Indirect Tax Manager

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to lead our Indirect Tax team. As a senior manager, you will be responsible for providing advisory services to clients on GST, Customs, FTP, and other indirect tax laws in India and GCC.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in compliance, representation, advisory, and litigation exposure, as well as expertise in client mining activities.

You will be responsible for developing and implementing effective strategies to manage indirect tax risks and ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

In addition to your technical expertise, you will also be expected to possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including legal and technical drafting.

We are looking for a collaborative and results-driven individual who can build strong relationships with clients, stakeholders, and colleagues.

Responsibilities will include:

• Leading client fronting indirect tax 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 growth.
• Advise and assist clients in forming indirect tax strategies to cover indirect tax exposure.
• Being a consultant/ advisor on erstwhile indirect tax / GST matters to other practices across all locations.
• Risk management from an erstwhile indirect tax / GST perspective on all Nexdigm engagements across all locations.
• Identifying the impact of applied/proposed changes in the indirect tax laws upon client business and accordingly advise them on the way forward.
• Controlling and managing indirect tax practice of branch locations, if need be, other than that of home location, (if required).
• 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).
• Expected to assume P&L responsibility for the defined scope of work.
• Aligning with Partners/ sales team to generate leads and take it to order book level.
• Representing the indirect tax team at practice level, wherever required, and identifying solutions to be provided to the common leads identified.
• Managing and maintaining relationships with clients, other BUs and internal stakeholders.
• 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.
• Development of the Practice and promotion of the brand name articles in publications, regular update management for clients, speaker at seminars, etc.
• Managing current and developing new relationships and alliances covering but not limited to Trade bodies, Nexia network firms, Law Firms, Technology alliances and other similar organizations.
• Achieving assigned number KPIs about:
  • Lead generation.
  • Sales closure combining IDT technical knowledge and commercial skills.
  • Client mining and account expansion.
  • Product campaigns about IDT products including tax technology products.
  • Support in preparation of monthly/ quarterly sheets for leadership from an overall practice perspective.
  • Reporting and maintaining the MIS from practice and sales perspective and updating the leadership on the progress achieved.
• 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 the team/ with other departments,.
• Building team morale and motivating people in the team and firm, and retention of existing employees.
• Address issues at the emotional/infrastructural level at work being faced by teams, take responsibility for team building and motivation of teams.
• Identifying training needs of teams and assisting in skill building where deficiencies are identified,.
• Ensure onboarding and process training happen for new employees.
• Perform timely appraisal and provide a balance between firm and employee aspirations.
• Develop subordinates for the next levels.