Job Role:
As part of Firm’s indirect tax services team, you will assist entrepreneurs and businesses to –
- understand nuances of indirect taxes to enable them to meet their business goals
- establish controls and checks for transactions encompassing indirect taxes
- meet their compliance obligations
- identify planning opportunities including the tax throughput for the product and tax life cycle
- identify risk areas from indirect tax perspective
This will also involve conceiving as well as providing recommendations to address a wide range of business and practical issues. At senior levels, it would also involve overseeing and managing your team.
Role and Responsibilities:
You will be part of engagements related to indirect taxes (GST / custom duty / excise duty / service tax / sales tax / entertainment tax etc.) involving tax advisory, compliances, structuring, implementations, consulting, advocacy and litigations and foreign trade policy.
The role will help you to develop the skills you need to become a preferred advisor. You will also gain experience across industries and geographies, which will enable you to become a leader in the indirect tax fraternity.
The client related responsibilities would include:
- Understand the transactions and the business as well as client issues – ability to discuss issues, ask relevant questions and gather required information from the client
- Develop rapport with all the concerned levels of client management
- Execution and delivery of the assigned engagement. Respond in a timely manner, display commitment to excellent client service. Provide a timely and high-quality service that exceeds client expectation
- Coordinate with the engagement manager / partner for planning and management of assignments. Update the engagement manager / partner proactively on various engagement related issues
- Network internally within the peer group and other levels in order to gain understanding of issues that may impact issues with your clients
Academic Qualifications:
Chartered Accountant / Cost Accountant / LLB or any other equivalent degree.
Post qualification and/or articleship or internship experience in indirect taxes.
Experience:
Post qualification experience in indirect taxes for more than seven / five years.
Essentials:
- Good command of written, verbal, co-ordination and presentation skills, excellent research skill
- Detail oriented, analytical, organized, team player with strong interpersonal skills
- Self-motivated with great attention to details, project management and organizational skills and demonstrates strong ownership of tasks
- Commitment to on-going self-development, open to challenging projects outside areas of experience or comfort zone
- Ability to cope under pressure and meet deadlines