Project Manager / Business Analyst – Finance & IRAS Tax

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager / Business Analyst with strong Finance domain knowledge and hands-on understanding of Singapore income tax and IRAS requirements. The successful candidate will bridge business, finance, tax, and technology teams to deliver projects involving tax processes, financial systems, regulatory compliance, reporting, and business transformation.

The role requires a combination of project management, business analysis, financial process knowledge, and Singapore tax expertise, with the ability to translate business and regulatory requirements into clear functional specifications and technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management

• Lead end-to-end projects involving finance, taxation, regulatory reporting, and financial systems.
• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, milestones, and dependencies.
• Coordinate with Finance, Tax, IT, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and external stakeholders.
• Manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and change requests.
• Facilitate project governance meetings and provide regular status reporting to management.
• Ensure projects are delivered within agreed scope, timeline, budget, and quality standards.
• Support UAT, implementation, production rollout, and post-implementation activities.

Business Analysis

• Gather, analyse, document, and validate business requirements from Finance and Tax stakeholders.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS), user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
• Analyse existing finance and tax processes and identify opportunities for automation and improvement.
• Perform gap analysis between current processes, system capabilities, and future-state requirements.
• Work closely with developers, solution architects, testers, and business users to ensure requirements are correctly implemented.
• Define test scenarios and support SIT/UAT activities.
• Investigate production issues and coordinate resolution with relevant stakeholders.

Finance & Singapore Income Tax Responsibilities

• Apply knowledge of Singapore corporate income tax and IRAS requirements when analysing business and system requirements.
• Understand the impact of Singapore income tax rules on finance processes, accounting data, tax computations, and reporting.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the key liaison between business users, Finance/Tax SMEs, IT teams, vendors, and management.
• Facilitate workshops to understand business processes and regulatory requirements.
• Communicate complex finance and tax requirements clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and resolve conflicting requirements.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• 2+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Project Management, Finance Transformation, Tax Technology, or related roles.
• Strong understanding of Singapore Finance and Corporate Income Tax processes.
• Practical knowledge of IRAS requirements and Singapore income tax regulations.
• Experience working on finance, tax, ERP, regulatory reporting, or financial transformation projects.
• Strong requirements gathering, process mapping, gap analysis, and documentation skills.
• Strong project planning and stakeholder management capabilities.