In this role, you will play a pivotal role in providing end-to-end support to the executive members of the Tax team and other stakeholders. You will be responsible to support tax optimization, controversy, audits, anticipate and mitigate potential tax risks, connect different areas of tax and finance teams to foresee potential issues, research, and cross-functional projects for India and South East Asia countries. You will collaborate with tax experts, finance leaders, legal teams and various business units and will be critical to help resolve complex tax positions, support business growth and product launches, manage audit requests, and ensure the timely and accurate resolution of tax audits. You will directly contribute to optimizing efficiency, clearly articulating tax recommendations and establishing policies that minimize the company's tax exposure.
Responsibilities
- Research and deliver strategic support to the regional business partners through complex tax environments in India and South Asia.
- Support complex tax audits, develop and implement proactive defense strategies to achieve practical and timely issue resolutions.
- Collaborate with tax, cross-functional teams, and external advisors on key tax positions, resolve complex tax issues and establish policies and procedures for tax positions and documentation to minimize tax exposure.
- Partner closely with internal cross-functional teams including Business, Legal, Treasury and Accounting to enable the business structures and processes for the new product and business launch and expansions.
- Analyze latest tax and regulatory developments and provide actionable guidance to the stakeholders and enable implementation of the required changes.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, qualified Chartered Accountant or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in tax.
- Experience in international tax with a law firm, accounting firm, or in-house tax department.
- Experience in attorney-level litigation in government, in-house, or at a law firm.
- Experience with corporate, international, or state tax laws and regulations.
- Experience with local tax and administration.
Preferred qualifications:
- 6 years of experience in Corporate Income Tax/International Tax in reputed accounting/law firms or multinational corporations.
- Experience leading tax projects, managing project workflows, and working to achieve overall company business objectives.
- Experience communicating tax technical issues to non-tax professionals.
- Experience performing investigative tax research and tax communication.
- Experience with spreadsheet software, including financial modeling and analyzing data sets.
- Experience in applicable tax matters, tax laws, and tax attributes.