T&L: Tax Director, Financial Services

Are you ready to unleash your potential?

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Ready to unleash your potential with us? Join the winning team now!

About Deloitte Financial Services Tax Team

Join Deloitte’s Financial Services Tax team - a dynamic, high-performing group of tax advisors, accountants, lawyers, and economists with broad experience from top professional practices and in-house roles both in Singapore and globally. Our team supports clients across the entire financial services sector, including Banking and Capital Markets, Investment Management, Real Estate, Insurance, and emerging areas such as Digital Assets.

We help clients navigate the full tax lifecycle: from advisory and fund structuring to global information reporting, tax compliance, due diligence, and tax disputes. Based in Singapore, our team often leads regional and global engagements, giving you the chance to work on complex, cross-border projects and cutting-edge challenges in financial services.

Why Join Us?

• Lead a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Work with some of the world’s most sophisticated businesses and senior tax leaders.
• Shape your career with exposure to both compliance and advisory work, and the opportunity to influence the practice's direction as it continues to grow.
• Enjoy a transparent, supportive performance management process, ongoing professional development, and mentorship.

Your Impact as Director

• Own existing client relationships and actively cultivate new ones.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire your team, supporting their technical and operational development.
• Oversee and deliver complex tax advisory and compliance projects, ensuring high-quality outcomes and successful client engagements.
• Advise clients on tax research and technical matters and lead workstreams on M&A transactions (including due diligence, structuring, and SPA support).
• Collaborate closely with partners, subject matter experts, and cross-functional teams to deliver outstanding service.
• Monitor and anticipate the latest developments in the financial services sector and help shape new service offerings.
• Represent Deloitte as a trusted tax advisor and thought leader in the market.

Your role as a leader

At Deloitte, we believe in the importance of empowering our people to be leaders at all levels. We connect our purpose and shared values to identify issues as well as to make an impact that matters to our clients, people and the communities. Additionally, Directors across our Firm are expected to:

• Lead from the front, acting as an exemplary role model of integrity for leaders at all levels; promote a strong sense of loyalty and followership as well as to energise others to perform at the highest level.
• Build a high-performance culture by cultivating individual and team strengths; drive outstanding service, quality and stakeholder value, often through a mix of large cross-business and/or cross-border teams.
• Anticipate market and competitor trends to develop and deliver bold and innovative solutions that differentiates Deloitte from others.
• Build and maintain trust-based relationships with senior stakeholders and influencers, using highly developed influencing skills to drive positive impact in complex situations.
• Set and communicate strategic direction, excite people around the vision and align diverse, cross-business as well as cross-border teams to achieve success.
• Manage the development of a strong pipeline of diverse talent for current/ future success; own and drive a talent experience that differentiates Deloitte from others.
• Actively manages the business to deliver maximum value to Deloitte and to external stakeholders.
• Anticipate market and competitor trends to develop and deliver bold and innovative solutions that differentiates Deloitte.

What We’re Looking For / Requirements

• At least 12 years of corporate tax experience, preferably in a Big Four, an international accounting firm, law firm, or financial institution. Experience in both compliance and advisory is preferred.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Law, or another business-related field.
• CPA or CA certification strongly preferred
• SCTP accreditation is an added advantage.
• Deep expertise in one or more financial services subsectors: banking, capital markets, insurance, investment management, real estate, digital assets, or M&A tax.
• Proven leadership and client engagement skills, with the ability to manage multiple large projects and client portfolios simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong business acumen, commercial awareness, and sound judgment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and delegate to junior team members and build high-performing teams.
• Adaptability to change and a proactive approach to business and personal development.

Connect to Your Next Step

A career at Deloitte gives you the freedom and support to shape your own path. You’ll experience a purpose you can believe in, make an impact you can see, and be part of a team where you’ll never stop growing.

Ready to lead the future of Financial Services Tax? Apply now.

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