Assistant Finance Manager

Assistant Finance Manager - Tax

Job Description

Requisition Id: R

Role Title: Assistant Finance Manager - Tax

Work Level: 1D

Work Location: Mumbai - HO

Qualifications:

• CA with 3-4 years' experience to support in managing the critical direct tax compliances incl.

Business Partnership for some of the key activities as follows:

Tax reporting & Advance tax compliances:

• HUL being the listed entity in India & part of UL Group, tax reporting and advance tax compliance are critical and as entity, we have committed to timely and accurate reporting and payment to the exchequer. This role has the responsibility for preparation of timely and accurate advance tax computations and tax provisions. This requires close co-ordination with business & Finance Business Partners in fact-finding, collating accounting information, technical research incl. search of past judicial precedents/ commentaries, etc. The role provides support in compilation of all this information for an informed tax treatment by Direct Tax Lead for the Group.

Withholding – TDS & TCS compliances:

• As we have seen past few years, the Indian government has been introducing new WHT (TDS / TCS) provisions every year to increase the tax net under Direct tax

• The landing of new tax law for all UL India entities is a key activity as it involves steps like – evaluating a new tax law, interacting with Business teams to undertake the impact assessment, IT development, landing the change across UL India entities and across business segments, communication to the Business/ Business Partners being impacted by the change

• This role plays a pivotal to support the implementation of new tax law – co-ordinating with the Business teams, preparing position notes, draft communications (internal and external), etc.

• The role has a responsibility of ensuring and governing timely TDS & TCS compliances with support of shared service team and external service providers.

Supporting departmental audits:

• HUL is a listed entity is India & is committed to robust tax submissions during the course of tax assessments.

• The departmental audits are now under faceless tax regime and hence, the written submissions play a critical role in representation before the revenue authorities.

• The submissions form the base for future outcome as well as set the foundation for future appeals/ litigation, in case the department disagrees to HUL's tax treatment

• Therefore, the role is of critical importance to ensure compilation and preparation of information for onward submission to the revenue authorities. This requires extensive co-ordination with various stakeholders like Finance, service providers, shared service team, etc. to ensure we have right set of information for representation.

Supporting Litigation Management:

• The role requires closing monitoring of upcoming appeals, compilation of information for appeals, compilation of paper book, co-ordinating with External Counsels/ consultants for briefing of the direct tax matters (including transfer pricing).

Other roles and responsibilities:

• Providing support on Indirect Tax matters, including GST compliance, assessments, audits, and regulatory updates.

• Digitalisation projects within direct tax ambit

• Routine visits to tax office for refunds, order giving effects, etc.

• Business Partnering

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