Chief Tax Strategist

The Tax Function supports the organization's goals by providing strategic tax advice and managing regulatory compliance. Key responsibilities include:

• Prompt management of tax and regulatory risks, adapting the operating model to the tax and regulatory environment.
• Advising business on tax strategies to protect profitability in domestic and cross-border markets.
• Ensuring effective tax governance and alignment on tax positions adopted by engagement teams, Internal Finance Solutions (IFS), and finance teams.
• Managing relationships with tax consultants and IFS functions to ensure effective compliance on tax and regulatory positions and policies.

Key Responsibilities

1. Manage financial metrics related to tax assets realization to avoid working capital lock-in and ensure review of operations to avoid tax leakage.
2. Timely execution of Tax and regulatory compliance with accuracy and quality.
3. Ensure adequacy of Tax provision, owner of Tax accounts & ensuring tax positions are followed.
4. Effective tax assessments & litigation management by conducting due research on tax matters to ensure effective representation of the tax position adopted with detailed documentation within timelines.
5. Timely closure of audit points with complete and accurate submission of the schedules and documents.
6. Ensure timeline response to engagement consultation and adequate safeguard in the engagement documents from tax and regulatory perspectives. Ensure the engagement teams and other stakeholders understand the tax impact and consider it in business transactions.
7. Ensure the application controls are inbuilt in financials and tertiary applications and regular review of the same to ensure effective controls. Regular review of exception reporting and undertaking corrective action.
8. Ensure effective maintenance of the documentation with respect to compliance and assessments and timely update in the reporting applications.
9. Effective contribution to the firm's strategic projects ensuring the finance aspects are duly considered.
10. Responsible for actions to mitigate tax and regulatory risks on firm policies and business model.
11. Ensuring accurate tax and regulatory reporting highlighting exceptions, and staying updated with changes in tax laws, evaluate the impact on operations and business model and ensure the impact is factored in policies and cost of operations.
12. Responsible for maintaining robust internal controls and regular review to prevent errors and fraud and ensure the integrity of tax and regulatory reporting. Ensure the firm operations and policies are updated with the latest tax and regulatory framework.

Qualifications and Skills

• Chartered Accountant (CA)

Tax Efficiency Evolution Initiative

Take lead in implementation of technological advancements of the function with best-in-class automation practices, to drive efficiency in overall finance processes impacting tax and regulatory compliances.

Demonstrating People Leadership

a. Team Management: Supervising and managing a team, including their performance, productivity, and adherence to SOP

b. Performance Monitoring: Maintaining and evaluating individual and team performance metrics. Ensuring there is fair and equitable measurement of performance

c. Coaching and Training: Providing constant coaching, monitoring, and training to enhance team members' futuristic skill sets, knowledge, and Perform regulatory and technical training for the team

d. Quality Assurance: Maintaining quality standards and conducting frequent quality checks to identify areas of improvement and take corrective actions on feedback

e. Timely recognition of efforts made by individuals to enhance motivation