Assistant Manager/Manager - Corporate Tax - CA - Big4

Academic Qualifications : Chartered Accountant (Passed in 1 or 2 attempt)

Experience : 6 - 10 years of post qualification experience. Relevant tax (Corporate tax, Personal tax, Expat tax, Transfer pricing, International Tax) experience in Big 4/medium sized Domestic professional services/Audit firms.

Job Role :

- Leading and coordinating the planning and management of assignments- pricing, billing and recovery, maximizing fee opportunities- with guidance from the Partner.

- Develop sound value based solutions and apply technical knowledge in delivery of complex solutions to clients.

- Understand macro and strategic issues on client engagements.

- Develop specialized competence and begin to attract recognition within own service line as a technical resource for that specialization.

- Participate in own Service line teams or special projects across the firm.

- Creating / managing independent relationships with clients and building broad networks within the firm locally and internationally.

- Contribute to firm's profitability by generating additional work from existing clients and supporting in selling new client proposals.

- Expands opportunities with existing clients, identifies and acts on referrals in relation to the Service Line.

- Providing perspective to clients on trends and emerging practices in the local and global market in relation to client's operations.

- Is involved in developing new products, services and delivery methods linked to the area of specialization.

- Responsible for handling straightforward risk management issues and progressively taking on greater risk management responsibility while ensuring compliance to risk management strategies, plans and activities.

- Strong contribution to knowledge sharing efforts. Improving processes so that the team and firm capture and leverage knowledge.

- Proactively taking up a leadership role, working in cross service line engagements, mentor and coach team members and help in resolving people issues of the group.

Essentials :

- Excellent communication skills [written and oral]

- Good commercial acumen

- Good interpersonal and networking skills

- Strong marketing and business development skills.

- Team player.

- Strong leadership skills [creates high performance climate; serves as a role model, mentor, coach]

- Ability to work under pressure.

- Strong analytical ability, logical and problem solving approach on complex issues.

- In depth understanding of competition and competitor strategies.

- Technical competence in Tax and also the industry / specialized field.