EMEA Commercial Director, Tax Solutions

Job Description

About the Role:Grade Level (for internal use):13 EMEA Commercial Director, Tax SolutionsThe Team:The EMEA Commercial Director will be a member of the high growth Tax Solutions team, which is responsible for delivering and maintaining tax technology, managed services, and professional services. You will be working with both new and existing clients acrossthe EMEA region, mainly traditional and emerging financial markets participants, to drive new business for a range of non-US operational tax regulations. This role will require collaboration with the global Sales, Commercial and Product teams and requiresa candidate with a commercial and entrepreneurial mindset, strong communication skills, resilience, excellent presentation skills and relevant tax subject manner expertise. In partnership with the global sales, commercial and product teams, the candidate will grow our business by informing the sales strategy, develop relationships across traditional and emerging financial market participants, work closely with the sales team andmentor staff. Core responsibilities include:

• Drive the strategy and revenue for the EMEA Tax Solutions business in relation to the European Unions FASTER Initiative, TRACE, Germanand other non-US reclaim and relief at source regimes.
• Demonstrate understanding of the S&P Tax Solutions suite of services and work collaboratively with Tax subject matter experts to position client solutions that solves customers tax related challenge(s)
• Collaborate with broader internal stakeholders (Account Managers, Commercial Leads, wider business partners) to realize synergies between Tax Solutions and broader S&P Global product set
• Experience with the US Qualified Intermediary (QI) and Qualified Derivatives Dealer (QDD) regimes
• Strengthen and develop relationships with stakeholders at existing and target customers
• Cultivate sector, product and technical expertise to be able to curate new business opportunities arising from tax driven regulatory changes and synergies with other business lines within Enterprise Solutions of S&P Global Market Intelligence
• Assist in demonstrations of solutions and tools to targets and clients, including post implementation client support through training and consulting services
• Travel, as necessary, to assist sales and business development team in the pursuit of opportunities and engagements
• Be entrepreneurial -- stay current with industry news to develop initiatives and attract prospects

What Were Looking For: Experience in the following areas is desired but not required:

• Commercially driven individual with a high work ethic and confidence to work autonomously
• Prior experience in a client-facing role with ownership of strategy and revenue targets
• Experience with tax reclaims and relief at source and the EUs FASTER initiative
• Experience with the FATCA and QI regimes and OECD driven initiatives including CRS, CARF, MDR, TRACE
• Interest in regulatory developments affecting operational tax compliance
• Strong network of contacts in the financial services industry
• Must be organized and able to manage multiple projects and relationships in parallel
• Strong teamwork, written and verbal communication skills
• Positive, proactive attitude and ability to work well in teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS/BA or operational taxes experience required
• More than ten years of experience in tax ideally within operational taxes and/or provision of tax advisory services for the aforementioned regimes

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