations are met
• Actively contributes to the Tax team’s knowledge and technology resources, and shares ideas/information with peers. Drive and support AI initiatives for the Investment Tax team 

Supports the implementation of special projects and initiatives for the Tax team

3. 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 across asset classes, product lines, and geographies
• Promotes collaboration and issue resolution within and across teams

 What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role? 

• Relevant and credible international tax experience
• An accounting/commerce degree with tax knowledge and/or holds a relevant professional qualification in tax, accountancy or law (e.g. CTA, ACA, ACCA or qualified lawyer).
• 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 and the ability to progress multiple assignments independently and efficiently
• Has excellent attention to detail and consistently high levels of accuracy
• Demonstrates personal initiative, strives to innovate and build best practices, but is highly attuned to the need for practical solutions
• Demonstrates an ability to think broadly about tax information, think through problems strategically, assess a variety of factors and recommend a pragmatic solution
• Exemplifies GIC’s PRIME values and strives toward agility, ambition and diversity

Work at the Point of Impact

We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact.

Flexibility at GIC

At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection.  At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves.  Thus, 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 and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.

GIC is an equal opportunity employer

GIC is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please email grphrodtaops@gic.com.sg at any point of the application or interview process if adjustments need to be made due to a disability. 

Learn more about our Global Investment Services here: https://gic.careers/departments/global-investment-services/