Vice President, Product Management I

Vice President, Product Management I - Tax Research

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We re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Global Tax Technical Research, to join our Asset Servicing team. This role can be located in Pune and is a Hybrid schedule (3 days per week in-office required).

Role

The Global Tax Product Management team focuses on tax strategy, development and enhancement of tax services, tax risk management, market presence, client facing tax support and leveraging tax expertise across BNY globally. The key component for this role is custody tax knowledge with a strong background in tax research. This position will report to the Head of the Tax Research Group. The candidate will take a lead role in the tax research strategy and tax monitoring of markets in the global custody network. The candidate will work closely with our Custody Tax Product Team and other tax experts in the organization, including Corporate Tax and Tax Operations.

In this role, you ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Monitors and analyses tax laws, rates, and compliance obligations resulting from global withholding tax, securities taxation or procedural change in markets, ensuring that these are incorporated in the custody framework timely.
• Provide tax technical support to Asset Servicing and clients, focusing on global initiatives aimed at tackling tax evasion and tax avoidance (e.g. Common Reporting Standard (CRS) and DAC6).
• Review and analysis of tax services to ensure BNY complies with relevant local tax requirements.
• Informs BNY s operational delivery teams of any withholding tax changes and works with the business to implement processes arising from tax change. Coordination with Corporate Tax as and when appropriate.
• Ensure market change is communicated in a concise, factual manner both internally/externally (drafting of client communications, memos).
• Preparation of analysis to support discussions/meetings with tax authorities/governments as necessary to advocate workable solutions to tax relief models.
• Research, preparation of analysis and communication of key regulatory initiatives impacting investment services.
• Deliver training where necessary.
• Close collaboration/communication with BNY s sub-custodian network and Network Management teams.
• Participate in relevant tax industry working groups meetings as necessary.

To be successful in this role, we re seeking the following:

• Extensive tax experience in investment services (domestic and foreign withholding taxes, systems of global exchange of tax related information (FATCA, CRS, DAC6), financial transaction taxes, taxation of investment funds) obtained through experience gained at a custody bank, financial service provider, investment fund company or professional services firm.
• Possess a high-level understanding of the APAC and EMEA tax markets and their impact on non-resident funds (for example, investment, sovereign and pension funds).
• Custody Tax:
  • Withholding Tax practices on securities (domestic and foreign withholding taxes, tax treaties, financial transaction/securities taxation, taxation of investment funds).
  • European Court of Justice tax cases impacting securities (e.g., Fokus Bank case).
  • Capital Gains tax treatment of securities.
• Team player able to work across multiple lines of business with excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Proven ability to use electronic tax research engines.
• Ability to self-manage, prioritize and execute.
• Other languages capabilities are preferable but not critical.

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here s a few of our awards:

• America s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion , Disability: IN - 100% score, 2023-2024
• Most Just Companies , Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here s a few of our awards:

• America s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion , Disability: IN - 100% score, 2023-2024
• Most Just Companies , Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023

Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.