Custody Tax Product Manager

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your skills in the Tax Product Manager for Custody Services position.

Shape your career with Citi in Dublin. By joining Citi, you will become part of a global organization whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Citi has had a presence in Ireland since 1965, it was one of the first foreign banks to open an office in the country and is the Citibank Europe Plc Headquarters.

Tax Product

Tax Product is a key product horizontal within Custody Services, a leading provider of global custody and local custody services to cross border institutional investors and intermediaries.

Tax Product is responsible for defining and executing on a product roadmap for tax services delivered to cross border institutional investors. The product roadmap includes defining tax reclaim, reduction at source and CGT services; managing cost of production across global hub and country locations; defining and executing on a global technology strategy; tracking and responding to regulatory changes; and implementing and executing on a risk and control framework.

Key Responsibilities of the Tax Product Manager

The Tax Product Manager is expected to contribute towards the development of short and long-term objectives for Citi’s tax product offerings, technology and operations strategies, and to drive change in partnership with global and regional stakeholders. The Product Manager is responsible for driving consistency in execution of the product strategy across countries and operational hubs. To be successful, the Tax Product Manager must have a strong understanding of both cross border institutional clients and global market tax practices and regulations.

This Role is a “Controlled Function” Role as defined by the Central Bank of Ireland Reform Act 2010 and Principal Regulations 2011, and amending Regulations 2014, 2015.

The Tax Product Manager responsibilities include the following:

Technology

Support execution of tax platform modernisation, including:

• Focus on tax systems solutioning for strategic Custody projects
• Lead on data workstream – to take a role of a data governance lead for tax
• Drive tax solutioning for tax authorities data demand within tax systems – transaction analysis, transactions monitoring, approach to EU FASTER data gathering and reporting requirements, including analysis of potential vendors and partners
• Provide oversight and direction to local tax applications

Product

• Following market, industry and client trends to own field and adapts them for application Citi’s products and solutions platforms
• Managing client and competitor market research and developing product innovation roadmap
• Providing an enhanced client services function within Tax Product and supporting key clients on tax related issues  
• Defining strategies for data governance and data services in partnerships with the Securities Services Data Program
• Participating in industry initiatives relating to tax services and the application of new technologies

Risk & Control

• Execution of due diligence program across central processing hubs and branch locations
• Implementation of appropriate MIS, monitoring capabilities, and control tests

The ideal candidate should have a proven success record in financial services, custody services or tax consulting. The candidate should be able to demonstrate a track record of project managing a complex product set with a hands-on leadership style.

Qualifications 

• Minimum 6+ years financial industry experience with an emphasis on tax services and custody
• Understanding of global tax regulations and tax related operational processes such as reduction at source and tax reclaim processing
• Attention to detail and process/analytic mindset
• Comfortable with performing data investigations that require a high degree of accuracy with tight timescales
• Ability to create business analysis, troubleshoot data quality issues, and conduct exploratory and descriptive analysis of business datasets
• Ability to structure and break down problems, develop solutions, and to drive to results
• Experience in end-to-end project delivery, preferably in product development, and knowledge of various analytical tools including Qlikview, Tableau, Access
• Ability to collaborate and clearly communicate with team members of an organization
• Intellectual curiosity, analytical and conceptual thinker

What we can offer you:

By joining Citi Dublin, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed) and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits that support you (and your family) to be well, live well and save well.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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Job Family Group:

Product Management and Development

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Job Family:

Product Management

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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