Specialist - Direct Tax

Job ID: 40542

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Audit, Accounting & Finance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 19 Sept 2025

Job Summary

 Provide Tax Compliance, Reporting and Forecasting support to the specific country tax teams assigned, as detailed below:

• Gather inputs, collate data, analyse information to compute tax and prepare necessary tax return workpapers and forms
• Learn & Use the available software applications in the process like Onesource, Longview, SAP, PSGL and any other internal or licensed applications needed to perform the job
• Interact and maintain strong working relation with various stakeholders in the process to achieve the job objectives
• Support country tax in maintaining and updating Tax Risk Reports
• Collation of Country by Country reporting information.
• Support on extraction of tax audit information and maintain Audit defence files
• Support the process in various other ancillary processes and tasks to accomplish the job objective
• Support the team in achieving the common goals of the organisation
• Be proactive in identifying areas of improvement and achieve the efficiency and cost save targets
• Train the new hires during onboarding and the team for any updates, etc
• General administrative support to finance teams

Qualifications

• University degree preferable in Finance or Accounting (Mandatory)
• Professional qualification such as CA, CWA or MBA Finance (Desirable)
• Minimum 1-2 years' experience in tax and accounting environments (Desirable)
• Good understanding of general tax principles and accounting treatment for taxes (current & deferred tax)
• Good understanding or knowledge of Indian/International income-tax laws
• Working knowledge of Excel and other MS Office applications (Mandatory)
• Good understanding of Automation tools, AI, ML (desirable)

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.