Grant Thornton - Manager - Direct Tax

Roles & Responsibilities:

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

- Finalizing client deliverables in consultation with the Partner/Director/Associate Director.

- Leading and coordinating tax planning and tax risk management assignments, with guidance from the reporting supervisor.

- Handling advisory, litigation and business tax requirements of clients comprising of providing holistic tax solutions to Client tax issues considering domestic tax and international tax. Providing tax risk analysis pro-actively on transactions planned by Clients. Suggesting possible structuring options to meet the desired objectives of the client. Manage all tax compliances relating to a portfolio of Clients.

- Withholding tax advisory

- 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

- Leading the review and modification of key tax processes and systems and identifying opportunities to streamline them

- Managing and maintaining relationship with clients

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

- Initiating and actively participating in client meetings

- Supervising, training and mentoring the team and help in overall growth

- 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

- Supporting practice management initiatives and catering to financial metrics

- Research and assistance in preparation of research papers to formulate the firm's position on direct tax /Transaction tax issues

- Research and assistance in writing technical articles for print and online media

- Research and drafting direct tax thought leadership publications

Desired Profile:

- Post qualification experience in Direct Tax of at least 6-8 years

- Willingness to travel

- Expertise in undertaking Income tax, Company Law and Regulatory compliances.

- Expertise in handling of taxation for expatriates

Skill Set:

- Good knowledge of Income Tax law and other laws such as Companies Act and FEMA.

- 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

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

- Good communication skills including legal/technical drafting

- Good interpersonal skills