Vice President Tax Compliance and Financial Reporting
DBS Bank Ltd is a Singapore-based bank providing personal, SME, corporate, institutional, wealth management, financial markets, and digital banking services. Its clients include consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, corporations, and institutional customers.
About DBS Bank Ltd
DBS Bank Ltd provides banking products and services including accounts, cards, insurance, loans, investments, digital banking, payments, trade finance, foreign exchange, commodities, investment solutions, and derivatives clearing. Through its SME business, it supports businesses with financing, cash-flow management, online banking through DBS IDEAL, sustainability programmes, and business-growth initiatives. The bank serves personal customers, SMEs, corporate and institutional clients, and wealth-management customers across its regional markets.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will manage Australian tax filings, tax provisioning, financial reporting, and control processes. You will maintain tax governance, support strategic tax and finance advice, coordinate with Group Tax and external advisors, coach stakeholders, and resolve tax and financial-reporting matters promptly.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of tax compliance experience in financial services or a Big 4 accounting firm
- Experience in an ADI or foreign ADI banking environment
- Chartered Accountant or CPA qualification
- Strong knowledge of Australian tax compliance and reporting requirements
- Experience in tax accounting, financial reporting, and finance controls
- Ability to interpret accounting and regulatory standards
- Stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
- Analytical capability and attention to detail
Responsibilities
- Manage preparation and lodgement of Australian tax filings
- Oversee tax provisioning, tax accounting, and reporting
- Support month-end close activities and maintain general ledger and balance sheet reconciliations
- Prepare and review statutory financial statement disclosures
- Ensure compliance with internal controls and financial reporting standards
- Maintain and enhance the Tax Risk Management and Governance Framework
- Strengthen finance controls across tax and reporting processes
- Advise on tax, transfer pricing, and financial reporting implications of strategic initiatives
- Coach finance and business teams on tax and finance requirements
- Engage stakeholders and drive issue escalation and resolution