Assistant Manager - Direct Tax Regulatory - CA

Main job responsibilities would include: 

- Leading a team comprising of qualified chartered accountants and handling a bouquet of corporate clients

- Finalizing client deliverables in consultation with the Partner

- Leading and coordinating tax planning and tax risk management assignments, with guidance from the reporting supervisor. This would involve handling advisory, litigation and business tax requirements of clients, comprising of:

- Providing holistic tax solutions to Client tax issues considering domestic tax and international tax. Provide tax risk analysis pro-actively on transactions planned by Clients. Suggesting possible structuring options to meet the desired objectives of the client. Manage all tax compliances relating to a portfolio of Clients

- Withholding tax advisory

- Reviewing key corporate tax returns and vetting of tax positions

- Overseeing litigation matters and attending to notices from the Tax Department

- Ensuring that business tax requirements are met

- Leading the review and modification of key tax processes and systems and identifying opportunities to streamline them

- Managing and maintaining relationship with clients

- Identifying new opportunities for serving existing clients, deciding the scope and pricing

- Initiating and actively participating in client meetings

- Supervising, training and mentoring the team

- Actively working with cross-functional teams to provide holistic tax solutions to clients

- Ensuring that projects are completed efficiently within the budgeted time and cost

- Supporting practice management initiatives and catering to financial metrics

Required Candidate profile

To be tailor-fit for the above skillsets, you need to be,

- A strong passion and interest for tax

4+ years experience in:

- Income tax advisory, litigation and compliance

- Assignments involving significant technical research

- Strong Project Management skills

- Knowledge on interpretation of double tax avoidance agreements

-  Working knowledge of Transfer Pricing principles

- Experience in/exposure to M&A transactions and FEMA will be an added advantage

- Good communication skills including legal/technical drafting

- Good interpersonal skills

- Only candidates currently residing in or willing to relocate to Pune need apply.