Director - Indirect Tax - Big4

As a Director in our Tax team you'll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations. You will :

Role is in relation to exploring touchpoints between Indirect taxes (more particularly GST law) and technology working as a part of and in collaboration with the IDT team in the firm. This would entail wide exposure and visibility to wide ranging ERP platforms/ tax engines and fair degree of familiarization with indirect tax laws and in respect of tax automation.

More specifically :

- Ability to understand the IDT compliance landscape and ideate how technology can be used, internally (by IDT professionals in the firm) and also externally ( by industry clients) to make the compliance process more effective - simpler, speedier and qualitatively superior

- Appreciate the evolution of GST and Customs law in India, and be able to vision how technology can be used for simplifying indirect tax touchpoints as a part of business process in trade and industry - for trading, manufacturing and service businesses

- Conceptualize possible IT products for indirect tax practitioner - for example, ITC matching, ITC leakage, Expense-ITC bifurcation, inputs/input services/ capital goods ITC bifurcation, Refunds management, Foreign Trade Policy schemes management ( Serve from India Incentive Scheme / Merchandise Exports Incentive Scheme), litigation tracker etc.

- Ideate supply chain solutions to optimize GST /Customs duty cost by standardizing procurement and distribution cycle of various business models

- Collaborate with senior indirect tax professionals to envisage their IT needs - their concerns in managing IDT compliance and work together to configure products/ offerings which may enhance their efficiency and provide solutions to client problems

- Build and mentor a team of IDT-IT professionals

- Train hard core tax technical professionals in the firm in basics of technology which they need for being more effective in their practice area considering the enhanced role of technology in the GST and Customs arena

- Work on specific big ticket assignments/ engagements of IDT more efficiently deliver the same with the aid of technology solutions

- Capable of having a vision of how technology and IT including new frontiers, like RPA, Blockchain, AI and other technological inflexion points can influence and transform the practice of indirect taxes to make it simpler and efficient

Qualifications :

- CA/ICWA/ MBA ( Finance) or wide exposure to use of technology in accounting & tax in Industry / Revenue Service

- Desirable educational qualification: Engineering degree

- Strong Technical Knowledge

- Leadership Qualities

- Effective communication and presentation skills

- Persistent and persuasive