Manager - Corporate Tax Services - Financial Services Tax Practice - Big 4 - CA

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Financial Services Tax practice, within Corporate Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their business. You'll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners. You'll also help organisations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties, as well as providing advice on tax implications of deals.

Our team helps our Financial Services clients navigate the frequently changing and complex national and international tax environment related to stringent capital requirements, management of operational tax risks, and tax implications of investing in different jurisdictions. You'll help our clients with their tax structuring while helping to address the challenges of the continuously changing tax world, both locally and globally.

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

- Independently handle all aspects of engagements

- Handle multiple team verticals

- Analyse complex technical issues and offer solutions

- Independently build relationships at middle to senior client management

- Expand opportunities within existing clients, identify and act on referrals in relation to the service line

- Independently handle tax assessments and represent before tax officials

- Front end discussions and make presentations before client on technical matters

- End to end management of client deliverables ensuring quality and timeliness

- Assist Director/ Sr. Manager proactively on business development/new mandate

- Assist Director/ Sr. Manager in thought leadership initiatives to provide innovative solutions

- Overseeing the work of juniors- (AM/ Associates)

- Coaching/ developing team members

- Work on joint projects with other teams

Profile requirements-

Working in this discipline will see a Manager working fairly independently on engagements while managing teams (the sizes of which will vary depending on client/project).

To qualify for the same a Manager will need:

- To be a Qualified Chartered Accountant with 5+ years of relevant experience

- To have a thorough technical knowledge of Tax, SEBI regulations, FEMA regulations

- Prior Experience in Big 4 working with FS clients like banks, (NBFCs), insurance/reinsurance companies, foreign portfolio investors, stock-brokers, mutual funds, asset management companies, etc.

- Experience in advising on tax and regulatory issues relating to the Financial Services sector with emphasis on structuring investment strategies of Private Equity Funds, Foreign Venture Capital Funds, Real Estate Funds, Foreign Institutional Investors, etc

- To demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills

- To have excellent presentation and report writing skills

- Be strong in Team handling and Client handling skills

- Have the necessary soft skills to demonstrate confidence and sophistication in interacting with senior level client personnel

- Through knowledge of Tax laws, SEBI regulations, Double Tax Avoidance Agreements, FEMA regulations, Company Law and other laws relating to FS space

- Awareness regarding all developments from tax and regulatory standpoint in FS space is expected

- Aware of commercial aspects of transactions in FS space

Other pre-requisite skills include:

- Demonstrating innovative and critical thinking in managing projects

- Passion for client servicing

- Ability to multi-task and have full control of engagements

- Strong analytical and numerical skills

- Ability to independently manage engagement economics

- Strong interpersonal and networking skills

- Efficiency in presentation and report writing skills

- Being motivated, creative and decisive in approach to problem solving

- Ability to manage and coach teams showing effective delegation of tasks

- Communicate with Impact & Empathy

- Demonstrate Courage & Integrity

- Be Open Minded, Practical & Agile with Change

Perks and Benefits

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