MPL - Tax Analyst - CA

About the Company:

Mobile Premier League (MPL) is the world's leading mobile eSports platform that allows users to participate in free as well as paid competitions across 60+ games in multiple categories, including fantasy sports, sports games, puzzle, casual and board games. Founded in 2018, MPL hosts hundreds of millions of tournaments a month and is trusted by over 90 million registered users across Asia, Europe, and North America.

About the Role:

- The Tax Analyst will join our in-house Tax team and will focus on preparing tax work papers and calculations for various tax work streams including indirect and direct taxes, responding to correspondence from tax agencies, and assisting with the preparation of quarterly and annual income tax provisions and other ad hoc projects as needed.

Here's what you'll do:

- Undertake tax compliances - Downloading reports, general ledger, trial balance, reconciliation and determination of amounts to be paid

- Review of monthly/ quarterly/ annual returns in coordination with consultants

- Finalisation and filing of GST returns, income tax and transfer pricing

- Undertakes periodic credit reconciliations and coordinate with underlying team for vendor management

- Ensure compliance with adopted tax positions and timely filing of all returns

- Assist in litigation management

- Preparation of refund application wherever required in line with GST provisions, income tax and transfer pricing

- Preparation of draft responses towards departmental notices/ appeal to tax authorities in line with the adopted tax positions

- Extracting necessary data/ information for submission before authorities

- Finalising response/ appeal/ refund sets for submission

- Tax advisories - Advising business teams on queries related to business transactions, including undertaking positions on tax liability and credit entitlement

- Tax accounting - Ensuring correct book entries for GST related transaction, income tax and transfer pricing and undertake periodic reconciliation ensuring compliance of the same

- Track GST, income tax and transfer pricing updates and undertake impact analysis vis- vis current structure

What we're looking for:

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting. A Master's degree in Taxation or an equivalent qualification (e.g., CA, CPA, ACCA)

- 0 to 6 months of work experience, preference will be given to candidates having prior articleship experience in taxes

- Candidate handling indirect taxation (compliance and litigation) in tax consulting firms / Big 4 / Industry

- Working knowledge of tax legislations especially GST, income tax and transfer pricing legislation

- Knowledge of ERP systems (preferably Oracle) and prior working experience with ERP systems