Director - indirect Tax

Tax | Indirect Tax |Director

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Your work profile

As a Director in our Indirect Tax team you’ll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations.

Your role is in relation to exploring touchpoints between Indirect taxes (more particularly GST law) and technology working as a part of and in collaboration with the IDT team in the firm. This would entail wide exposure and visibility to wide ranging ERP platforms/ tax engines and fair degree of familiarization with indirect tax laws and in respect of tax automation.

More specifically, –

Ability to understand 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

Appreciate the evolution of GST and Customs law in India, and be able to vision how technology can be used for simplifying indirect tax touchpoints as a part of business process in trade and industry –for trading, manufacturing and service businesses

Conceptualize possible IT products for indirect tax practitioner – for example, ITC matching, ITC leakage, Expense-ITC bifurcation, inputs/input services/ capital goods ITC bifurcation, Refunds management, Foreign Trade Policy schemes management ( Serve from India Incentive Scheme / Merchandise Exports Incentive Scheme), litigation tracker etc.

Ideate supply chain solutions to optimize GST /Customs duty cost by standardizing procurement and distribution cycle of various business models

Collaborate with senior indirect tax professionals to envisage their IT needs - their concerns in managing IDT compliance and work together to configure products/ offerings which may enhance their efficiency and provide solutions to client problems

Build and mentor a team of IDT professionals

Train hard core tax technical professionals in the firm in basics of technology which they need for being more effective in their practice area considering the enhanced role of technology in the GST and Customs arena

Work on specific big ticket assignments/ engagements of IDT more efficiently deliverthe same with the aid of technology solutions

Capable of having a vision of how technology and IT including new frontiers, like RPA, Blockchain, AI and other technological inflexion points can influence and transform the practice of indirect taxes to make it simpler and efficient

Ability to focus on Market and business development with eye on client requirements

Desired qualifications

CA/LLB or wide exposure to use of technology in accounting & tax in Industry / Revenue Service

Desirable educational qualification: Engineering degree

Strong Technical Knowledge

Leadership Qualities

Effective communication and presentation skills

Persistent and persuasive

Location and way of working

• Base location: Chennai
• This profile involves frequent travelling to client locations
• Hybrid is our default way of working. Each domain has customized the hybrid approach to their unique needs.

Your role as a Director

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• Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation
• Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose
• Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity
• Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future
• Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders
• Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions
• Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen
• Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities
• Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization
• Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities
• Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for
• the success of engagement(s)
• Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience
• Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems
• Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte
• Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviours and attitudes to become more inclusive.

Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity

Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviours and attitudes to become more inclusive.

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