Vice President, Tax – Banking (Singapore)

About the role

The Vice President, Tax will support taxation matters for a banking business in Singapore, focusing on corporate and institutional banking. You will partner with stakeholders to provide practical tax advice on products, transactions and regulatory changes.

Key responsibilities

• Provide tax advice on banking products and transactions, ensuring compliance with corporate income tax, withholding tax, GST and transfer pricing rules.
• Maintain robust tax controls, documentation and support tax reporting deliverables, including tax provisioning and effective tax rate analysis.
• Lead implementation and compliance activities for OECD Pillar Two and Singapore Domestic Minimum Top‑up Tax (DMTT), coordinating data gathering, impact analysis and reporting.
• Identify and drive process simplification opportunities and support sustainable adoption across the business.
• Assist business change initiatives with tax analysis, risk mitigation and stakeholder coordination.
• Manage tax audits and inspections, coordinating responses to tax authority queries.
• Support customer tax reporting matters such as FATCA, CRS and QI in partnership with relevant teams.
• Execute ad‑hoc tax projects as assigned.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
• At least 10 years of professional tax experience, preferably within banks or financial institutions.
• Strong understanding of tax accounting concepts (current/deferred tax, tax provisioning, ETR drivers) and ability to work with finance stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of OECD Pillar Two, Global Minimum Tax and Singapore DMTT.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across multidisciplinary teams.

Required skills

• Corporate income tax
• Withholding tax
• Goods and Services Tax (GST)
• Transfer pricing
• Tax provisioning and effective tax rate analysis
• OECD Pillar Two / Global Minimum Tax
• Singapore Domestic Minimum Top‑up Tax (DMTT)
• FATCA
• Common Reporting Standard (CRS)
• Qualified Intermediary (QI) reporting