Senior Tax Manager - Compliance

Role purpose 

• Establish governance and controls over corporate tax reporting and compliance.
• Define and maintain SLAs with areas providing data or documentation for tax filings and reporting.
• Lead initiatives to improve and automate the compliance process.

 Responsible to:

• Prepare and submit Corporate Tax Reports under IFRS, including current and deferred tax, taxes paid and collected, effective tax rate (ETR), and the Annual Tax Pack for all HSBC legal entities (individual and consolidated).
• Provide detailed explanations and rationales for movements in current and deferred tax balances (balance sheet commentary) to Financial Accounting for external reporting.
• Determine ETR, Deferred Income Tax for Local/IFRS purposes and report IFRS through the Group system (Saracen).
• Prepare forecast on Current and Deferred Tax for the Capital Plan, Stress Testing and internal projections.
• Address requests from external auditors related to tax matters.
• Drive process optimization and working paper improvements, ensuring efficiency, consistency, and alignment with automation and system upgrades.
• Participate in special projects (e.g., mergers, restructures, recovery of favorable tax balances).
• Monitor and manage tax risks.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration (required). Intermediate/Advance English proficiency (mainly conversation skills).
• 5+ years of experience on addresing Corporate Tax reporting, determining Deferred Tax and tax compliance obligations, accounting records, specially on international services companies, preferably in financial institutions or Big Four firms. Desirable Financial Sector.
• Attention to detail and commitment to high-quality work.
• Leadership and agile mindset. Oriented to goals/results. Resilience, adapt easily to changes.
• Strong Excel skills and basic data analysis tools (e.g., pivot tables, formulas).
• Familiarity with tax reporting and deferred taxes and effective tax rate.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities. Administration skills.
• Proactive, organize.