Tax, VP (1-year Contract)

Join a leading global bank as Tax, VP (1-year contract). This role will be part of the Singapore tax team, advising and managing the taxation matters of the bank's entities in Singapore. The role covers end-to-end Singapore tax matters across business-as-usual activities and change initiatives, and includes support for global minimum tax requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Support taxation matters of the businesses in Singapore, with a focus on corporate and institutional banking.
• Partner with stakeholders to execute tax related priorities including practical tax advice on products and transactions.
• Support tax compliance obligations (including corporate income tax, withholding tax, GST, transfer pricing) and ensure that robust controls and documentation are maintained.
• Support tax reporting deliverables, including tax provisioning, effective tax rate analysis and coordination with various stakeholders on month-end closing and audit requirements.
• Support implementation and compliance activities relating to Pillar Two and Domestic Minimum Top-up Tax (DMTT), including data gathering, impact analysis, coordination with Finance and Group/Regional Tax, and support for any related reporting, governance and control requirements.
• Proactively identify process simplification opportunities and support sustainable adoption with stakeholders.
• Work closely on tax matters involving business change initiatives, including supporting tax analysis and mitigating tax risks as well as stakeholder coordination.
• Work closely on tax audits / inspections and manage responses to queries from tax authorities, including coordinating information requests and supporting solution strategies.
• Support customer tax reporting matters (FATCA / CRS / QI) in partnership with relevant teams
• Ad-hoc projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Degree holder in Accounting, Finance or related disciplines with professional accounting qualification.
• At least 10 years of professional tax experience gained, preferably with banks or financial institutions
• Familiarity with tax accounting concepts and practices (e.g., current/deferred tax, tax provisioning, ETR drivers, audit support) and ability to work effectively with Finance stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of OECD Pillar Two / Global Minimum Tax and Singapore Domestic Minimum Top-up Tax (DMTT) concepts, with the ability to support data requirements and compliance activities.
• Strong technical and commercial understanding of how Tax impacts the businesses, knowledge of FATCA and Common Reporting Standard (CRS)
• Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability of excellent stakeholder management, working effectively across teams and problem solving with the confidence to make measured and commercial decisions which may have far reaching implications
• Sound judgment, decision making and problem solving abilities
• Strong analytical ability with attention to detail, able to maintain the highest levels of accuracy and adherence to standards and policies.