Bhuta Shah & Co LLP - Chartered Accountant

Job Description:

- Leading a team comprising of qualified chartered accountants and handling a bouquet of corporate clients

- Finalizing client deliverables in consultation with the Partner

- Leading and coordinating tax planning and tax risk management assignments, with guidance from the reporting supervisor. This would involve handling advisory, litigation and business tax requirements of clients, comprising of:

- Advisory on inbound and outbound investments transactions from tax and regulatory perspective

- Advisory and execution of the investments as well as M&A transactions, group restructuring exercises etc.

- Providing holistic tax, international tax and regulatory solutions to client on issues raised by clients

- Working on due diligence assignments

 - Suggesting possible structuring options to meet the desired objectives of the client

- Manage all tax and regulatory compliances relating to a transaction

- Advising on permanent establishment, withholding tax, MLI, GAAR, etc.

- Reviewing key corporate tax returns and vetting of tax positions

- Overseeing litigation matters and attending to notices from the Tax Department

- Ensuring that business tax requirements are met

- Working on preparation of alerts and other thought leadership initiatives taken by the partners and managers

- Identifying new opportunities for serving existing clients, deciding the scope and pricing

- Initiating and actively participating in business development and client meetings

- Actively working with cross-functional teams to provide holistic tax solutions to clients

- Ensuring that projects are completed efficiently within the budgeted time and cost

Eligibility criteria:

- A strong passion and interest for tax and regulatory aspects.

- 1-5 years experience in Income tax advisory

- Litigation and compliance

 - Assignments involving significant technical research

- Strong Project Management skills

- Knowledge on interpretation of double tax avoidance agreements

- Working knowledge of Transfer Pricing principles

- Experience in/exposure to M&A transactions and FEMA will be an added advantage

- Good communication skills including legal/technical drafting