Team Manager - Direct Tax - BFSI

Job Description

Purpose :

- The role is designed for supporting and leading the delivery of activities carried out by the Manage Direct Tax team. It involves both people management and individual contributor responsibilities as a reviewer & preparation of tax returns of certain material legal entities. It also provides a very good exposure towards stakeholder management as well as Direct tax compliance and Group reporting.

Responsibilities :

- Deliver on time and accurate tax reports, returns and payments for migrated activity and tax provision for all businesses in various tax jurisdictions [Countries] and adherence to the managerial metrics of the process

- Understand and operate various tax provisioning/compliance tools

- Understand Group Accounting and Reporting changes and enable incorporation of such changes and in the process as may be relevant

- Coordinate/support for tax audits as well as support for resolving all audit queries

- Provide steer and oversight for updation and maintenance of Key tax assumptions and Work Instructions & Training framework to reduce time to delivery to optimal levels (typically 3 months)

- Lead and manage and transition additional/new scope migrations of MDT activities.

- Ensure correct and timely escalations of process exceptions or tolerance/variances and their resolution

Requirements :

- Recognized professional qualification and a member of a recognized accounting body with 5 years broad professional experience.

- Work experience of migrated tax / finance activity in multinational companies or professional firms would be preferable. [or] Bachelors / Masters in Finance degree with 8 years broad professional experience out of which minimum 6 years of experience in migrated tax / finance activity in multinational companies or professional firms.

- Working knowledge of various ERP systems used in Shell Group and excellent MS Office skills.

- Good understanding of Control Framework, controls in a tax environment and tax accounting under GAAP and/or IFRS.

Additional expectations :

- Effective influencing skills and communicator of complex tax compliance issues; both written and oral.

- Support continuous professional development and good practices in MDT

- Proactively engage with Business and Country tax teams to enable business knowledge sharing with the MDT team and help embed into processes as relevant

- Planning of staffing vis-a-vis work assignments/projects/cross team projects etc in an optimal manner and evaluate resourcing requirements on an ongoing basis.

- Continuous focus on improvement opportunities (ESSA) in process & content, identify & actions opportunities to reduce complexity, promote best practices, provide focus on financial issues & achieve operational excellence;