Senior Associate – Tax Specialist (Group Finance)

About the role

Join DBS' Group Tax team as a Senior Associate and develop a comprehensive tax career within the banking and financial services industry. You will handle cross‑border tax compliance and advisory matters, with a focus on Transfer Pricing (TP) and US Qualified Intermediary (QI) withholding taxes.

Key responsibilities

• Perform TP and US QI compliance, preparing Master and Local Files, conducting assurance testing and submitting regulatory filings on time.
• Provide transactional tax advisory support to business units, analysing complex tax implications of global TP and US QI regulations.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders to embed TP and US QI rules into business processes and strengthen governance frameworks.
• Support transfer pricing audit defence, dispute resolution, and periodic QI reviews.
• Assist in reconciling related‑party transaction data and maintaining compliance checklists and procedural manuals.
• Conduct internal health‑checks, track remediation of audit findings, and ensure tax audit readiness.
• Respond to tax authority queries during audits and support tax ruling applications.
• Undertake ad‑hoc projects as assigned by senior team members.

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.
• 3–5 years of experience in transfer pricing, withholding tax or international tax, ideally from a Big 4 professional services firm.
• Strong analytical mindset, high motivation, adaptability and fast learning ability.

Required skills

• Transfer Pricing compliance and documentation.
• US Qualified Intermediary (QI) withholding tax compliance.
• Tax advisory and audit defence.
• Regulatory submission and assurance testing.
• Reconciliation of related‑party transaction data.