Principal - Direct Taxation

About the job - Advice on classification, valuation, the applicability of taxes on transactions and admissibility to tax benefits/exemptions.

- Providing innovative but rigorous tax planning ideas (Tax Reviews / Health Checks /Due Diligence Reviews).

- Undertaking comprehensive reviews of business operations to identify tax planning opportunities as well as compliance gaps.

- Administer all corporate tax processes and compliance, including corporate tax, transfer pricing, financials related certifications, fringe benefit tax, withholding tax etc.

- Lead and coordinate the tax planning and tax management of assignments, with guidance from the Partner and manage risk and compliance issues on client engagements.

- Planning & strategizing approach for litigation and exploring novel ways to resolve tax disputes of clients.

- Innovating & enhancing processes to achieve commercial targets effective.

- Researching estimated service cost & man hours required for project prior to pitching.

- Drafting & presenting proposals to clients with guidance of Partners.

- Building commercial substance in the current process & procedure and constantly innovating and improvising on the processes & plans for closing assignments

- Appearances and arguments before adjudication and appellate authorities up to the Tribunal.

- Develop and maintain an effective working relationship with the tax authorities, relevant members of the business and functional teams, other members of the local tax and international tax teams and external service providers

Knowledge Management:

- Understanding the tax compliance landscape and ideate how technology can be used, internally (by tax professionals in the firm) and externally (by industry clients) to make the compliance process more effective -simpler, speedier and qualitatively superior.

- Acquiring industry insights to improvise on current services.

- Developing content for networking in external events & seminars.

- Sharing knowledge acquired from external forums

- Passion to work in tax field.

- Good understanding of tax laws in India.

- 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.

- Financial analysis and modelling skills with excellent knowledge of data analysis and forecasting methods.

- Stress resilient with ability to handle multiple simultaneous priorities

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

- Excellent planning and organizational skills with the ability to successfully adapt to changing priorities.