Sarda Group - General Manager - Taxation & Legal

The Position is at the level of the group and therefore is at the senior Management level, accordingly the purpose and critical functions would be as follows:

Function (Dept) Purpose:

To legally safeguard the organization

Role Purpose:

To facilitate legal compliance and leverage (for all functions and businesses, in all aspects of their functioning)

The Key Expectations of the Role:

- To design and optimize processes, policies and practices for comprehensively addressing the legal issues

- To formally identify and prepare for a range of possible legal contingencies

- To build and sustain a responsive and systematically functioning team (internal and external)

- Decentralized (evidence based) decision making environment-

The Competencies required to effectively take on this role:

- Familiarity with wide range of business-related laws, procedures, precedents and practices

- High level of legal drafting skills

- Conceptualization skills

- Systematic in approach to work

- Problem solving orientation towards challenges

- Sensitivity to evidence-based-change of hypotheses-

The Person:

- CA with Legal orientation. LLB degree would be desirable.

- Corporate experience of at least 20 years with 5 years in a senior management position in the Taxation and Legal functions of a mid-sized firm. Experience in a multi-business firm would be an added advantage.