Avp Tax, Private Markets

Location: Singapore, SG- Job Function: Investment Services Private Markets- Job Type: Permanent- Req ID: 15205**Investment Services Private Markets**

The Investment Services Private Markets Department (ISPVM) is responsible for investment services for the private market across the GIC group. It is responsible for providing deal structuring and closing, portfolio monitoring, valuation, finance, operations, tax, data management and analytics services, in the execution of private market investments in Real Estate, Private Equity, Private Credits and Infrastructure. It is involved in financial reporting and accounting of investment holding companies, as well as operations and financial due diligence for asset operations.

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 ISPVM is responsible for all tax matters relating to the GIC Group and portfolio. GIC seeks to hire an Assistant Vice President for the Tax function within ISPVM in Singapore. Reporting to the VP, Asia Pacific Deals Tax, the individual will predominantly support the private investments in Real Estate and Infrastructure in the Asia Pacific region, most notably Australia, Japan, China and India.

**Responsibilities**
- Tax Support to GIC’s Private Investments asset classes in the Asia Pacific 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 Private Investments assets classes that invest in Asia Pacific, particularly real estate and infrastructure, across investment types (funds, co-investments and direct investment), and 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 across the Asia Pacific region
- 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
- As necessary, 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
- 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
- Assists in 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 knowledge and experience
- Promotes collaboration and issue resolution within and across teams

**Requirements**:

- A minimum of 8 years’ international a