Tax Expert

Senior Tax Manager

We are seeking an experienced and skilled Senior Tax Manager to join our team.

• Manage advisory engagements for Indian and foreign MNCs involving mergers, demergers, business and share acquisitions, investment structuring, and joint ventures.
• Support clients throughout the business lifecycle by conducting detailed quantitative analysis, managing seamless execution of plans, and applying effective structuring strategies to help achieve their commercial and strategic goals.
• Ideate on tax structuring options for multinational clients, evaluate India inbound structuring options, and manage end-to-end regulatory compliance processes for acquisitions.
• Plan tax due diligence work, advise clients in negotiating the terms of transaction and documents based on the findings of tax due diligence, and devise a practical approach to resolving tax issues in structuring assignments.
• Conduct comprehensive reviews of business operations to identify tax planning opportunities and compliance gaps, support Partner/ Principal in tax planning and tax management of assignments, and research estimated service cost & man hours required for project prior to pitching.

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively communicate, respond, and share updates & development of assignment on a regular basis with clients.
• Liaise with client stakeholders, Partner/ Principal, local stakeholders, and the team, proactively developing and maintaining relationships with CFOs and Tax Directors.
• Demonstrate professionalism by working within legal and regulatory guidelines while remaining independent and objective at all times.

Tax Planning & Advisory:

• Identify new business opportunities in existing clients by keenly keeping track of developments at the 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 the tax compliance landscape, ideate how technology can be used internally (by tax professionals in the firm) and externally (by industry clients) to make the compliance process more effective - simpler, speedier, and qualitatively superior.
• Acquire industry insights to improvise on current services, develop content for networking in external events & seminars, and share knowledge acquired from external forums with team members.

Brand Representation:

• Represent and endorse our expertise and scope of service at various external forums, interact with peers, and build a high-quality network in the industry.
• Publish articles & research papers on a regular basis, share knowledge and learning at external forums to increase visibility and credibility.

Team Leadership:

• Provide guidance to the 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 a regular basis to ensure the assignment is closed within agreed TAT, track team performance & share continuous feedback, assess individual and team performance on closure of the assignment and share feedback and learnings with team.

Client Delivery:

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

Client Support:

• Offer necessary data and information to assist clients as needed, capture key outcomes of client meetings accurately and share comprehensive summaries with the client/Principal.

Solution Ideation:

• Devising litigation plans and solutions to effectively resolve clients' tax disputes.

Internal Processes:

• Review engagement letters with precision, monitor the entire invoicing process, including diligent follow-ups for outstanding payments and monitoring payment statuses.
• Establish and uphold data controls for research papers, perform regular hygiene checks to ensure accuracy, assist Principal in updating MIS on regular basis, prepare service summary, review important client communications, and ensure all facts & research is recorded securely.
• Identify project overruns and initiate actions to recover from the same, maintains blend of self and team contribution.

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