About FNZ

FNZ is the market leading provider of technology and administration services to major financial institutions in the platform and wealth management sectors across the globe. We partner with life companies, banks, asset managers and discretionary wealth managers to enable them to develop and distribute financial products and services to their customers across all major distribution channels.

FNZ has a strong blue-chip customer base including Standard Life, Axa Wealth, JP Morgan, HSBC, AMP, National Australia Bank, Bank of New Zealand, Friends Life, Quilter, UBS, Zurich Financial and Close Brothers Asset Management. It has helped these customers grow to over £350 billion of platform assets in aggregate. FNZ now employs over 1300 people with offices in Edinburgh, London, Bristol, Brno (Czech Republic), Shanghai, Wellington and Sydney.

Role Description

• Work as part of the tax team to manage the global employment tax risks of FNZ.

• Provide timely support and clear employment tax advice to the Group Head of Tax, Chief HR Officer and the wider business.

• Review and if necessary implement new processes/controls for employment tax compliance globally.

• Support the global Finance and HR teams with employment tax compliance.

• Support the Global Head of Tax with the Group Tax Risk/Governance Policy.

• Work on ad hoc projects within the wider business such as acquisitions, structuring projects or entering in to new jurisdictions.

• Identification of and implementation of planning opportunities.

• Engagement and management of external specialists as appropriate for specialist projects.

• Provide / organise employment tax training for business.

• Support and develop other members of the tax team on employment taxes.

Specific Role Responsibilities

Tax Compliance:

• Provide oversight to ensure that employment tax compliance filings are met in a timely manner for all jurisdictions.

• Work collaboratively with the wider finance teams and HR teams to facilitate global employment tax return preparation and coordination.

Tax Advisory

• Act as the employment tax point of contact for global projects as required with support from Group Head of Tax.

• Act as advisor for the global business in all aspects of employment tax.

Experience Required

• Due to the technical nature of your role, it is essential that you are ACA/CA and/or CIOT qualified with demonstrable post qualification experience.

• This experience can be from either Practice, Industry or both, however exposure to International employment taxes would be required.

• You will be technically up-to-date on all taxes impacting the business.

• You will have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, being able to clearly articulate your points, as well as influence and negotiate at all levels. Furthermore, you will be comfortable educating and training others within the business and Group on tax related matters.

• You will have experience in dealing with senior leaders.

• You will be flexible and be able to adapt to a fast paced environment.

Opportunities

• Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world’s largest companies;

• Remuneration and career advancement is based on individual contribution and business impact rather than tenure or seniority;

• We provide significant financial rewards for high performing individuals; and

• We provide global career opportunities for our best employees at any of our offices in the UK, Europe.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.