Senior Assistant Vice President – International Tax Operations, Corporate & Investment Banking (EMEA)
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About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a highly motivated International Tax Operations Specialist to join the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Core Services Tax Operations team. In this pivotal role, you will help drive the governance, oversight, and execution of tax-related operational processes across international markets, with responsibility for transaction taxes, withholding taxes, capital gains taxes, tax documentation, and regulatory reporting.
Partnering with stakeholders across Operations, Markets, Tax Advisory, Technology, Product, and Risk, you will play a key role in strengthening the firm's tax operating framework, enhancing controls, and delivering scalable solutions that support a rapidly evolving regulatory environment.
You will identify opportunities to improve efficiency, mitigate operational risk, and ensure compliance with complex global tax obligations. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced tax operations professional to gain broad exposure across businesses, jurisdictions, and products while working on high-impact initiatives that influence the effectiveness and resilience of Wells Fargo's international tax operations.
The successful candidate will bring strong analytical and problem-solving skills, operational risk management expertise, and a deep understanding of tax operations within a global financial services environment
In This Role, You Will
- Execute current tax operating models and identify opportunities for increased efficiency, control enhancement, and regulatory compliance.
- Ensure operational processes remain aligned with evolving tax regulations and business requirements, predominantly across EMEA jurisdictions including German MikaDiv and EU FASTER.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to review and assess international tax obligations, perform analysis, control risks and suggest remediating measures for applicable Wells Fargo entities.
- Recommend and implement improvements to tax-related workflows, procedures, controls and operating practices.
- Ensure accuracy, and timely completeness of tax payments to relevant tax authorities in relation to Financial Transaction Taxes.
- Support strategic projects aimed at enhancing the tax operating model across International.
- Partner with CIB Markets Front Office teams to address tax impacts arising from trading activity and collateral movements.
- Review New Business Initiatives for potential International Tax processing impact and partner with relevant stakeholders for implementation.
- Review tax changes proposed by tax authorities across international markets and ensure effective compliance with the new regulations as applicable.
- Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders to facilitate effective execution of tax operational objectives.
- Assist in managing internal audits of international tax processes whilst maintaining appropriate governance documentation, procedures, and audit-ready evidence.
- Review collateral-related tax flows and analyse withholding tax implications associated with collateral receipt, return, and substitution activities.
- Required Qualifications: Strong experience within Tax Operations, Investment Operations or Custody/Asset Services Operations.
- Knowledge of US IRS tax documentation and reporting requirements, international withholding tax, tax reporting, transaction taxes, and regulatory tax compliance requirements.
- Experience with Tax Documentation, Financial Transaction Taxes, Stamp Taxes, Withholding Taxes and Capital Gains Taxes would be beneficial Experience performing process reviews, control assessments
- operational risk management activities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to identify and mitigate operational risks.
- Proven stakeholder management skills across multiple business functions and geographic regions.
- Experience working within Corporate & Investment Banking, Asset Servicing, Securities Services, or Capital Markets environments is highly desirable.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a complex, regulated environment.
- Posting End Date: 13 Aug 2026 *Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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- includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues
- making sound risk decisions.
- There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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