Tax Risk & Control Specialist

We are seeking an experienced Tax Risk & Control Specialist to join ING's Global Financial Crime & Fraud Prevention team. This global role involves safeguarding ING Group by performing risk assessments, coordinating key control monitoring, ensuring adherence to generic frameworks, and managing daily activities related to non-financial risk. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, disciplined execution, and the ability to collaborate effectively in an international environment, maintaining close links with all stakeholders.

Must Have

• Act as 1st Line of Defense towards stakeholders
• Follow appropriate procedures on Risk Management
• Assess and support mitigation of non-financial risk
• Organize and facilitate various types of risk assessments and gap analyses
• Ensure full adherence to generic frameworks
• Actively engage in community maintenance for stakeholder management
• Administer data in the main NFR tool for high quality and accuracy
• Analyze open issues within the given framework
• Track and resolve data quality issues and report them
• 3+ years work experience in financial sector, shared service centres with link to control environment or project management
• University education (Bachelor's or Master's degree)
• English - Advanced (C1)

Good to Have

• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks FATCA/CRS, US Withholding and CESOP
• Experience in Non-financial risk/internal audit/compliance area
• Experience managing different stakeholders on operational, tactical and strategic level

Perks & Benefits

• Flexible working hours and work from home
• Daily working time: 7hrs 45min
• Daily refreshments (coffee, fruits, drinks)
• Fully equipped gym accessible 24/7
• Game room with unlimited access
• Modern designed coffee corner and terrace with grill spot
• Sick leave compensation: up to 80% of monthly salary
• Life insurance contribution: up to 22.14 EUR/per month
• 3rd pillar contribution: up to 3% from monthly salary
• 24/7 external mental health support
• Learning opportunities: internal and external learning programs
• Regular teambuildings, social events and communities
• Extra 3 personal days per year
• Extra vacation days: up to 10 extra days/per year
• Referrals starting from 1000 EUR
• 150€ for childbirth/adoption bonus, wedding day and registered partnership contributions, work anniversary award
• Premises open 24/7, can bring friends/family to gym and game room
• Yearly bonus based on performance and company’s results
• Cafeteria points: 50€/month (600€/year) for Multisport card, Alza, Zalando, Cinema City, etc.
• Green benefit – reimbursement for eco-friendly products or services up to 300 €
• Home office contribution: 20 EUR/per month
• Discounts from stores: up to 30%
• Warm welcome package
• Pet friendly office

About the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

We are searching for an experienced candidate for the position of Tax Risk & Control Specialist. As a gatekeeper to the financial system, we have a responsibility to protect our customers, entities, society and the entire financial system by keeping ING safe, secure and compliant. This is a top priority and is a part of who we are: integrity is at the heart of our Orange Code the ING values and behaviors. Even if you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience and we are committing to help successful candidates in acquiring the missing expertise.

The role is global and you will be functionally reporting to the head office department Client Tax Services in the Global Financial Crime & Fraud Prevention. You will be part of the existing Tax NFR Expertise team. Your main activities are going to be related to risk assessment, coordination of key control monitoring, adherence to generic frameworks and safeguarding ING Group in general by daily activities.

The right candidate needs to have risk awareness and knowledge, analytical skills, be proficient in disciplined execution, able to combine content expertise with project management skills and capable of achieving solid results in an international complex and dynamic environment while collaborating with others. This entails maintaining close links with all stakeholders involved.

Key responsibilities:

Act as 1st Line of Defense towards your stakeholders. Follow the appropriate procedures on Risk Management to assess and support the mitigation of non-financial risk while applying working knowledge of standardized business processes, in order to protect the organization from the risks. This particularly means making impact in the following areas of activities:

• Risk assessment: Being able to organize and facilitate various types of risk assessments and gap analyses.
• Generic frameworks: Making sure your department fully adheres to the generic frameworks.
• Stakeholder management: Active engagement in maintenance of the community.
• Monitoring & Reporting: Administration of the data in the main NFR tool to ensure high quality and accuracy of the data.
• Issue Management: Analysis of open issues within the given framework.
• Data management: Data quality tracking and resolving and issue reporting

Experience and skills:

• Ability to facilitate independent risk assessment, or perform such risk assessment
• Familiarity with the regulatory frameworks FATCA/CRS, US Withholding and CESOP is an advantage
• Understanding risk management principles and practices and various non-financial risks
• Ability to manage different stakeholders on the operational, tactical and strategic level (Experience is advantage)
• Organizational sensitivity with persuasiveness-skills and ability to use indirect influence
• Strong communication skills (English language is a must)
• Ability to build bridges, bring people together (interpersonal awareness), act as a sparring partner to various stakeholders
• Strong work ethic combined with a structured and disciplined approach, resulting in ‘getting things done’
• Work experiences in the Non-financial risk/internal audit/compliance area is highly desirable
• 3+ years work experience in financial sector, shared service centres with link to control environment or project management

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)

University education (Master's degree)

Language skills

English - Advanced (C1)

Number of years of experience

3

Personality requirements and skills