Tax Reporting Specialist

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BTG Pactual, Latin America's leading investment bank, is seeking aU.S. Tax Operations & Compliance Associate Director to join our New York team, supportingBTG Pactual, N.A.and affiliated U.S. entities. This is a unique opportunity to own the operational tax framework — client tax documentation, withholding configuration and information reporting — of a global financial institution serving both U.S. (W-9) and non-U.S. (W-8) clients.

In this role, you will be responsible for the bank's tax reporting and withholding lifecycle: validating client tax documentation, defining and configuring product-level withholding parameters in the bank's systems, reviewing the preparation and filing of Forms 1099 and 1042/1042-S, and ensuring FATCA and CRS reporting obligations are met. You will also support U.S. federal, state and local tax compliance, including partnership compliance, and partner closely with Operations, Onboarding/KYC, Finance, Legal, Technology and the business units.

• Define the withholding rules applicable to each product and each client segment — interest (including portfolio interest and bank deposit interest), dividends and dividend equivalents (§871(m)), substitute payments on securities lending, PTP/partnership distributions (§1441/§1442, §1446(a) and §1446(f)), gross proceeds, FIRPTA (§1445), original issue discount, and payments to intermediaries and disregarded entities.
• Support the IT team on the configuration and maintenance of withholding parameters in the bank's core, custody and payments platforms: income codes, exemption codes, statutory vs. treaty rates, 30% NRA withholding,backup withholding at 24% (§3406), presumption rules where documentation is missing or invalid, and cascading/multi-layer withholding logic.
• Own thechange-control process for withholding logic: business requirements, test cases, UAT sign-off, regression testing after tax law or rate changes, and documented rationale for every parameter.
• Reconcile amounts withheld to amounts deposited (Form 1042 / Form 945 / EFTPS) and manage under- and over-withholding remediation, including reimbursement and set-off procedures.
• Review and validate
  
  Forms W-9 and the W-8 series(W-8
  
  BEN, W-8
  
  BEN-E, W-8
  
  IMY, W-8
  
  ECI, W-8
  
  EXP), including withholding statements and allocation schedules for intermediaries and flow-through entities.
• Determine Chapter 4 status(Reporting FI, Deemed-Compliant FI, Active vs. Passive NFFE) and apply look-through to controlling persons of passive entities.
• PerformU.S. indiciasearches and CRS residency determinations, manage curing of indicia, GIIN/TIN validation, and documentation validity/expiration and change-in-circumstances monitoring.
• Assess treaty claimsand limitation-on-benefits eligibility, and apply reduced treaty rates on a product-by-product basis.
• Review the preparation and filing of Forms
  -INT,
  -DIV,
  -B,
  -MISC,
  -NEC,
  -OID,
  -R as applicable), 1042 and
  1042-S, Forms 8966 (FATCA), CRS returns, Form 945, and applicable state reporting.
• Manage the annual reporting calendar, recipient statement…