Custody Tax Product Manager (Senior Vice President)

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Job Title: Custody Tax Product Manager (Senior Vice President) Business: Securities Services Division: Custody Officer Title: Senior Vice President C-Grade: C14 Location: Frankfurt Legal Entity: CEP Posting until 24th of April 2026 Job Purpose/Overview: Tax Product is one of the key products within Custody Services, a leading provider of global custody and local custody services to cross border institutional investors and intermediaries. Tax Product is responsible for defining and executing on a product roadmap for tax services delivered to cross border institutional investors. The product roadmap includes defining tax reclaim, reduction at source and CGT services; managing cost of production across global hub and country locations; defining and executing on a global technology strategy; tracking and responding to regulatory changes; and implementing and executing on a risk and control framework. The Tax Product Manager has a tax risk, commercial and client remit. In this regard the Product Manager is expected to understand the relevant tax law so that Citi can be compliant with its obligations as well as provide our clients with best-in-class services. This will require contribution towards the development of short and long-term objectives for Citi’s tax product offerings, technology and operations strategies, and to drive change in partnership with global, regional and country stakeholders. To be successful, the Tax Product Manager must have a strong understanding of both cross border institutional clients and global market tax practices and regulations. This Role is a “Controlled Function” Role as defined by the Central Bank of Ireland Reform Act 2010 and Principal Regulations 2011, and amending Regulations 2014, 2015. Key Responsibilities: Product Monitoring tax changes (with focus on Germany, Austria and Switzerland) for impact on clients or services and, when necessary, implementing strategic solutions Defining tax servicing and client delivery standards for global and local custody services in partnership with Regions, Operations, Corporate Tax and other stakeholders Executing on the tax strategy in partnership with Technology and Operations Following market, industry and client trends to further develop Citi’s products and solutions platforms Managing client and competitor market research and developing the product innovation roadmap Providing an enhanced client services function within Tax Product and supporting key clients on tax related issues Developing a market advocacy program for tax services that demonstrates industry and local market leadership Participating in industry initiatives relating to tax services and the application of new technologies Risk & Control Act as a tax technical expert with regards to German tax law interpretation; liaise with tax advisors if required Actively seek to identify and remediate existing and potential tax risks Prepare responses to tax authorities' inquiries Technology Lead on execution on tax platform modernisation, including: Immediate focus on German tax law changes - MikaDiv system developments Focus on tax systems solutioning for strategic Custody projects Contribute to tax solutioning for tax authorities data demand within tax systems (with focus on Germany, Austria, Switzerland) – transaction analysis, transactions monitoring, approach to EU FASTER data gathering and reporting requirements. Partnering with global shared services utilities that provide centralized tax related services such as FATCA processing Support on defining, prioritizing, and managing an annually defined technology book of work with Regions, Operations and Technology The ideal candidate should have a proven success record in financial services tax. The candidate should be able to demonstrate a track record of project managing a complex product set with a hands-on leadership style. Experience, skills and capabilities: Relevant experience in tax/custody in financial organisation / consulting company Expertise in German tax regulations applicable to taxation of securities Both German and English language fluency Understanding of global tax regulations relevant to a custodian Understanding of tax related operational processes such as reduction at source and tax reclaim processing Ability to work unsupervised and adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate Ability to team, build networks and relationships internally and externally Attention to detail and process/analytic mindset Comfortable with performing data investigations that require a high degree of accuracy with tight timescales Ability to create business analysis, troubleshoot data quality issues, and conduct exploratory and descriptive analysis of business datasets Ability to structure and break down problems, develop solutions, and to drive to results Familiarity with product development methodologies Project Management skills with experience leading large cross functional initiatives Intellectual curiosity, analytical and conceptual thinker Proactively seeks and develops new opportunities ------------------------------------------------------ Job Family Group: Product Management and Development ------------------------------------------------------ Job Family: Product Management ------------------------------------------------------ Time Type: Full time ------------------------------------------------------ Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: €0.00 - €1,861,981.00 ------------------------------------------------------ Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above. ------------------------------------------------------ Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter. ------------------------------------------------------ Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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