Senior Tax Manager – Contract (Banking)

About the role

This contract position joins the Singapore tax team of a leading bank, providing end‑to‑end tax advice and management for the entity’s operations in Singapore. The role supports day‑to‑day tax compliance as well as strategic initiatives such as the Global Minimum Tax and Domestic Minimum Top‑up Tax.

Key responsibilities

• Manage corporate and institutional banking tax matters, including corporate income tax, withholding tax, GST and transfer pricing.
• Provide practical tax advice on products, transactions and business‑as‑usual activities.
• Support tax compliance, reporting and provisioning, including effective tax rate analysis and month‑end closing coordination.
• Lead implementation and compliance for Pillar Two and Singapore Domestic Minimum Top‑up Tax, handling data gathering, impact analysis and governance.
• Identify and drive process simplification opportunities with stakeholders.
• Assist with tax aspects of business change initiatives, risk mitigation and audit responses.
• Coordinate tax audits, inspections and queries from tax authorities.
• Support customer tax reporting obligations such as FATCA, CRS and QI.

Required profile

• Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field with a professional accounting qualification.
• Minimum 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).
• Working knowledge of OECD Pillar Two, Singapore DMTT, FATCA and CRS.
• Excellent analytical, judgment and problem‑solving abilities with high attention to detail.

Required skills

• Corporate income tax compliance
• Withholding tax
• GST
• Transfer pricing
• Tax provisioning
• Effective tax rate (ETR) analysis
• OECD Pillar Two / Global Minimum Tax
• Singapore Domestic Minimum Top‑up Tax (DMTT)
• FATCA
• Common Reporting Standard (CRS)