Commercial support

• You will join sales calls and product demonstrations when a prospect's compliance team wants a practitioner in the room, and you will handle the technical questions that go beyond the product script.
• You will help new clients map their existing structures onto the platform during onboarding.
• You will contribute, when invited, to webinars, articles, conference panels and client briefings.

Technical resource

• You will act as a technical resource to our client-facing team, and you will brief them on developments such as the amended CRS and the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework.
• You will be available to clients' compliance officers and responsible officers when they need a considered view on a difficult question.

About you

• You have spent a substantial part of your career, typically ten years or more, in the trust and fiduciary industry. That may be at a trust company, a corporate service provider, a private bank's fiduciary arm, or a professional firm advising that sector.
• You have hands-on experience of the full FATCA and CRS compliance cycle for trusts and fiduciary structures. That includes entity classification, identification of controlling persons and equity interest holders, self-certification review, due diligence on new and pre-existing accounts, registration and annual reporting.
• You have prepared or reviewed FATCA and CRS reporting in the prescribed XML formats, and you have dealt with validation errors, corrected and voided records, and nil returns.
• You have handled FATCA registration and GIIN maintenance, including sponsored entities and trustee-documented trusts. You have also registered and reported through a local AEOI portal in at least one jurisdiction.
• You have dealt directly with a tax authority or regulator on AEOI matters, whether in an inspection, a compliance review, a remediation exercise or a voluntary disclosure.
• You know the Model 1 and Model 2 IGA framework and the CRS Commentary well enough to explain why a structure is classified as it is, and to defend that position to a regulator or an auditor.
• You have worked directly in at least one major trust jurisdiction, such as Jersey, Guernsey, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Switzerland or Liechtenstein, and you are familiar with several others.
• You write precise technical memoranda in English, and you can explain the same analysis in plain terms to a client or a colleague in sales.
• You can take on assignments at short notice, and you can do so free of conflicts with any current employer or client.

Advantages

• A legal, accountancy or STEP qualification, or experience as a FATCA responsible officer, will be an advantage.
• Knowledge of US Chapter 3 withholding and QI documentation, including Forms W-8 and W-9, will be an advantage, as will exposure to fund administration.

What we offer

We offer a daily or hourly rate and fully remote work. You will work with an established platform and a client base of licensed fiduciaries in several international finance centers. The engagement may expand as the business grows.