The Senior Tax Accountant will report directly to the Tax Operations Manager and is responsible for assisting with client deliverables, transitions and project deliverables impacting the Tax Services team. They will be primarily involved in the preparation of unit trust distributions, detailed taxable income calculations, BAS returns and other tax reporting as well as being involved in the testing of processes and templates, update of standard operating procedures, client transitions and projects.
Primary Role Responsibilities
The Tax Operations Team is responsible for managing the overall delivery of tax services to all our Asset and Fund Services clients and ensuring that the tax reporting infrastructure is compliant with Tax legislation.
This includes the following-
- Managing the client relationship from a tax reporting perspective.
- Maintenance of tax reporting infrastructure and templates.
- Preparation and review of tax calculations and reports
- Tax process control and risk management.
They have extensive interaction and dealings with various managers and teams within the Operations Division including Fund Administration, Custody Operations, Risk and Relationship Management.
All services delivered by this team are required to consider current legislative and regulatory requirements and they must comply with operational risk guidelines. Also, they are responsible for the investigation, management and resolution of any client queries and issues which are directed to the team. Finally, the team supports the ongoing fulfilment of service delivery to Clients through representation alongside the Relationship Management function.
Key responsibilities include:
- Accurate and timely delivery of tax reporting deliverables.
- Preparation of distribution calculations, superannuation fund tax calculations and tax returns.
- Preparation of client reporting templates for review.
- Train/mentor tax accountant on unit trust distribution calculations, superannuation fund tax calculations and tax returns
- Review and maintenance of client tax profiles and security static data used to drive reporting and tax calculations
- Attending to and responding to client queries.
- Adherence to operational compliance and risk policies.
- Assist in the completion of projects, including testing of tax templates.
- Actively participate and contribute to meeting other team deliverables.
What is required for you to succeed?
Knowledge of tax accounting principles for financial instruments, trusts, and/or superannuation funds.
- Knowledge of fund accounting, reporting and related operational risk and compliance requirements of the client service function
- Knowledge of tax accounting principles for financial instruments, trusts, and/or superannuation funds
- Degree qualified in Business, Accounting, or related discipline.
- Qualified Accountant (CA/CPA)
- Experience using central accounting systems and producing reconciliations.
- Demonstrated history of being results focused and excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
About BNP PARIBAS
BNP Paribas is a top-tier European and international banking establishment, with an uninterrupted presence in the APAC region since 1860 and in Australia since 1881. Combining global expertise and local know-how, BNP Paribas in Australia and New Zealand delivers solutions to our clients through Corporate and Institutional Banking and Asset Management - a bridge between corporate and institutional clients.
We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
• BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community.
• BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization.
• Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
• BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds.
BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to us at bnpp.hrss.recruitment.admin [at] asia.bnpparibas (dot) com or +61 2 9216 8633 (and ask for the Talent Acquisition Manager in the HR Team).
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