EY - Director/National Lead - Taxation - CA

As a National Lead, you would be responsible for overall growth, efficiency and quality of Tax Delivery Your role would involve working with teams ensuring that high quality service is delivered to clients by teams in different regions. Towards this, you would have the following responsibilities :

- Continuously improve the framework for Tax delivery across locations

- Leading and overseeing the teams which deliver the Tax engagements regionally

- Co-ordinating with various specialist teams within the Practice to build the team design / roles and deliver outcomes to client

- Ensuring streamlined operating tax processes, building best practices, implementing best in class delivery, leveraging standard processes and identifying need for and infusing technology/ automation where required. All these would be focused on engagement margin and quality improvisation

- Set internal KPIs for each of the teams, monitor progress and action to achieve

- Organizing and engaging in discussions/ meetings with the teams and clients (at higher levels)

- Resolving issues and concerns in a timely manner

- Leveraging EY experience to ensure best practices are implemented while operating the tax function

- Taking part in strategic and tactical portions of service delivery

- Growing the delivery team in capabilities and delivery capacity to cater to range of clients

Skills and attributes for success :

The job requires a constant focus on improvisation, perseverance to succeed in building high performing tax functions across locations. The role also requires the following attributes :

- Large project delivery

- Strong knowledge of tax and finance domain

- Client management skills

- People interaction

- Team player

- Experience in data management, process design and implementation

- Highly adaptive

- Resourceful and hands-on with new initiatives

- Proficiency with common ERPs, eg. SAP, Oracle, Tally

To qualify for the role you must have :

- A qualified Chartered Accountant

- 15+ years of post-qualification tax experience in both Consulting and Industry with specialization in tax (preferably exposure across direct tax, indirect tax and transfer pricing)