Senior Tax Advisor

As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for managing advisory engagements for MNCs involving mergers, demergers, business and share acquisitions, investment structuring, and joint ventures. The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure strategic execution, regulatory compliance, and optimal tax efficiency.

Tax Structuring:

• You will ideate on tax structuring options for multinational clients.
• Evaluation of India inbound structuring options is also a key aspect of this role.

Regulatory Compliance:

• You will manage end-to-end regulatory compliance processes for acquisitions.
• Cross-coordinating the implementation of subsequent mergers and consolidations across India, ensuring seamless integration and adherence to legal and procedural requirements.

Tax Due Diligence:

• You will plan tax due diligence work and advise clients in negotiating the terms of transaction and documents based on the findings of tax due diligence.

Tax Planning:

• You will devise a practical approach to resolving tax issues in structuring assignments.
• Conducting comprehensive reviews of business operations to identify tax planning opportunities and compliance gaps.

Client Management & Business Development:

• You will proactively communicate, respond, and share updates and developments of assignments with clients.
• Be the central point of contact and liaise with client stakeholders, Partner/Principal, local stakeholders, and the team.
• You will develop and maintain relationships with CFOs and Tax Directors.
• Demonstrate professionalism by working within legal and regulatory guidelines while remaining independent and objective at all times.

A/C Mining/Revenue:

• You will identify new business opportunities in existing clients by keenly keeping track of developments at the client end, tax arena, and overall industry trends.
• Building credibility and delivering high-quality solutions while building rapport with Principal/Partners' clients and key stakeholders to ensure repeat business.

Knowledge Management:

• You will understand the tax compliance landscape and 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.
• Acquiring industry insights to improvise on current services.
• Developing content for networking in external events and seminars.
• Sharing knowledge acquired from external forums with team members.
• Regularly update Knowledge management database with new updates.

Brand Management:

• You will represent and endorse expertise and scope of service at various external forums.
• Interacting with peers and building a high-quality network in the industry.
• Publishing articles and research papers on a regular basis.
• Sharing knowledge and learning at external forums to increase visibility and credibility.

People Management:

• You will provide guidance to the team, facts/issues/tech inputs/industry practice/etc., proactively to enable them to deliver on assignments.
• Identifying and pointing out challenges so that they can be overcome quickly with solutions and supporting them to resolve challenges/conflicts.
• Connecting with team on a regular basis to ensure the assignment is closed within agreed TAT.
• Tracking team performance and sharing continuous feedback.
• Assessing individual and team performance on closure of the assignment and sharing feedback and learnings with team.
• Creating a learning environment and encouraging people to leverage each other's strengths and deliver high-quality, consistent performance.

Client Delivery:

• You will review available information and assessing the data/documents required from client.
• Researching and scrutinizing all aspects of the assignment with the team to ideate and provide optimal solutions while involving Senior Associates/Analyst/Articles for data research while working on the base report of the assignment.
• Supporting Partners/Principal by drafting memo's/opinions and reports.
• Building client relationship and developing strong understanding of the client's requirement and the business.
• Reviewing available information and necessary data/documents required from client.
• Scrutinizing Notice/Orders and sharing the inputs with Principal/Partner for further steps.
• Researching and scrutinizing all aspects of the assignment with the team to ideate and provide optimal solutions.
• Drafting Appeals for review by Partner/Principal and attend hearing. Attending hearings/submission of appeal and proactively updating the client on a regular basis with regards to assignment development.
• COMPLIANCES: Reviewing documents/forms/returns internally to maintain accuracy. Periodically coordinating with clients for necessary documents and recording all the documents related to assignment secured to ensure smooth closure of assignment.
• Demonstrating professionalism by working within legal and regulatory guidelines while remaining independent and objective at all times.

Client Support:

• You will 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.

Ideation/Innovation:

• You will devise litigation plans and solutions to effectively resolve clients' tax disputes.

Internal Processes:

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