ThoughtFocus - Senior Analyst - US Tax

ThoughtFocus Information Technologies, in partnership with The Blackstone Group, is seeking a Senior Analyst- Tax the Blackstone Private Equity team at the Blackstone Centre of Excellence in Gurgaon.

Firm Profile:

Blackstone is one of the world's leading investment firms. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Everything we do is guided by a set of principles that define our unique character and culture, which are a fundamental strength of our business- excellence, accountability, integrity, teamwork, entrepreneurship, leadership, commitment and meritocracy. Our asset management businesses, with almost $371 billion in assets under management, include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow Blackstone on Twitter @Blackstone.

Key Responsibilities:

- Preparing and Reviewing tax work papers that calculate partnership taxable income, with interaction with Investran and proprietary tax software.

- Gather and analyze financial information from underlying portfolio companies. Calculate partnership tax withholdings (ECI, FDAP & states).

- Track partnership/partner tax basis

- Assist with the preparation and review of quarterly estimates

- Provide support on miscellaneous projects and ad-hoc requests

- Populate reconciliation files built by the tax team with the results from the new application, validate and produce exception reports

- Learn and understand the fundamentals of the application functionality and the respective underlying business logic

- Analyze and document issues in issue tracker and help debug issues found by users or support team

- Escalate issues to 2nd level reviewers and assist with analysis

- Interface with tax and fund accounting team in US

- Assist in running events in the application and reconcile and document the results

- Work with interfacing systems- managers to maintain/enhance interfaces

Desired Candidate Profile:

- Candidate must be a Post Graduate with good knowledge of accounting and business analysis skills. Tax knowledge a plus.

- Candidates must have 5-8 years of relevant experience in US Partnership Tax

- Candidates with experience in Private Equity business, accounting, or tax experience are preferred

- Strong analytical, problem solving, critical thinking and decision-making skills, multi-task and deliver under tight deadlines; The candidate is a self-starter that thrives on complexity and solution finding

- Strong Microsoft Office skills (MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Word); The candidate is expected to have experience building and working with large data validation files (Pivots, V-Lookups)

- The profile involves effective communication across Clients- facilities globally and hence possessing excellent interpersonal and communication skills in verbal and written English is a must

- A demonstrated ability to write effectively and summarize large amounts of information succinctly and quickly

- A desire to work in an international team environment, often under pressure and with multiple stakeholders