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.

• 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.

• 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.