Vice President, Private Markets Tax

London, United Kingdom

BlackRock is seeking an experienced tax professional to join its global Private Markets Tax Team in London. This opportunity has arisen to replace a departing Vice President and offers the chance to play a key role in supporting one of the world’s most sophisticated private markets platforms.

This is a high-impact, in-house position focused on tax advisory, structuring, compliance, and transaction support across a broad range of private markets activities, with particular emphasis on private equity, secondaries, and hedge fund-of-funds solutions.

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About BlackRock

BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, publicly listed under the ticker BLK and headquartered in New York. Across its global platform, BlackRock helps millions of people invest for their future and supports businesses, infrastructure, and innovation worldwide.

The Private Markets business is responsible for investment management, strategic planning, and oversight across BlackRock’s $450+ billion alternatives platform.

Private Markets capabilities include:

• Private equity solutions

• Infrastructure solutions

• Secondaries solutions

• Direct private equity and venture capital

• Private credit (including mortgage securitization, CLOs, and direct lending)

• Private infrastructure (equity and debt)

• Real estate (equity and debt)

• Hedge fund solutions

• Alternative solutions

• Direct hedge funds

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The Team

You will join BlackRock’s global Private Markets Tax Team, a specialist group of more than 30 professionals located across the US, UK, and Hong Kong. The team is co-led by two Managing Directors based in New York and works closely with the broader Product Tax function.

This role offers significant international exposure, with regular collaboration across regions including EMEA, the US, and Asia-Pacific.

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The Opportunity

This position is designed for a tax professional who enjoys combining technical depth with commercial judgment. You will advise on fund and investment structuring, review tax-sensitive legal documentation, oversee compliance work, and support new product development across complex alternative investment strategies.

The role combines strategic advisory work with hands-on execution and will suit someone comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-visibility environment.

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What You’ll Be Doing

Core responsibilities

• Provide practical tax support to BlackRock’s private markets business teams

• Advise on new product development, including:

• fund structuring

• product strategy

• tax structuring

• review of legal and commercial documentation

• Support ongoing tax oversight for funds, fund complexes, and related investment vehicles

• Advise on investment acquisitions, underlying structures, and transaction strategies

• Review and negotiate tax aspects of transaction and fund documentation with legal and tax advisers

• Conduct tax due diligence on selected investments and help mitigate identified tax risks

• Design and assess investment holding structures, including understanding the broader impact of fund structuring decisions

• Oversee external advisers, including Big 4 firms and law firms supporting transactions and reporting

• Monitor domestic and international tax developments and assess their implications for funds and structures

• Build scalable tax processes and procedures as the private markets platform continues to expand

• Partner with the wider Product Tax team on issues affecting BlackRock’s broader product range

Documentation and stakeholder engagement

• Review tax provisions in legal and fund documents

• Communicate with investors and investment sponsors on tax-related requests and queries

• Support client relations, sales, and marketing teams with client-facing tax communications, including interactions with prospective investors

• Engage on tax-related provisions in LPAs, PPMs, side letters, and transactional agreements

Compliance oversight

• Assist with oversight of EMEA tax reporting compliance, particularly work outsourced to external advisers

• Support reporting requirements such as:

• German CFC reporting

• PFIC reporting

• Swiss Transfer Tax reporting

• and other relevant European tax compliance obligations

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Reporting Line

The successful candidate will report directly to a Managing Director in New York. That Managing Director reports to the co-head of the Private Markets Tax Team, who in turn reports to BlackRock’s Global Head of Tax.

The role involves close collaboration with both the global Private Markets Tax Team and the wider Product Tax Team.

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What BlackRock Is Looking For

Required experience

• Experience gained in:

• a law firm

• a Big 4 accountancy firm

• or in-house at a private markets asset manager

• Strong understanding of the tax aspects of private funds and fund-of-funds

• Experience across alternatives, particularly:

• hedge funds

• private equity

• secondaries

• Knowledge of fund and SPV structures used in alternative investments

• Experience reviewing tax provisions in:

• LPAs

• PPMs

• side letters

• purchase and sale agreements

• other relevant transactional documents

• At least 5 years’ relevant experience

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Key Strengths for Success

This is a visible and commercially connected role that requires both technical excellence and strong interpersonal capability.

You will likely thrive if you:

• Can explain complex tax matters clearly and succinctly to a range of audiences

• Are confident working with:

• senior internal stakeholders

• cross-border teams

• multidisciplinary project groups

• external advisers

• Bring strong commercial awareness alongside technical judgment

• Are comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment

• Enjoy building efficient, well-governed tax processes within a growing platform

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Why Join BlackRock

At BlackRock, employees are supported through a broad and thoughtful benefits offering designed to promote long-term well-being, development, and flexibility.

Benefits include:

• Retirement planning tools and investment support

• Education reimbursement

• Resources for physical health and emotional well-being

• Family support programs

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) to rest, recharge, and focus on what matters most

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Hybrid Working Model

BlackRock operates a hybrid working model that supports both flexibility and in-person collaboration. Employees are currently expected to work at least 4 days per week in the office, with flexibility to work from home 1 day per week.

For new joiners, this model is intended to accelerate learning, support onboarding, and create more opportunities for collaboration, development, and mentorship.

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Our Purpose

BlackRock is united by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. The firm’s clients — and the people they serve — are saving for retirement, funding education, buying homes, and building businesses. Through its investments, BlackRock also helps strengthen the global economy by supporting companies, financing infrastructure, and backing innovation.

That mission is powered by BlackRock’s people. The firm is committed to creating an environment where employees feel welcome, valued, and supported, with access to networks, development opportunities, and benefits that help them thrive.

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Equal Opportunity

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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Learn More

• Website: BlackRock

• Twitter / X: @blackrock

• LinkedIn: BlackRock on LinkedIn

If you are looking to take on a highly visible tax role within a world-leading private markets platform, this is an exceptional opportunity to contribute at scale, work internationally, and help shape the future of BlackRock’s alternatives business.