Indirect Taxation - Manager - Mumbai - Leading Tax Firm

Roles and Responsibilities:

Fully qualified CAs with 6 TO 8 years of experience in IDT only may apply.

Combining technical skills and practical experience across industries and geographies to provide tailored advice to clients. This will include identifying risk areas and sustainable planning opportunities throughout the tax life cycle. Role would entail wide exposure and visibility to wide ranging ERP platforms/ tax engines and high degree of familiarization with indirect tax laws and tax automation.

Project Management

• Advice on classification, valuation, applicability of taxes on transactions and admissibility to tax benefits/exemptions.
• Providing innovative but rigorous tax planning ideas (Indirect Tax Reviews / Health Checks /Due Diligence Reviews).
• Undertaking comprehensive reviews of business operations to identify tax planning opportunities as well as compliance gaps.
• 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
• Making Provision for complete support for customs proceedings & Litigation. Drafting replies to notices and Drafting appeals and submissions.
• Appearances and arguments before adjudication and appellate authorities up to the Tribunal. Appearance and arguments before anti-dumping authorities.
• Ideate supply chain solutions to optimize GST /Customs duty cost by standardizing procurement and distribution cycle of various business models.

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 IDT compliance landscape and ideate how technology can be used, internally (by IDT professionals in the firm) and also 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.
  

Essential Skills, Experience & Attributes:

• 6 to 8 years of experience in Indirect tax practice.
• Immediate or quick joiners preferred.
• Passion to work in indirect tax field. Good understanding of indirect tax laws including GST
• 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.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with the ability to successfully adapt to changing priorities.