M&A Tax - Senior Role - Leading Tax Advisory Firm

Project Management

• Advising Indian / foreign MNCs on Mergers, Demergers, Business Acquisitions, Transaction Structuring, Share Acquisitions, Structuring of Funds & Investment Models for Inbound & Outbound Acquisitions, Corporate Restructuring and Joint Venture Planning.
• Assisting client through each stage of the business lifecycle, helping in thorough quantitative analysis, rigorous end-to-end implementation and leading-edge and sound structuring techniques to enable them to achieve the desired objectives.
• Ideation and conceptualization on tax structuring options for multinational clients. Evaluation of India inbound structuring options.
• Conducting extensive handholding on regulatory compliances for acquisition. Implementation of follow on merger/consolidation at India level.
• Leading tax due diligence work and advising clients in negotiating the terms of transaction and documents based on the findings of tax due diligence.
• Taking practical approach to identifying and resolving tax issues arising in structuring assignments. Undertaking comprehensive reviews of business operations to identify tax planning opportunities as well as compliance gaps.
• Lead and coordinate the tax planning and tax management of assignments, with guidance from the Partner and manage risk and independence issues on client engagements.
• Planning & strategizing approach for litigation and exploring novel ways to resolve tax disputes of clients. Innovating & enhancing processes to achieve commercial targets effective.
• Researching estimated service cost & man hours required for project prior to pitching. Drafting & presenting proposals to clients with guidance of Partners.
• Building commercial substance in the current process & procedure and constantly innovating and improvising on the processes & plans for closing assignments

Client Management & Business Development

• Proactively communicating, responding and sharing updates & development of assignment on a regular basis with clients.
• Be the central point of contact and liaise with your client stakeholders, Managers, local stakeholders and the team.
• Proactively developing and maintaining relationships with CFOs and Tax Directors, thereby creating a high-quality professional network. Demonstrating professionalism by working within legal and regulatory guidelines while remaining independent and objective at all times.
• Identifying leads from public & private sources and constantly evaluating feasibility of new opportunities. Sharing new potential client database with Partners for review and guidance.
• Supporting partners to prepare pitch proposals for client meetings.

A/C Mining/Revenue

• Identifying new business opportunities in existing clients by keenly keeping track of developments at the client end, tax arena and overall industry trends.
• Building credibility and delivering high quality solutions while building rapport with client and key stakeholders to ensure repeat business.

Knowledge Management

• Understanding the tax compliance landscape and ideate how technology can be used, internally (by tax professionals in the firm) and externally (by industry clients) to make the compliance process more effective - simpler, speedier and qualitatively superior.
• Acquiring industry insights to improvise on current services. Developing content for networking in external events & seminars.
• Sharing knowledge acquired from external forums with team members. Regularly update Knowledge management database with new updates.

Brand Management

• Representing & endorsing Firm's expertise and scope of service at various external forums. Interacting with peers and building a high-quality network in the industry.
• Publishing articles & research papers on regular basis. Sharing knowledge and learning at external forums to increase visibility and credibility.

People Management

• Providing guidance to the team Facts/Issues/Tech inputs/Industry practice/ etc, proactively to enable them to deliver on assignments.
• Identifying and pointing out challenges so that they can be overcome quickly with solutions and supporting them to resolve challenges/ conflicts.
• Connecting with team on regular basis to ensure the assignment is closed within agreed TAT. Tracking team performance & sharing continuous feedback. Assessing individual and team performance on closure of the assignment and sharing feedback and learnings with team.
• Creating a learning environment and encouraging people to leverage each other's strengths and deliver high quality, consistent performance.

Duties:

• 9 to 17 years of experience in M&A Tax and corporate restructuring role.
  • Able to conceptualized & implemented strategies, increased business growth and enhanced internal controls.
  • Passion to work in tax field. Good understanding of tax laws in India, Company law and SEBI Regulations.
  • Good command over MS Excel - can use formulas and comfortable with computations
  • Strong interpersonal skills (ability to liaise at all levels). Ability to communicate and interact with clients
  • An energetic and innovative individual with entrepreneurial attitude and strong business acumen.
  • Financial analysis and modelling skills with excellent knowledge of data analysis and forecasting methods.
  • Stress resilient with ability to handle multiple simultaneous priorities
  • Ability to work cooperatively as well as independently under pressure with close attention to detail.