Tax, VP

Location: Singapore

Industry: Banking & Finance

Salary: SGD 10,000 – 13,000

This role sits within a Singapore tax team and is responsible for advising on and managing end-to-end Singapore taxation matters across business-as-usual activity and change initiatives, with a particular focus on corporate and institutional banking. You will provide practical, commercial tax support on products and transactions, ensuring strong governance, controls and documentation, and supporting global minimum tax requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Advise internal stakeholders on Singapore tax matters affecting banking products, transactions and business priorities.
• Support tax compliance obligations including corporate income tax, withholding tax, GST and transfer pricing, ensuring robust controls and audit-ready documentation.
• Deliver tax reporting requirements including tax provisioning, effective tax rate analysis, and coordination with month-end close and audit stakeholders.
• Support implementation and ongoing compliance for OECD Pillar Two and Singapore Domestic Minimum Top-up Tax (DMTT), including data gathering, impact analysis, reporting and control requirements.
• Identify and drive process simplification opportunities and support sustainable adoption of improved processes.
• Partner on business change initiatives to assess tax impacts, mitigate tax risks and coordinate cross-functional actions.
• Support tax audits/inspections, including managing responses to tax authority queries and coordinating information requests.
• Support customer tax reporting matters (FATCA/CRS/QI) in partnership with relevant teams.
• Contribute to ad-hoc projects as required.

Requirements

• Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline; professional accounting qualification preferred.
• Minimum 10 years’ relevant tax experience, ideally within banking or financial services.
• Strong knowledge of Singapore corporate tax, withholding tax, GST and transfer pricing compliance and controls.
• Sound understanding of tax accounting (current/deferred tax, provisioning, ETR drivers) and ability to partner effectively with Finance teams.
• Working knowledge of OECD Pillar Two/Global Minimum Tax and DMTT concepts, with capability to support data and compliance requirements.
• Knowledge of FATCA and Common Reporting Standard (CRS); familiarity with QI requirements advantageous.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with confidence to make measured commercial decisions.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and commitment to high standards and policy adherence.