Quality Assurance Director (Legal & Tax)

Quality Assurance Director (Legal & Tax)

Department: Business Excellence Center

Reports to: Director Business Excellence Center

Job purpose

The Quality Assurance Director (Legal & Tax) is engaged in the overall quality of the provision of services with a specific focus on legal and tax matters. You will be responsible to develop and maintain a legal & tax quality framework and keeping our template toolbox up to date. In addition, you will be providing guidance and sharing knowledge with the Business Excellence Center and client teams resulting in a proper completion of the tax integrity analysis in our client risk assessment. Finally, you will ensure that risk management is incorporated in the operational management of the business, appropriate risk mitigating measures and effective assurance mechanisms are implemented and maintained.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a legal & tax quality framework for TMF Netherlands;
• Deliver an active contribution to improve the professional legal & tax knowledge of our staff. This includes active involvement with development, improvement and maintenance of procedures, templates, soft and hard copy libraries and other know how resources;
• Ensure our template toolbox is kept up to date;
• Provide guidance to the Business Excellence Center and client teams and review the Tax Integrity Section of our Client Risk Assessment form for client acceptance and Mandate review;
• Lead and influence the development of a positive risk management culture by seeking continuous improvement and efficiencies;
• Proactively identify, prioritize and interpret operational risks. Manage risks using risk management tools, processes and methods;
• Responsible for the annual SIRA update for TMF Netherlands;
• Developing trainings (content-wise), share knowledge and educate stakeholders;
• Involved in obtaining and the preservation of recognized Certification of Assurance

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in law or Economics or solid relevant professional experience;
• > 10 years of relevant work experience in the financial services industry, preferably
• with a corporate service provider;
• Up to Date knowledge on legal and tax developments including tax integrity;
• Good understanding of the management of risk and assurance frameworks;
• Good stakeholder management skills;
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills. Preference if you speak Dutch;
• Experience with MS office and database knowledge

Competencies

Operation excellence:

• Is fully aware of business trends/changes in law that will impact their role and where appropriate, influencing policy change.
• Expected to introduce best-in-class processes that may leverage resources across the
• Group to support the organisation’s future growth ambitions
• Able to demonstrate accountability for delivery for self and immediate team.
• Will make decisions that will be aligned to the goals of a large part of the organisation.
• Able to successfully plan and deliver short to medium-term projects.
• Recognised within a large part of the organisation as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in their specialist area, is knowledgeable on day to day activities and is sought by others for advice.

Commercial awareness:

• Will understand the financial implications of decisions on the wider team or the functional level.
• Question and challenge the value being delivered through commercial arrangements (internal or external).
• Will consider internal and external market economics on both TMF Group and customer when undertaking day to day activities.
• Able to weigh up and prioritize the benefits of different actions and activities and how
• to achieve cost effective outcomes.
• Expected to design control, risk and governance frameworks for immediate business
• area.
• Leadership and Resource Management:
• Will lead by example, communicating in a truthful, straightforward manner with integrity
• in line with the TMF Group culture.

Able to:

• develop a resource structure to deliver on local strategy and,
• build a high performing, collaborative team by identifying, developing, deploying and retaining top talent.
• Will articulate to staff the long-term vision of the immediate team and support them through any change.
• Support the up-skilling of team through
• sharing of knowledge, best practice and coaching and
• ensuring that appropriate development plans are in place for colleagues across the wider team.

• Understands what motivates individuals to successfully drive individual and team performance.
• Stand by, promote or defend own and team’s actions and decisions where needed.
• Interpersonal Skills:
• Highly articulate and able to communicate complex ideas in a simple, easy-to understand manner.
• Engages and builds credibility with influential individuals both internally and externally and will leverage relationships to gain input and/or buy-in for initiatives.
• Able to negotiate and influence individuals at all levels within TMF Group.

Is able to tactfully deal with situations should they arise in the immediate team.

Will challenge constructively and make difficult decisions.

Applications close: 27 May 2022 W. Europe Daylight Time

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