Director, Client Tax Information

JOB SUMMARY

• The purpose of this role is to support the AEOI stream lead and provide tax technical advisory and support to both Standard Chartered (SC) group and countries stakeholders associated with client tax information reporting regimes (e.g. FATCA and CRS), US withholding and reporting including Chapter 3 and 61 of U.S. Internal Revenue Code and QI agreement (“Regimes”) and Crypto Assets Reporting Framework (CARF).

RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy
Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model.  In relation to Central Tax Information (CTI) which is the subject matter expert on client tax information regimes and CARF, this includes: 

• Profile – general awareness of Regimes and CARF amongst stakeholders.
• Risk ownership – support the AEOI stream lead in ensuring that the requirements of the Regimes and CARF are sufficiently clear and complete in the CTI Standards, including reporting specificities and requirements 

Business

• Provide clear and concise as well as timeliness in advice of the Regimes and CARF to support stakeholders 

Processes

• Provide tax technical support as appropriate to the stakeholders, including to the Reporting Team during the annual reporting process, including drafting of related correspondence to the tax authorities. 

People & Talent 

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values 

Risk Management

• Provide oversight of key deliverables against regulatory timelines.
• Manage annual Residual Risk Assessment process engagement with Reporting team, escalating issues as relevant to the Head of CTI.

Governance 

• Monitor and review changes in tax technical landscape including those impacting reporting required under the Regimes and work closely with various parties to agree appropriate reporting positions for implementation.
• Develop appropriate documentation covering all key tax technical positions including that on reporting and their operational impact for FATCA, CRS and QI reporting regimes covering SCB’s global footprint
• Keep abreast of development in CARF and develop appropriate guidance documentation to assist in stakeholders’ implementation covering SCB’s global footprint.

Regulatory & Business Conduct 

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Embed efficient, effective and collaborative communication channels with key stakeholders including CTI team members, group client tax information reporting team, country / regional tax managers, business stakeholders, group and country legal and compliance teams and other central teams. 

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years of experience in the financial services space 
• Subject matter expert on client tax information reporting regimes (e.g. FATCA and CRS), US withholding and reporting including Chapter 3 and 61 of U.S. Internal Revenue Code and QI agreement (“Regimes”)
• Effective communication skills including discussion with stakeholders
• Ability to understand operational aspects of implementation of tax requirements

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Tax technical advisory
• Client Tax Information reporting (FATCA & CRS)
• Manage Residual Risk Assessments

About Standard Chartered

We’re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we’ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you’re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can’t wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you’ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies – everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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