Vp, Tax, Private Markets

Location:
Singapore, SG

Job Function: Investment Services Private Markets & Finance

**Job Type**: Permanent

Req ID: 14891

**Investment Services Private Markets & Finance**

Investment Services Private Markets and Finance (ISPVMF) is responsible for investment services for the private market and financial management across the GIC group. It is responsible for providing operations and reporting support to the private market business of GIC as well as budgeting, accounting, payment processing, cash management, tax and financial & management reporting services to all departments, corporate management companies and the global offices of the GIC group. It is involved in deal structuring and closing, transaction processing, administration and accounting of investment holding companies, review of financial controls for asset operations, cash and securities reconciliation, valuation and financial reporting for assets under management.

GIC has offices in 11 cities around the world and invests in more than 40 countries globally across a wide range of asset classes and financial products in the public and private markets. The Tax function in ISPVMF is responsible for all tax matters relating to the GIC Group and portfolio. GIC seeks to hire a Vice President for the Tax function within ISPVMF in Singapore. Reporting to the SVP, Deals Asia Pacific Tax, the individual will predominantly support the private investments in the Asia Pacific region, most notably Japan, China, India, and Australia.

**Responsibilities**
- Tax Support to GIC’s Private Investments asset classes in the APAC region
- Delivers early-stage tax support when investment teams explore the viability of new opportunities. In anticipation of investing into new jurisdictions, facilitates preparatory work with external advisors to determine the availability of tax privileges for GIC and preferred tax structuring alternatives
- Provides timely support to investment teams to ensure tax risks and opportunities are well understood, monitors the quality of final technical advice/opinions, and tax ruling submissions and, if necessary, gets involved to resolve service issues with advisors
- Maintains tax knowledge pertinent to assets classes that invest across the spectrum of Asia Pacific for Private Markets investments, particularly private equity (funds, co-investments and direct equity) and real estate, as well as leverage a network of external advisors to monitor for changes of tax law and/or administrative practice. Effectively communicates changes of law to investment departments that could impact current or future investments
- Proactively identifies opportunities such as obtaining tax exemption, relief at source and/or more timely receipt of tax refunds
- Proactively identifies best-in-class tax advisors to support the specific needs of the investment teams. On-boards advisors, maintains relationships, and monitors performance to ensure advisors deliver to GIC’s service and value expectations
- Collaborates with investment teams and other Corporate Services departments to ensure that the on-going tax management of investments across the globe meets GIC’s needs. Identifies improvements and recommends pragmatic solutions
- Where required, facilitates similar investment support to non-Asia Pacific private investments to ensure that the global tax support provided to GIC is balanced amongst competing priorities
- Broader support across tax strategy and tax risk
- Supports the Tax team’s work to advance tax strategic initiatives in the Asia Pacific region
- Maintains constructive relationships with key government authorities and tax departments of peer organizations in the Asia Pacific
- Builds and delivers a renewable program of core training for investment professionals and other departments in the Asia Pacific to increase their tax awareness and enable them to effectively understand tax issues relevant to their department
- Contributes knowledge of GIC’s Asia Pacific tax issues to the delivery of tax risk reporting to the Board, management committees, and various internal 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 the Asia Pacific 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
- Leads special projects and initiatives for Asia Pacific
- Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships
- Works effectively with colleagues across GIC
- Builds the trust of the investment departments that are directly supported
- Develops, maintains, and manages relationships with key individuals across ISPVM, Legal & Compliance, and other Corporate Services groups
- Collaborates with peers in the Tax team to leverage team knowle