Tax Processing

Goldman Sachs; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs in Zurich is seeking a Tax Operations Analyst to support tax reporting obligations, regulatory programs, and control governance. You will work with global teams to implement FATCA/CRS enhancements and drive automation using BI platforms and AI tools.

You will collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Tax, Legal, Compliance, and Business Stakeholders to strengthen internal controls and ensure alignment with global tax authorities while contributing to Change the Bank initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required with 1–3 years in financial services, operations, or accounting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a risk-and-control mindset.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and common office tools.
• Understanding of financial-services operations, data lifecycles, and tax rules.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to collaborate across stakeholders.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Resilient and adaptable in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
• Ability to learn regulatory tax requirements and apply them operationally.

Responsibilities

• U.S. information reporting, FATCA/CRS compliance, and tax data reconciliation.
• Collaborate with global teams to optimize tax workflows and automate processes.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Excel proficiency

Communication skills

Time management

Collaboration

Resilience

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

TAX OPERATIONS

The Global Tax team’s mission is to support the firm’s compliance with the tax laws and associated reporting obligations of the countries and local jurisdictions in which the firm conducts business. Global Tax analyzes and supports the activities, operations, reporting obligations and transactions of the firm’s business lines so that tax consequences and reputational risks are evaluated appropriately.

OPERATIONS

Operations is a dynamic, multi-faceted function that partners with all areas of the firm to deliver banking, sales and trading, and asset management capabilities to clients around the world. Alongside this service-delivery role, Operations provides essential risk management and control, preserving and enhancing the firm’s assets and reputation. Operations develops the processes and controls and helps specify the systems that deliver accuracy, timeliness and integrity across the business.

YOUR IMPACT

We are seeking an Analyst to join the Tax Operations team to support the firm’s tax reporting obligations, digital transformation, and control governance. In this role, you will develop a deep understanding of core tax systems and processes, applying quantitative rigor and an inquisitive mindset to identify control gaps, remediate processing breaks, and drive sustainable operational improvements. The candidate will be part of the "Change the Bank" initiatives by leveraging BI platforms and AI tools to automate workflows and enhance reporting efficiency. You will collaborate with global teams on critical regulatory tax reform implementations such as FATCA and CRS - while continuously monitoring the regulatory landscape and acting as a regional operational point of contact. Throughout these initiatives, you will partner closely with Operations, Engineering, Tax, Legal, Compliance, Controllers, and Business Stakeholders to strengthen the internal control environment, retain critical specialist knowledge, and ensure strict compliance with global tax authorities.

OUR IMPACT

Tax Operations supports the activities, operations, reporting obligations and transactions of the firm’s business lines so that tax consequences and reputational risks are evaluated appropriately. The team manages end-to-end information reporting and withholding governance as well as U.S. and CRS documentation validation, reporting, and Swiss withholding tax reconciliations - while fielding cross-border client tax inquiries. Furthermore, the team evaluates regulatory and business changes to design robust internal controls, partnering closely with Engineering to automate workflows and scale strategic platforms.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• U.S. Information Reporting & QI Compliance: End-to-end reconciliation, withholding tax accounting, and electronic submission of IRS Forms 1042, 1042-S, 1099, and Schedule K-1 packages, ensuring strict Qualified Intermediary (QI) compliance and ledger-to-deposit alignment.
• Global CRS & U.S. Documentation: Multi-jurisdictional FATCA and CRS reporting programs - overseeing account scoping, XML schema validation, and regulatory filings - while leading annual W-8/W-9/CRS solicitation campaigns to remediate documentation defects, including CRS and U.S. Tax Form validation.

Risk Governance & Strategic Transformation: Served as the regional tax operations SME and risk controller, driving control remediation, leading regulatory change initiatives (FATCA/CRS), and optimizing operational tax workflows across global teams.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree required, along with 1–3 years of relevant industry experience in financial services, operations, or accounting.
• Analytical & Control Mindset: Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities, supported by a strong risk-and-control mentality and meticulous attention to detail.
• Technical Proficiency: Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and standard office productivity suites.
• Understanding of financial-services operations, transaction lifecycles and upstream data or booking dependencies; ability to learn relevant tax rules and apply them operationally.
• Communication & Relationship Management: Aptitude for building collaborative relationships and communicating complex technical and operational topics clearly across diverse internal stakeholders.
• Workload & Priority Management: Self-motivated, proactive team player with a strong sense of ownership and accountability; demonstrated capability to organize and manage multiple competing, time-sensitive deliverables.
• Resilience & Collaboration: Flexible, adaptable, and able to perform under pressure within a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex tax, data and control matters clearly.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We are committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual has opportunities to grow professionally and personally, including through training and development, firmwide networks, benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings, and mindfulness programmes. Learn more about our culture, benefits and people at GS.com/careers.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Further information is available through the Goldman Sachs careers website.

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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