Senior Associate / Associate, Tax Specialist, Group Finance

About the role

DBS Group Finance aims to deliver world-class standards in reporting, financial planning and finance processes, and provides tax and accounting advisory services. This role offers the chance to join the Group Tax team and build a tax career in banking and financial services, supporting cross-border tax compliance and advisory matters across the bank, with a focus on Transfer Pricing (TP) and US withholding taxes.

Key responsibilities

• Support seniors in the Group Tax team with Transfer Pricing (TP) and US Qualified Intermediary (QI) compliance, including collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders on documentation, assurance testing and regulatory submission.
• Provide transactional tax advisory support to business units under senior supervision, evaluating complex tax implications of global TP and US QI regulations.
• Help operationalise TP and US QI rules into business processes, strengthen governance frameworks and manage operational tax risks.
• Support the bank's transfer pricing audit defence, dispute resolution, QI periodic reviews and tax ruling applications.
• Assist in reconciling related party transaction data and preparing TP documentation (Master and Local Files).
• Support US QI withholding tax compliance, including guiding Business/Operations teams on documentation, withholding and reporting.
• Update procedural manuals, compliance checklists and operating models, conduct internal health checks and track remediation of audit findings.
• Assist with queries from tax authorities during audits and other ad-hoc projects.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related field.
• Professional qualification such as SCTP, ISCA, ACA/ACCA (preferred but not mandatory).
• Transfer pricing, withholding tax and/or international experience, ideally from a Big 4 firm for 3 to 5 years; relevant industry exposure is an advantage.
• Strong research, analytical and lateral-thinking skills, and a confident communicator with internal and external stakeholders.

Required skills

• Advanced Microsoft Excel.
• Familiarity with analytics software and/or AI tools is an advantage.