Chartered Accountant - Taxation - Financial Services Firm

Job Title: Manager

Location: Mumbai Parel

Job Description:

- Leading engagements with respect to direct tax advisory services with specific focus on transaction structuring, corporate restructuring/ business reorganizations, review of transaction documentation (such as share purchase/ subscription agreement, shareholders' agreement, merger/ demerger schemes, business transaction agreements, valuation reports, etc) and other implementation support.

- Independently Handling due diligence from an income-tax standpoint (including all co-ordination/ correspondences/ communication with clients/ advisors/ bankers/ financial diligence teams).

- Leading a team comprising of qualified chartered accountants and handling a bouquet of transaction tax clients.

- Finalizing client deliverables in consultation with the Partner/Director/Associate Director.

- Leading and coordinating tax planning and tax risk management assignments, with guidance from the reporting supervisor.

- Preparation of tax opinions, memos in power point and word formats and other deliverables from an M&A/ transaction tax standpoint.

- Handling transaction tax and regulatory filings and compliances such as deposit of withholding taxes/ TCS, Form 15CA/ CBs, income-tax returns, Form FC-GPR, etc.

- Managing and maintaining relationship with clients.

- Drafting & preparing proposals & pitch presentations with respect to existing & new clients and business affiliates (including identifying leads_.

- Research and documentation of positions of complex transaction tax issues both domestic and international taxation standpoint.

- Managing conversations and correspondences with clients, counsels, advisors, internal Firm stakeholders, etc.

- Regularly updating knowledge and being abreast of latest developments from tax and regulatory standpoint.

- Sharing tax and industry updates with the team and encourage sharing of best practices within team and across teams.

- 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 and help in overall growth.

- Research and assistance in writing/ co-authoring technical thought-leadership publication and articles for print and online media.

Desired Profile:

- Qualified Chartered Accountant.

- Post qualification experience in direct tax of at least 5 years.

- Experience in handling transaction tax/ M&A matters.

Skill Set:

- The candidate should have good understanding of the Income Tax Law and other Acts such as Companies Act, FEMA and SEBI Laws.

- Good and timely communication and drafting/ writing skills.

- Timelines-oriented, analytical and possess sound business knowledge.

- Good ability to train the team and handle conversations with internal and external stakeholders.

Required Skills:.

- Transaction tax.

- Direct tax due diligence.

- Company law.

- FEMA.

- SEBI.

- Direct tax advisory.

- Mergers and Acquisition.