Tax Service Business Manager - Zurich, Schweiz - BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Zurich, Schweiz

vor 3 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Schneider

beBee Recruiter

Beschreibung

TAX SERVICE BUSINESS MANAGER (

JOB NUMBER:

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YOUR MISSION:

The Tax Service Business Manager is responsible for assisting tax operational and product teams in monitoring, assessing and implementing tax changes affecting the services offered across the markets he/she is responsible for.

The Tax Service Business Manager has a key role to play:

Assessing & securing the risks linked to the tax business services, with the help of relevant functions.
Help developing an offer that will generate substantial revenues and be recognized on the market by clients & competitors
Do this for all BNP Paribas Securities Services products as applicable for the location excluding MFS.

He/she will coordinate with internal (when available) and external tax experts (when required) and principally interact with operational, product, legal and compliance teams within Securities Services, as well as Group Tax department.

Working within Securities Services business lines and in coordination with the Global Head of Tax Business Services, he/she is in charge of identifying any sensitive topic that might require Group Tax Department validation and in charge of determining whether a product requires a NAC procedure and whether GTD attendance is required in the NAC procedure.

DAILY WORK:

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Monitor tax changes for the Swiss markets using internal (own expertise, Group Tax Department, etc.) and external information providers. Assess the first level of impacts on our services. Liaise with Group Tax Department, Global Head of Tax Business Services, product and operations, depending on the impacts and ask for a NAC when necessary.

This includes but it's not limited to:
- monitoring changes of tax legislation impacting taxation of securities (e.g. withholding tax on income from securities, securities transaction tax, capital gains tax) and related tax relief and tax reclaim procedures,
- inform tax operational team, product team and clients (via Market Updates as applicable) of relevant tax changes,
- assisting tax operational and product teams in the understanding of any change of tax regulation (e.g. how it affects our tax treatments and tax liabilities),
- assist product teams in the assessment of the impacts of such tax changes on our tax product offer including but not limited to validating the changes required to the tax documentation in place with clients and the client communication (via Client Update as applicable),
- coordinate internal meetings on tax market change in order to identify any need for discussion/action at market place level and lobbying actions;

From a Swiss tax perspective, take ownership of tax questionnaire to collect tax information when on boarding new clients.

This includes, in coordination with Group Tax Department and Global Head of Tax Business Services as applicable:

- ensuring the questionnaire is kept up to date following changes in our tax services;
- being the point of escalation in case there is any issue/doubt with the way the questionnaire has been completed by a client.

From a Swiss tax perspective take ownership of the tax matrix used in our systems and ensure it is reviewed on a regular basis Expanding on this, it interalia includes:
Preparing market change template for Operations to update the matrix in response to market changes in Switzerland
Responding to global and other location requests on tax rates for Switzerland as a source investment country
If applicable, responding to requests from other locations for information on Swiss resident entities
With support from other source investment country locations, reviewing matrices for Swiss booked entities to help mitigate local client risk
Provide Swiss tax technical/tax risk view to support any internal or external assessment of our tax procedures, Confirm that the defined tax services are in accordance with our tax obligations (especially where we are a withholding tax agent) and, Group Tax Department guidelines
Appoint external advisors to provide specific tax advice for Switzerland whenever internal tax resources are not available, in compliance with the tax procedure for recourse to external tax advisors.
In close coordination with the Group Tax Department and the Global Head of Tax Business Services, participate in international and local industry associations to represent our business for Switzerland:
debating tax matters to provide thoughtful stewardship with the aim of influencing workable market change outcomes,

- representing and protecting our and our clients' interests,
- influencing efficient and effective changes tax legislation and associated administrative procedures;

Be the point of escalation for complex tax matters and client requests and escalate to local Group Tax Department and/or the Global Head of Tax Business Services when necessary for Switzerland

- assisting tax account managers in answering complex clients questions related