Senior Manager - Indirect Tax - CA

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Operations - 70 to 75% weightage

- Leading client fronting indirect tax (GST/ Customs/ FTP) engagements (Compliance, Representation, Advisory and Litigation)

- Scoping

- Technical and quality reviews

- On-time delivery

- Client liaison

- Expected to be involved in end-to-end reporting for his/ her client/ region sales, budgets, billing and their growth

- Involved in preparation of monthly/ quarterly sheets for leadership from overall practice perspective.

- Expected to assume P&L responsibility for the defined scope of work

- Being a consultant/ advisor on erstwhile indirect tax / GST matters to other Nexdigm practices across all locations

- Risk management from an erstwhile indirect tax / GST perspective on all Nexdigm engagements across all locations

- Controlling and managing indirect tax practice of branch locations, if need be, other than that of home location, (if required)

- Keeping track of and providing insights on various issues related to recent developments in Indirect taxes in India and globally

- Can plan and execute various practice development initiatives (incl. standardizing operating practices, and protocols for recurring activities)

Clients' account expansion and business development: 20-25% weightage:

- Aligning with Partners/ sales team to generate leads and take it till order book level.

- Representing indirect tax team at practice level, wherever required, and identifying solutions to be provided to the common leads identified

- Managing and maintaining relationship with clients, other BU's and internal stake holders

- Advise and assist clients in forming indirect tax strategies to cover indirect tax exposure

- Strive to provide new and innovative indirect tax solutions to clients

- Identifying new opportunities for serving existing clients

- Targeting and obtaining work from potential clients

- Development of the Practice and promotion of the Nexdigm brand name - articles in publications, regular update management for clients, speaker at seminars, etc.

- Managing current and developing new relationships and alliances covering but not limited to Trade bodies, Nexia network firms, Law Firms, Technology alliances and other similar organizations

- Achieving assigned number KPIs pertaining to:

a. Lead generation

b. Sales closure combining IDT technical knowledge and commercial skills

c. Client mining and account expansion

d. Product campaigns in relation to IDT products including tax technology products

- Reporting and maintaining the MIS from practice and sales perspective and updating the leadership on the progress achieved.

Leading people and development: 5-10% weightage

- Building and managing a team including recruitment, appraisals, developing training material, providing training to team members, and technically guiding the teams in completing their assigned deliverables

- Review of efficient and effective planning, selection and team management of all resources throughout the year including temporary resource redeployment within team/ with other departments,

- Building of team morale and motivate people in the team and firm, and retention of existing employees

- Address issues at emotional / infrastructural level at work being faced by teams, take responsibility for team building and motivation of teams

- Identifying training needs of teams and assist in skill building where deficiencies identified,

- Ensure on-boarding and process training happens for new employees

- Perform timely appraisal and provide balance between firm and employee aspirations

- Develop subordinates for the next levels

DESIRED CANDIDATE PROFILE:

- Chartered Accountant / Lawyer with 5 - 7 years experience in indirect tax out of which at least 80% should be from serving clients in West region:

- Specialist knowledge of Goods and Services Tax, erstwhile indirect tax laws

- Experience of Customs legislation and Foreign Trade Policy

- Basic work experienced in Foreign Trade Agreements

- Experience should be in compliance, representation, advisory and adequate litigation exposure

- In depth indirect taxation exposure in few sectors like (Automotive, Pharmaceutical, Information Technology, FMCG, SME, BFSI, manufacturing etc.)

- The candidate should have or handled a portfolio of approximately 2 crores and should have strong presence in West.

- Experience of advisory and compliance with respect to Special Economic Zones (SEZ)

- Experience of independently handling GST implementation projects for clients from planning phase to execution and delivery

- Experience of liaising with government officials and building rapport with officials

- Should have been in a client facing role

- Supervisory / leadership experience of at least 4 years

- Manager (or at least a DM / AM) in a Big 4 or Partner / Principal in a mid-sized firm (of more than 4 partners)

- Excellent written and spoken communication skills including legal / technical drafting

- Very good interpersonal skills