Associate 2 – GS Client Operations (Capital Gains Tax) recruitment

Our Company

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors including investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading. With $21.807 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $1.866 trillion in assets under management at December 31, 2011, State Street operates in 29 countries and more than 100 geographic markets and employs 29,740 worldwide. For more information, visit State Street’s web site at www.statestreet.com

Promoting a culture of excellence

With more than 29,000 employees across 29 countries, at State Street, our people are our greatest asset. We recognize that highly skilled, engaged and productive employees are essential to our success. Our company values reflect our commitment to employee engagement, Global Inclusion and corporate social responsibility — to help you build a fulfilling career. Around the world, we aim to be an employer of choice by offering competitive compensation and benefits, personal and professional development opportunities, and a work environment that promotes a diverse array of people, ideas and skills.

We’re a company that insists on, and rewards, performance excellence. We know our success hinges on attracting the best people to join us — people like you.

We encourage you to explore the possibilities that a career at State Street can offer you.

State Street is committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Core

• Exhibit detailed understanding and execution of all A1 tasks and functions
• Take a pro-active interest in own training and development
• Develop expert knowledge of State Street systems
• Leverage strong working relationships built up with other teams/departments
• Perform more advanced work within the team and pro-actively assist others
• Liaise effectively with clients resolving issues timeously, and providing recognised service excellence
• Assist with controls and reviews within team
• Participate in projects impacting the wider group where possible
• Advanced query resolution, often working independently
• Provide on the job coaching for less experienced staff
• Actively participate in appraisal process by completing a self evaluation and suggesting appropriate development goals
• Ensure the line manager and others, as appropriate, are kept aware of all issues/problems/queries/work in progress that may impact the quality of service being provided
• Perform team housekeeping duties, filing, rota tasks

CGT Specific
• Preparation of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual CGT Computations
• Prepare calculations of CGT liabilities/reliefs in daily pricing
• Prepare current CGT position for forwards, currencies, futures and options
• Prepare holdings reconciliations between CGT system/accounting and funds/company as required
• Preparation and maintenance of procedures
• Assist with team projects as required

Skills/Experience
• Broad understanding of CGT principles relating to Life funds.
• Broad understanding of fund administration process
• Completion of CGT / Gains losses calculations in adherence with procedures for all funds
• Demonstrate good understanding of basic accounting principles
• Studying towards IAQ

State Street Job ID: 57378

Location: Edinburgh

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