Life Tax Senior Administrator (Senior Associate)
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Business lead for projects involving life tax, most notably implementing the life tax application for a prominent client.• Main contact for tax technical queries from all locations of the life tax team including Edinburgh, London and Poland. Consistently mentoring staff by knowledge sharing and delegating tasks.• As SME for life tax I created and presented training materials for internal and external teams. Delivering directly and indirectly to approximately one hundred staff in the pricing teams.• Assisting with investigations to ensure accuracy and deadlines are met in the face of extreme pressure. Consistently finding the root case of out of tolerance movements at computation time without the need to escalate to managers.• Identifying and highlighting inconsistencies in processes and resolving them. Updating and reviewing workbook updates for fund launches, closures, mergers and year-end.• Business Continuity Planning representative for Life Tax Team. During travel disruption from the beast from the east in early 2018 our team was one of few teams to suffer no loss of productivity, receiving high praise from senior management.• Assisting manager with client meetings, deliverables, preparing KPI/MI information, responding to queries from clients, pricing and auditors.• Allocating tasks to associate level staff via team calendar and change log, reviewing all output produced by the team.• Interviewed candidates for permanent and intern positions within the life tax team.