CA required I Indirect Tax I Customs - Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Your job responsibilities will include,

-Leading client fronting indirect tax (GST/ Customs/ FTP/SVB) engagements (Compliance, Representation, Advisory and Litigation)
-Scoping
-Technical and quality reviews
-On-time delivery
-Client liaison
-Expected to be involved in end-to-end reporting for his/ her client/ region sales, budgets, billing and their growth
Involved in preparation of monthly/ quarterly sheets for leadership from overall practice perspective.
-Keeping track of and providing insights on various issues related to recent developments in Indirect taxes in India and globally
-Can plan and execute various practice development initiatives (incl. standardizing operating practices, and protocols for recurring activities)
Clients account expansion and business development: 20-25% weightage

Aligning with Partners/ sales team to generate leads and take it till order book level.

Representing indirect tax team at practice level, wherever required, and identifying solutions to be provided to the common leads identified
Managing and maintaining relationship with clients
Advise and assist clients in forming indirect tax strategies to cover indirect tax exposure
Strive to provide new and innovative indirect tax solutions to clients
Identifying new opportunities for serving existing clients
Targeting and obtaining work from potential clients
Achieving assigned number KPIs pertaining to:
Lead generation
Sales closure combining IDT technical knowledge and commercial skills
Client mining and account expansion
Product campaigns in relation to IDT products including tax technology products
Reporting and maintaining the MIS from practice and sales perspective and updating the leadership on the progress achieved.
Leading people and development: 5-10% weightage

Building and managing a team including recruitment, appraisals, developing training material, providing training to team members, and technically guiding the teams in completing their assigned deliverables
Review of efficient and effective planning, selection and team management of all resources throughout the year including temporary resource redeployment within team/ with other departments,
Building of team morale and motivate people in the team and firm, and retention of existing employees
Address issues at emotional / infrastructural level at work being faced by teams, take responsibility for team building and motivation of teams
Identifying training needs of teams and assist in skill building where deficiencies identified,
ESIRED CANDIDATE PROFILE:

Chartered Accountant / Lawyer with 6+ years experience in indirect tax (Customs & GST)
Specialist knowledge of Goods and Services Tax, erstwhile indirect tax laws
Experience of Customs legislation and Foreign Trade Policy
Basic work experience in Foreign Trade Agreements
Experience should be in compliance, representation, advisory and adequate litigation exposure
Experience in advisory and compliance with respect to Special Economic Zones (SEZ)
Experience in independently handling GST implementation projects for clients from planning phase to execution and delivery
Experience in liaising with government officials and building rapport with officials
Excellent written and spoken communication skills including legal / technical drafting