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About the Role
DRW is seeking a Senior Tax Associate in London to support the Tax Director with the firm's European tax profile, focusing on indirect tax (VAT) and corporate income tax for trading and operating entities.
Responsibilities
- Oversee day-to-day VAT compliance for UK and European entities, including reviewing deliverables from external providers.
- Manage VAT registrations, fiscal representation, and cross-border issues as the firm's European presence expands.
- Monitor UK and European indirect tax law developments (e.g., ViDA, e-invoicing, financial services VAT exemptions) and provide practical guidance.
- Collaborate with Finance and Operations on VAT recovery, partial exemption, and ERP/tax engine configuration.
- Review new business proposals from a tax perspective with Business Management.
- Support UK and European corporate tax compliance cycles, including reviewing computations and returns from external advisors.
- Assist with quarterly and year-end tax provisioning under IFRS and/or US GAAP for European entities.
- Coordinate with global tax colleagues in the US on cross-regional matters.
Requirements
- Approximately 5 years of post-qualification tax experience in Big 4/mid-tier practice, in-house tax, or a combination.
- ACA or CTA qualified (or recognized non-UK equivalent).
- Demonstrable UK VAT technical strength, including cross-border service flows and ideally financial services or trading industry VAT issues (partial exemption, financial services exemption scope, commodity trading).
- Working knowledge of UK corporate tax and ability to research continental European tax issues.
- Comfort operating independently in a lean team, managing external advisors, and prioritizing multiple workstreams.
Skills
- VAT compliance
- VAT registrations
- Fiscal representation
- Cross-border tax issues
- Indirect tax law monitoring
- ERP/tax engine configuration
- Corporate tax compliance
- Tax provisioning
- IFRS
- US GAAP
- Financial services VAT
- Trading industry VAT
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5 years post-qualification tax experience
Education Level
- ACA qualified
- CTA qualified
About the Company
- DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience, combining technology and people to operate in global markets.
- The firm values autonomy and agility, operating with its own capital and at its own risk.
- Headquartered in Chicago with global offices, DRW trades Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities, and Energy.
- DRW has expanded into real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.
- The company culture emphasizes respect, curiosity, open minds, high expectations, integrity, innovation, and challenging consensus.