Tax Specialist for Corporate Transactions

Job Title: Mergers and Acquisitions Tax Specialist

Job Summary:

The Mergers and Acquisitions Tax Specialist will be responsible for providing strategic advisory services to clients involving mergers, demergers, business and share acquisitions, investment structuring, and joint ventures.

• Manage cross-functional teams to ensure strategic execution, regulatory compliance, and optimal tax efficiency.
• 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 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 transaction and documents based on the findings of tax due diligence.
• Devise a practical approach to resolving tax issues in structuring assignments and conduct comprehensive reviews of business operations to identify tax planning opportunities and compliance gaps.
• Support Partner/ Principal in the tax planning and tax management of assignments.
• Support Partner/ Principal in Planning & strategizing approach for litigation and ideating novel ways to resolve tax disputes of clients.
• Research estimated service cost & man hours required for project prior to pitching and draft/present proposals to clients.

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

• Understand the tax compliance landscape and ideate how technology can be used internally and externally to make the compliance process more effective.
• 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.

• Provide guidance to the team and proactively enable them to deliver on assignments.
• Identify and point out challenges so that they can be overcome quickly with solutions and support team members to resolve challenges/conflicts.
• Connect with team on a regular basis to ensure the assignment is closed within agreed TAT and track team performance & share continuous feedback.
• Create a learning environment and encourage people to leverage each other's strengths and deliver high quality, consistent performance.

• Review available information and assess the data/documents required from client, researching and scrutinizing all aspects of the assignment to provide optimal solutions.
• 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.
• Review available information and necessary data/documents required from client.
• Scrutinize Notice/Orders and share the inputs with Principal/ Partner for further steps.
• Research and scrutinize all aspects of the assignment to provide optimal solutions.
• Draft Appeals for review by Partner/ Principal and attend hearings.
• Attend hearings/submission of appeal and proactively update the client on a regular basis with regards to assignment development.
• Compliances: Review documents/forms/returns internally to maintain accuracy and periodically coordinate with clients for necessary documents.