EMEA VAT Manager

Overview
Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity.

With 4,500+ employees and over 300,000 commercial, institutional, payments, and retail clients, we operate from more than 70 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, StoneX Group is made up of four business segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Position Purpose
: The EMEA VAT Manager will play a key role in overseeing VAT provision preparation, and managing VAT compliance across multiple jurisdictions in Europe, Middle East and Africa ("EMEA"), and ensuring adherence to all applicable VAT laws and regulations.

Responsibilities
Responsible for the VAT compliance for a number of European entities:

• UK VAT compliance
• Undertaking the monthly invoice review
• Reviewing the partial exemption calculation including trade counts
• Preparing monthly VAT calculations
• Booking monthly VAT journals into oracle
• Maintenance of the VAT ledger and signing-off monthly VAT balance sheet
• Preparing and submitting the quarterly VAT return
• Preparation and submission of Capital Goods Scheme adjustments
• Preparation and submission of Annual Adjustment adjustments
• Preparing the monthly VAT calculation for subsidiary UK entities
• Preparing the quarterly VAT return for subsidiary UK entities
• Non-UK VAT compliance
• Preparing monthly VAT calculations for non-UK VAT returns (Poland, Cyprus and Ireland)
• Co-ordinate with external advisers with the preparation of non-UK VAT returns (Poland,

Cyprus, and Ireland)

• Preparing monthly VAT and submitting VAT returns for any new legal entities created
• VAT process improvement
• Writing VAT process documentation
• Improve VAT environment through process enhancement
• VAT ad hoc tasks
• Supporting VAT queries raised in external audit and from tax authorities
• Obtaining new VAT registrations with support from external advisers
• Researching/advising on VAT planning opportunities
• Reviewing applicability of a VAT Group registration
• VAT advice in connection with commercial transactions and group re-organisations
• Maintenance of VAT calendar

Qualifications
Qualifications:
Education:

• Bachelor's degree in finance/accounting, CPA, CMA, or tax qualification

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of post-qualification experience in a public accounting firm and/or

commercial environment

• Exposure to monthly VAT provision preparation and multi-jurisdictional VAT compliance
• Financial services company experience

Technology:

• Excellent excel skills (vlookup, xlookup, sumifs, index match, concat, textjoin)
• Familiarity with using oracle

Other Relevant Skills:

• Excellent communication and client-servicing skills
• Ability to build rapport with colleagues in tax and across various teams and business units - Adept at prioritizing tasks and maintaining productivity in high-pressure situations
• Good problem solving
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to handle and manipulate complex data sets
• Ability to work independently and in a stand-alone role
• Ability to be in London for 3 – 6 months for an initial training period

Working environment:
Hybrid (4 days a week in the office)

Why Join StoneX Inc.?
At StoneX Inc., we value innovation, integrity, and excellence. As a VAT Manager, you will have the opportunity to:

• Grow professionally with access to a senior global tax team
• Work in a collaborative and diverse global environment
• Contribute to the success of a dynamic and expanding organization