As a Vice President Project Manager in Client Tax Operations team, you will lead regulatory and strategic programs end to endturning complex tax requirements into actionable roadmaps, modernizing processes and controls, and delivering audit-ready results. You will drive cross-functional execution, governance discipline, data quality, and on-time delivery across withholding, documentation, and reporting activities.

Job responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of tax operations initiatives, including scope, roadmap, budget, and governance to achieve on-time and within-budget outcomes
• Build and maintain a dependency-driven project plan with milestones, resourcing, and delivery metrics; keep plans current and execution transparent
• Facilitate working group meetings by setting agendas, driving decisions, documenting actions and owners with due dates, and escalating issues through governance when needed
• Design and implement target operating models and re-engineered processes, embedding controls, service level agreements, and key performance indicators to support accurate withholding, documentation, and reporting
• Manage risks, issues, and dependencies; enforce change control; maintain audit evidence and readiness for internal controls over financial reporting and other applicable control requirements
• Drive stakeholder communications and change management by preparing governance updates and ensuring standard operating procedures are developed and adopted

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years of project management experience within financial services, with a focus on tax operations
• Working knowledge of U.S. tax withholding and reporting requirements (e.g., Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), Nonresident Alien (NRA), backup withholding, Forms 1099 and 1042S)
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives from initiation through closure
• Understanding of tax operations controls, regulatory requirements, and operational best practices
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) or other advanced degree
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for AI and automation integration within operational workflows, including experience evaluating, implementing, or governing AI-driven solutions to achieve scalable process improvements and strategic objectives

 

Lead tax operations programs end to end, modernize controls, and deliver audit-ready regulatory outcomes.