Senior Tax Consultant

Role Title: FATCA and CRS Onboarding Expert

Background:

The Customer Tax Transparency (CTT) program is a group wide program of work responsible for delivering business capability to enable ANZ to comply with its tax compliance reporting obligations under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) and other similar regimes.

Role Summary:

As part of this role Business Analyst (Specialist Support) works to support International branch network and Relationship Managers on customer onboarding queries related to FATCA and CRS compliance and the relevant forms (FATCA CRS) required for Institutional customers Onboarding.

This includes strong stakeholder management experience to manage requests from in country representatives, which are predominantly non-standard and identified as urgent.

The role requires the interpretation and research of complex obligations (FATCA & CRS) and their compliance to support business requests

Strong verbal and written communication skills are required to manage business in country requests and to explain the request and research inputs to Senior management. Strong Word and Excel experience is highly desired.

Conducting reviews of business process and business outputs to ensure correct customer information is collected and providing inputs into improved processes or recurring issues.

Experience in FATCA, CRS, Anti-Money Laundering/Know your Customer (AML/KYC) or Compliance related projects will be highly regarded.

Knowledge & Experience

5+ years experience as a Business Analyst with either a compliance or legal background, research experience highly regarded.

Minimum of 2 years of Experience within FATCA CRS compliance in Banking Sector.

Must have experience and understanding of IRS W8 forms and US Source Income for FATCA.

Good experience in Customer Onboarding and KYC requirements for Institutional customers.

Experience in FATCA/CRS obligations within Banking and Finance domain.

Work autonomously on queries, researching and analysing CRS and FATCA legislation.

Interpret complex scenarios utilising excellent decision making for response/recommendations considering a risk/compliance lens and within ANZ guidelines.

Demonstrate attention to detail using clear plain language to make recommendations.