Mergers and Acquisitions Tax Specialist

Job Opportunity: Mergers and Acquisitions Tax Expert

We are seeking a skilled tax professional to manage advisory engagements for multinational companies. This role involves coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure strategic execution, regulatory compliance, and optimal tax efficiency.

• Manage advisory engagements for Indian and foreign multinational companies
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams for strategic execution and regulatory compliance

Key Responsibilities:

• Support clients throughout the business lifecycle by conducting detailed quantitative analysis and managing seamless execution of plans
• Apply effective structuring strategies to help achieve clients' commercial and strategic goals
• Ideate tax structuring options for multinational clients and evaluate India inbound structuring options
• Manage end-to-end regulatory compliance processes for acquisitions and coordinate the implementation of subsequent mergers and consolidations across India
• Plan tax due diligence work and advise clients in negotiating the terms of transactions and documents based on findings of tax due diligence
• Devising a practical approach to resolving tax issues in structuring assignments and conducting comprehensive reviews of business operations to identify tax planning opportunities and compliance gaps
• Support Partner/ Principal in tax planning and tax management of assignments
• Research estimated service cost & man hours required for project prior to pitching and drafting & presenting proposals to clients with guidance of Partners

Client Management & Business Development:

• Proactively communicate, respond and share updates & development of assignment on regular basis with clients
• Be central point of contact and liaise with client stakeholders, Partner/ Principal, local stakeholders and team
• Develop and maintain relationships with CFOs and Tax Directors, thereby creating high-quality professional network
• Identify and ideate leads from public & private sources and constantly evaluate feasibility of new opportunities

A/C Mining/Revenue:

• Identify new business opportunities in existing clients by keeping track of developments at client end, tax arena and overall industry trends
• Build credibility and deliver high quality solutions while building rapport with Principal/ Partners client and key stakeholders to ensure repeat business

Knowledge Management:

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

Brand Management:

• Represent & endorse expertise and scope of service at various external forums
• Publish articles& research papers on regular basis and share knowledge and learning at external forums to increase visibility and credibility

People Management:

• Provide guidance to team facts/issues/tech inputs/industry practice/ etc proactively to enable them to deliver on assignments
• Identify and point out challenges so that they can be overcome quickly with solutions and supporting them to resolve challenges/ conflicts
• Connect with team on regular basis to ensure assignment is closed within agreed TAT and tracking team performance & sharing continuous feedback
• Create learning environment and encourage people to leverage each other's strengths and deliver high quality, consistent performance

Client Delivery:

• Review available information & assess data/documents required from client, researching & scrutinizing all aspects of assignment with team to ideate and provide optimal solutions
• Support Partners /Principal by drafting memo's/ opinions and reports
• Build client relationship and develop strong understanding of client's requirement and the business
• Scrutinizing Notice/Orders and share inputs with Principal/ Partner for further steps
• Research & scrutinize all aspects of assignment with team to ideate and provide optimal solutions

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