Tax Senior Manager

As a Vice President in the Tax Advisory and Compliance team, you will take ownership of delivering high-quality tax support for Barclays’ International Corporate Banking business, with a primary focus on European operations and some UK coverage. You will provide strategic tax advisory services and ensure compliance across a range of cross-border initiatives, particularly those arising from international corporate banking activities. A key part of your role will involve supporting the merchant acquiring legal entity, Barclays International Payments Limited, where you will help navigate complex tax issues and ensure alignment with evolving regulatory requirements.

You will act as a trusted advisor to local tax teams across Europe, offering guidance, sense-checking positions, and ensuring consistency in tax treatment across jurisdictions. Your ability to interpret tax legislation and apply it to real-world business scenarios will be critical in supporting both proactive planning and reactive compliance.

To be considered for this role you will have gaineda recognised tax and/or accountancy qualification eg. CTA / ACA. Previous experience gained in Corporate Tax will be advantageous.You will have excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate complex information in a clear and concise manor.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is deemed as a Controlled Function role under the Central Bank of Ireland Fitness and Probity Regulations and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.

Purpose of the role

To provide both corporate and indirect advisory and compliance tax services to   business areas in a specific jurisdiction(s).  

Accountabilities

• Management of tax risks arising from the bank's business activities, investments, and financial transactions and development of tax risk management strategies to mitigate potential tax liabilities and protect the bank's financial interests and reputation.
• Analysis of complex tax issues to support tax planning strategies, compliance matters, and risk management initiatives.
• Liaising, with tax authorities and resolving legacy tax risks.
• Identification and assessment of potential tax risks associated with complex transactions (including potential mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring) and development and implementation of tax risk mitigation strategies to minimise the potential impact.
• Stakeholder management to ensure that tax requirements and the associated risks are understood and appropriately managed, including reputational risks with tax authorities and external stakeholders.
• Analysis of relevant developments in tax law to ensure the impact on Barclays is understood and appropriately managed.
• Preparation or review of relevant tax returns in accordance with applicable tax law and agreeing compliance positions with the tax authorities.
• Preparation or review of tax accounting calculations and disclosures in accordance with applicable accounting standards for group forecasting, reporting and stress testing.
• Design and operation of tax process controls to ensure tax risk is appropriately managed and tax treatments can be supported.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.