Senior Manager - Direct Tax - Accounting Firm

Senior Manager - Direct Tax

JOB DESCRIPTION:

- Leading a team comprising of qualified chartered accountants and handling a bouquet of corporate clients/ Individuals and partnership firms

- Finalizing client deliverables in consultation with the Partner

- Leading and coordinating tax planning and tax risk management assignments, with guidance from the Partner. This would involve handling advisory, litigation and business tax requirements of clients, comprising of and not limited to:

- Consultation on inbound and outbound investments

- Permanent Establishment issues

- Withholding tax advisory

- Reviewing key corporate tax returns and vetting of tax positions

- Overseeing litigation matters and attending to notices from the Tax Department

- Ensuring that business tax requirements are met

- Leading the review and modification of key tax processes and systems and identifying opportunities to streamline them

- Managing and maintaining relationship with clients

- Identifying new opportunities for serving existing clients, deciding the scope and pricing

- Actively working with cross-functional teams to sights new opportunities which can be taken to prospective clients

- Initiating and actively participating in client meetings

- Supervising, training and mentoring the team

- Actively working with cross-functional teams to provide holistic tax solutions to clients

- Ensuring that projects are completed efficiently within the budgeted time and cost

- Supporting practice management initiatives and catering to financial metrics

DESIRED CANDIDATE PROFILE:

A strong passion and interest for tax with 8+ years of experience in:

- Income tax advisory, litigation and compliance

- Assignments involving significant technical research

- Strong Project Management skills

- Knowledge on interpretation of double tax avoidance agreements

- Working knowledge of Transfer Pricing principles

- Experience in/exposure to FEMA will be an added advantage

- Good communication skills including legal/technical drafting

- Good interpersonal skills