Tax Compliance Manager

Promote a proactive tax compliance approach, leveraging the tax and regulatory environment to drive strategic decision making. Regularly assess and improve operations and stay up-to-date on relevant global tax & statutory changes to enhance Tax efficiency and effectiveness.

1. Advise the business to protect profitability in domestic and cross-border markets.
2. Ensure effective monitoring of tax governance and alignment on tax positions adopted by engagement teams, Internal Financial Services (IFS), and finance teams.
3. Manage relationships with tax consultants and IFS functions to ensure efficient compliance with tax and regulatory positions and policies to minimize litigation risks.
4. Oversee interactions with internal and external auditors to ensure effective audit completion.

• Monitor tax governing framework for tax asset realization to avoid working capital lock-in and ensure review of operations to prevent tax leakage.
• Responsible for timely execution of Tax and regulatory compliance with accuracy and quality.
• Accountable for adequacy of Tax provision, ownership of Tax accounts, and adherence to tax positions.
• Ensure effective tax assessments and litigation management by conducting thorough research on tax matters to represent the tax position accurately with detailed documentation within deadlines.
• Ensure timely closure of audit points with complete and accurate submission of schedules and documents.
• Ensure timely responses to engagement consultations and adequate safeguards in engagement documents from tax and regulatory perspectives. Ensure engagement teams and other stakeholders understand tax implications and consider them in business transactions.
• Ensure application controls are embedded in financials and tertiary applications and regularly review them to maintain effective controls. Regularly review exception reports and take corrective action.
• Ensure timely maintenance of documentation related to compliance and assessments, and update reporting applications accordingly.
• Contribute effectively to the firm's strategic projects, ensuring finance aspects are properly considered.
• Responsible for mitigating tax and regulatory risks through firm policies and business model adjustments.
• Ensure accurate and compliant tax and regulatory reporting, highlighting exceptions, and stay updated with changes in tax laws. Evaluate the impact on operations and business models and factor it into policies and cost of operations.
• Responsible for maintaining robust internal controls and regular reviews to prevent errors and fraud, ensuring tax and regulatory reporting integrity. Update firm operations and policies according to the latest tax and regulatory frameworks.
• Report agreed Process KPIs and strengthen review mechanisms. Ensure timely compliance with governance on monthly reporting.
• Maintain adherence to interdepartmental deliverables through Interlock documents.
• Responsible for meeting KQI and RCSA KPIs and taking corrective actions for continuous improvement. Periodically review RCSA under Risk Mitigation strategy and enhance the RCSA framework.
• Lead the implementation of technological advancements in the function using best-in-class automation practices to drive efficiency in overall finance processes impacting tax and regulatory compliance.

• Team Management: Supervise and manage teams, including performance, productivity, and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) adherence.
• Performance Monitoring: Maintain and evaluate individual and team performance metrics. Ensure fair and equitable measurement of performance.
• Coaching and Training: Provide ongoing coaching, monitoring, and training to enhance team members' futuristic skill sets, knowledge, and regulatory/technical competencies.
• Quality Assurance: Maintain quality standards and conduct frequent quality checks to identify areas for improvement and implement corrective actions based on feedback.
• Recognize and reward individual efforts to enhance motivation.

Qualifications: Chartered Accountant