Associate Director - Indirect Tax - Big 4 - CA

Roles and Responsibilities

- Responsible for building and developing the indirect tax practice

- Identify the new clients (independently or with the help of seniors or other teams).

- Identifying the new opportunities with the existing clients (in view of the new developments in the field of Indirect taxes or developments at client's end)

- Maintain strong client relationships and leverage the same for cross selling

- Putting conscious efforts towards networking within the same service line and with other service lines

- Understand various services offered by different service lines in the organization

- Cross selling and generating new clients for the firm

- Understand the client's requirements and seek the relevant facts to identify the solution and service offering

- Design and plan the service offerings for client that can meet his requirement, outline the detailed scope of work and scope limitations, discuss the commercials with the Partner

- Effective communication of service offerings / proposal to the client and ensuring to convert the lead into an assignment

- Ensuring appropriate risk processes are completed before initiating the assignment / project as per the firm's Risk guidelines and all the necessary approvals are obtained

- Plan and management the execution of the assignment with right resources; ensuring the quality of deliverables and meeting the timelines set

- Provide expert advise to clients on Indirect tax law and regulations with industry insights (if possible) and practical approach

- Attempt to provide the value addition while undertaking the assignment; developing innovative solutions for clients

- Managing pan India compliance and advisory services

- Representing clients before the tax authorities / appellate authorities in relation to audits / assessments / litigation matters

- Provide guidance and coach the team members while executing the assignment / project

- Coaching / mentor the team members on various concepts of Indirect tax; ensure on the job learning

- Ensure nominating the team members for the training (initiatives taken at firm level); ensure attendance of the team members for the regular internal and external training

- Understanding the career aspirations of team members and discuss the path towards achieving the same

- Manage team developments and performance

- Encourage innovation / best practices in team

- Provide regular feedback to team members on their performance

Job Specifications :

Qualifications

Qualified CA

Skills

- Strong analytical ability

- Excellent communication and presentation skills

- Client relationship management

- Team player

- Experience in consulting would be an added advantage

- Ability to manage dynamic teams

- Exposure to all areas of Indirect Taxation

- Experience in both compliance and advisory