Associate Director Tax

**Work type**: Permanent Full time
**Location**: NSW- Sydney CBD
- **12-month fixed-term opportunity where you’ll be encouraged to experiment and find out where you excel**:

- **Be part of a highly engaged team committed to diversity and flexibility**:

- **Showcase your profound experience in tax risk management**

**It’s more than a career at NAB. It’s about more opportunity, more moments to make a difference and more focus on you.**

Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth to us, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You’ll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.

We currently have 12-month fixed-term opportunity for an Associate Director to join our Group Finance Tax team. You will support NAB’s business units through the provision of strategic income tax advice and be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of tax services to NAB’s business units and for developing frameworks to facilitate tax risk management.

**Key responsibilities will include**:

- Responsible for assessing the impact of tax law development / legislative change and developing the strategy, tax policy and processes for the organisation to address the changes. This includes dialogue with the business, finance, and other Group Tax Function areas as applicable.
- Ensure the accurate and timely delivery of tax return technical workpapers and the effective implementation of tax advice in the NAB income tax return.
- Actively advocate NAB’s tax policies, frameworks, and risk settings throughout the organisation, ensuring that key stakeholders have sufficient awareness of the policies and risk management processes.
- Ensure tax controls are effective and operated in line with policy requirements.
- Establish and foster strong relationships within the business and key stakeholders.
- Act of behalf of NAB to lobby the Government, ATO and Industry bodies for the development or administration of fair and equitable tax legislation and administration.

**What you will bring**:

- Ability to present complex issues and synthesising messages in various forms to meet requirements including to senior stakeholders to help inform the business of tax risks as well as technical file notes for regulators.
- Enjoys working collaboratively and building strong relationships with a broad range of stakeholders with both the business and the finance community to effectively provide focused and business specific tax advice and manage tax advice implementation.
- Experience in the provision of tax advice for complex financial arrangements and business acquisitions.
- Strong tax technical skills with specialist tax experience working in a chartered accounting firm or corporate role with a financial service and/or international tax law background.
- Experience with engaging industry bodies around tax reform and industry tax issues.
- Aptitude to identify tax risk and escalate as required, drive change whilst maintaining effective controls and governance.
- Strong technical tax skills to interpret and analyse tax legislative requirements and their impacts on NAB Group.
- International and transfer pricing experience will be well regarded.
- Tertiary qualification in relevant field (Law, Financial or Commercial preferred) with Post graduate qualifications preferred.

By joining NAB and our Finance team, you are committing to putting our customers’ needs first every time. You will be ambitious for growth; always curious and learning from colleagues. You will speak honestly, always valuing the time and opinion of others. You will own your work, doing what’s right, even when it’s hard.

**A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone.**

At NAB, we’re intent on building a culture we can all be proud of. One based on trust and respect. An uplifting environment where every single one of us feels appreciated and empowered to be our true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It’s a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be.

**More focus on you**

We’re committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities.

**Join NAB**

If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let the recruitment consultant know.

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