Manager - Taxation - Pharma

Tax Manager

Our client, a leading pharmaceutical company, is looking to engage with a Taxation Manager who'll be responsible for managing Indirect Tax including VAT / CST litigations.

Key Responsibilities:

- Facilitate and manage the preparation and review of tax returns and quarterly / yearly advance tax calculations and tax provisions based on financial projections. -Ensure accurate and timely compliances with all statutory tax and transfer pricing filings including monthly / quarterly withholding tax payments and filings.

- Lead and manage tax and transfer pricing audits. Provide support in quarterly financial reviews and annual statutory audits.

- Monitor and update tax assessments and litigation status on a regular basis.

- Ensure timely accounting of tax entries and reconcile the tax balances as per books with the tax returns and tax orders on a periodic basis.

- Maintain effective control procedures over all aspects of the tax process. Find and implement opportunities for process improvements in the existing tax procedures.

- Manage contracted resources, which support in accounting and collation of details / documents required for accurate tax compliances.

- Provide internal tax advisory services and support on business operation matters.

- Partnering with country, regional, and global finance, tax, legal, business and operations teams in regular internal reporting and carrying out various strategic or operational initiatives requiring tax involvement.

- Closely work with external advisors and outsourced compliance partners in representation and liaising with tax authorities on direct tax assessments, investigations, and litigation matters.

- Monitor legislative and regulatory tax law developments, communicate the effects of these developments to management and larger finance team and support in implementing the changes inter-alia in the ERP systems as may be required.

Organizational relationships:

As a part of its job responsibilities, the position will regularly interact with:

- Peers in larger finance functions, legal and compliance teams, offshore transaction processing colleagues, global tax and treasury team, various business teams and other enabling functions (Internal relationships)

- Tax and transfer pricing advisors, tax and statutory auditors, trade vendors and customers and tax authorities (External relationships)

Location: Full time Onsite in Mumbai BKC for a duration of 12 months