Senior Manager/Manager - Direct Tax & Regulatory Services - CA - Consulting Firm

Role specific skillsets :

Your job responsibilities will be :

- Leading a team comprising of qualified chartered accountants and handling a bouquet of corporate clients

- Finalising client deliverables in consultation with the Partner

- Leading and co-ordinating 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:

- 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

- 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 :

Candidate qualification & experience :

- Qualified CA, Additional qualification of CS/LLB would be preferred (not mandatory)

- 5 10 years post qualification experience in taxation (domestic and international tax)

General skillsets :

- A strong passion and interest for tax

- 5+ years 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