Associate - Mergers & Acquisition Tax - Big4

Job Description & Summary :

A career in our Merger and Acquisition Tax practice, within Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet and manage their tax obligations across unique but ever changing tax specialties. You'll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing direct taxes, dispute resolution, and global enterprise tax solutions.

Our team helps our clients with various aspects of a merger and acquisition transactions such as restructuring, divestiture, partnerships and insolvency. You'll focus on helping clients establish treasury goals, analyse and quantify tax assets, assess tax risks, and model taxable income and cash flow impacts.

As an Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. The firm's professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

- Invite and give feedback in a constructive manner.

- Share and collaborate effectively with others.

- Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.

- Handle, manipulate and analyse data and information responsibly.

- Follow risk management and compliance procedures.

- Keep up-to-date with developments in area of specialism.

- Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner , both verbally and in the documents that you produce.

- Build and maintain an internal and external network.

Seek opportunities to learn about how the firm works as a global network of firms.

- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Client Delivery:

- Identify the economic, broad business, legal and financial risks of a given transaction. Develop an understanding of established management concepts and practices that may have application and impact on the transaction.

- Undertaking tax due diligence of the companies being evaluated for acquisition. Providing M&A advisory services and PE strategies.

- Review agreements (share purchase agreements, subscription agreements, trust deeds, business transfer agreements, asset sale/purchase agreements, etc.)

- Draft schemes of arrangement/amalgamation; concept presentations with overall objectives being achieved in a tax efficient and regulatory compliant manner.

- M&A deal data tracking globally and league tables preparation. Perform M&A- or industry- or company-focused desktop researches.

- Maintain data controls of research papers and conduct hygiene checks on regular intervals. Prepare service summary.

- Demonstrating professionalism by working within legal and regulatory guidelines while remaining independent and objective at all times.

Research & Technical Opinions:

- Execute an exhaustive research for the clients in line with their expectations. Ensure usage of all tools (External market data/internal portals) to generate effective research.

- Undergo regular technical trainings/ knowledge sharing session within team to deliver effectively as well as efficiently.

Desired Candidate Profile:

- Qualified CAs

- 0 to 1 years of experience in Direct & International tax practice as part of articleship or post qualification. M&A Tax experience is good to have but not mandatory.

- Passion to work in M&A tax field. Good understanding of tax laws.

- Good command over MS Excel - can use formulas and comfortable with computations

- Strong interpersonal skills (ability to liaise at all levels). - Ability to communicate and interact with clients

- An energetic and innovative individual with entrepreneurial attitude and strong business acumen.

- Ability to work cooperatively as well as independently under pressure with close attention to detail.