Managing Tax Counsel

Take hold of a monster opportunity and join our Finance and Tax team as a Managing Tax Counsel. If you're a good fit for this role we'd love you to apply.

Why join us?

• You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
• Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
• Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
• In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

About the role

As a Managing Tax Counsel, you will be accountable for delivery of Fund investments tax outcomes. You will be accountable to supervise, coach and develop team members providing domestic and offshore investment structure tax advice, and meeting the compliance obligations associated with those investments. You will also be accountable for the continuous improvement of this function, and the development of appropriate supporting tax policies and practices.

Day to day, you'll:

• Deliver tax advice, tax filings, etc., outcomes within the required timeframes.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including:
• ART investment team members
• External advisors (local and offshore)
• Service providers such as custodians
• Internal functions such as our governance and finance teams.
• Stay up to date with tax developments relevant to investment structures and brief relevant tax team members and stakeholders accordingly.
• Ensure ART tax controls are effective and functioning as intended.
• Support ART and industry submissions to Government on tax design (as agreed with your leader).
• Ensure compliance with revenue authority reporting and payment obligations, or support others in meeting these obligations through your deliverables.
• Lead, mentor, and develop assigned tax team members.
• Maintain and update tax technical guides, process maps, and operating procedures for Fund investment processes and governance.
• Escalate any unacceptable tax risks or issues affecting team effectiveness to your leader.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement within the tax team and across ART where possible.

This role is available as a permanent/ full-time opportunity.

About you

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

• A relevant qualification in legal, accounting, business or commerce.
• Demonstrated experience in delivery of tax advisory and compliance services related to significant value investments in Australia and offshore.
• Experience in either within a professional services firm or major corporate or fund environment including knowledge and experience of tax effect accounting.
• Experience in leading and mentoring staff to successfully achieve organisational objectives.
• A highly developed ability to provide advice, options and support to senior management and other key stakeholders to ensure the integration of strategic business and financial processes.
• Excellent influencing skills, well-developed communication skills and a high degree of initiative and motivation.

About us

Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of over $330 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you'll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

Apply online now

Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now. Applications close .

We don't want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you'll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you've made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us – and recruitment is no different.