Senior Manager - Indirect Tax - CA

About the department:

The IDT vertical has been supporting clients from all sorts of sectors, and has been doing work around GST, Customs, FTP, and erstwhile laws such as VAT, excise, and service tax. We provide advisory, litigation, compliance, policy advocacy and refund services under indirect tax laws in India and GCC. The leaders and supervisors of this practice carry vast experience from Big4s, law practices and prominent industries. The team deals with the most complex issues that our clients face and challenges themselves with every passing day to be a better version of themselves. Our approach to embracing technology with a human touch to drive our services is what helps us to differentiate ourselves.

What's in it for you?

Our focused professional development plan focuses on mentoring people at every career level to help them reach the next paradigm by identifying and using their strengths to do their best work every day.

We have been consciously taking training sessions every month to ensure that the technical knowledge of the team is refreshed and enhanced which we have witnessed to tremendously help with the advisory and litigation work, making us an idle IDT team to work with.

Vital Skillsets Required:

Operations - 70 to 75% weightage

1. Leading client fronting indirect tax (GST/ Customs/ FTP) engagements (Compliance, Representation, Advisory and Litigation)

Scoping

Technical and quality reviews

On-time delivery

Client liaison

2. Expected to be involved in end-to-end reporting for his/ her client/ region sales, budgets, billing and growth

3. Advise and assist clients in forming indirect tax strategies to cover indirect tax exposure

4. Being a consultant/ advisor on erstwhile indirect tax / GST matters to other company practices across all locations

5. Risk management from an erstwhile indirect tax / GST perspective on all company engagements across all locations

6. Identifying the impact of applied/proposed changes in the indirect tax laws upon client business and accordingly advise them on the way forward.

7. Controlling and managing indirect tax practice of branch locations, if need be, other than that of home location, (if required)

8. Keeping track of and providing insights on various issues related to recent developments in Indirect taxes in India and globally.

9. Can plan and execute various practice development initiatives (incl. standardizing operating practices, and protocols for recurring activities).

10. Expected to assume P&L responsibility for the defined scope of work

Clients' account expansion and business development: 20-25% weightage

1. Aligning with Partners/sales team to generate leads and take it to order book level.

2. Representing the indirect tax team at practice level, wherever required, and identifying solutions to be provided to the common leads identified

3. Managing and maintaining relationships with clients, other BUs and internal stakeholders

Strive to provide new and innovative indirect tax solutions to clients

4. Identifying new opportunities for serving existing clients

5. Targeting and obtaining work from potential clients

6. Development of the Practice and promotion of the company brand name - articles in publications, regular update management for clients, speaker at seminars, etc.

7. Managing current and developing new relationships and alliances covering but not limited to Trade bodies, Nexia network firms, Law Firms, Technology alliances and other similar organizations

8. Achieving assigned number KPIs about:

Lead generation

Sales closure combining IDT technical knowledge and commercial skills

Client mining and account expansion

Product campaigns about IDT products including tax technology products

9. Support in preparation of monthly/ quarterly sheets for leadership from an overall practice perspective. Reporting and maintaining the MIS from practice and sales perspective and updating the leadership on the progress achieved.

Leading people and development: 5-10% weightage

Building and managing a team including recruitment, appraisals, developing training material, providing training to team members, and technically guiding the teams in completing their assigned deliverables

Must have -

1. Minimum 8 years of experience in indirect tax

2. Specialist knowledge of Goods and Services Tax, erstwhile indirect tax laws

3. Experience should be in compliance, representation, advisory and adequate litigation exposure, client mining activities

4. In-depth indirect taxation exposure in a few sectors

5. The candidate should have or handle a portfolio of approximately 2 crores.

6. Experience in independently handling GST implementation projects for clients from the planning phase to execution and delivery

7. Experience in liaising with government officials and building rapport with officials

8. Should have been in a client-facing role

9. Supervisory / leadership experience of at least 5 years

Add on -

1. Chartered Accountant / Lawyer preferred

2. Experience of Customs legislation and Foreign Trade Policy (preferable)

3. Basic work experience in Foreign Trade Agreements (preferable)

4. Experience in advisory and compliance concerning Special Economic Zones (SEZ)

5. Manager in a Big 4 or Partner / Principal in a mid-sized firm (of more than 4 partners) is preferable