JPMorgan Product Administration – Tax & Distribution Associate - 

Luxembourg 

664421221

As a Product Administration – Tax & Distribution Associate you will join the Product Administration team which develops and exercises the fund oversight required from us as a UCITS Management Company and AIFM through monitoring of the operational activity on the fund range, management of the third party service providers and ownership of the audit & consultancy relationships, including monitoring Fund Administration service provision delivered by our key Fund Administrators, custodians and depositaries, management of all control related matters (valuation, swing pricing, dividend distributions, fund calendars, tax oversight etc.) , management of statutory/regulatory reporting, management of Financial Statements and Long Form process, Management of Audit/Consultancy/Publication budgets, monitoring of publication of legal requirements (prices, prospectuses, notices etc.), monitoring of fund prices delivery, management of NAV error remediation process , management of operational interaction with the funds’ Boards of Directors.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist the Product Administration team in maintaining both a robust and efficient tax oversight model covering tax risk and tax compliance as well as coordinating dividend distributions and being the gate keeper for dividend rates management, in particular this means:
• Exercise key monitoring controls of the activities performed by our key service providers involved in tax production of daily and annual tax investor data principally for Germany, UK, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and India
• Liaise with fund administrators, tax representatives and auditors to support fund tax reporting agenda, assisting in complying with tax documentation requirements and optimisation of fund assets
• Monitor tax reporting requirements of the funds in EMEA region
• Coordinate dividend distribution and dividend rate calculation process and maintain existing controls. This involves liaising with a number of internal parties including product development teams and investment desks as well as transfer agents and fund administrators

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills:

• Be familiar with fund tax reporting across EMEA region, double tax treaties and capital gain taxes. Understanding of fund accounting principles is essential, in particular around income.
• Demonstrate strong organization skills, rigor and solid Excel knowledge
• Analytical, inquisitive, interested in learning
• Demonstrate responsibility and dependability, show strong team spirit
• Show positive attitude to compliance and controls
• Demonstrate flexibility
• Show strong accuracy and attention to details
• Have 3+ years exposure to the fund industry, ideally in a tax environment
• Proven track record in internal and external relationship management and communication
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills:

• Experience in overseeing 3^rdparty service providers is a plus