CA required I Indirect Tax I Customs - Manager

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JOB DESCRIPTION: Your job responsibilities will include, -Leading client fronting indirect tax (GST/ Customs/ FTP/SVB) engagements (Compliance, Representation, Advisory and Litigation) -Scoping -Technical and quality reviews -On-time delivery -Client liaison -Expected to be involved in end-to-end reporting for his/ her client/ region sales, budgets, billing and their growth Involved in preparation of monthly/ quarterly sheets for leadership from overall practice perspective. -Keeping track of and providing insights on various issues related to recent developments in Indirect taxes in India and globally -Can plan and execute various practice development initiatives (incl. standardizing operating practices, and protocols for recurring activities) Clients account expansion and business development: 20-25% weightage Aligning with Partners/ sales team to generate leads and take it till order book level. Representing indirect tax team at practice level, wherever required, and identifying solutions to be provided to the common leads identified Managing and maintaining relationship with clients Advise and assist clients in forming indirect tax strategies to cover indirect tax exposure Strive to provide new and innovative indirect tax solutions to clients Identifying new opportunities for serving existing clients Targeting and obtaining work from potential clients Achieving assigned number KPIs pertaining to: Lead generation Sales closure combining IDT technical knowledge and commercial skills Client mining and account expansion Product campaigns in relation to IDT products including tax technology products 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 Review of efficient and effective planning, selection and team management of all resources throughout the year including temporary resource redeployment within team/ with other departments, Building of team morale and motivate people in the team and firm, and retention of existing employees Address issues at emotional / infrastructural level at work being faced by teams, take responsibility for team building and motivation of teams Identifying training needs of teams and assist in skill building where deficiencies identified, ESIRED CANDIDATE PROFILE: Chartered Accountant / Lawyer with 6+ years experience in indirect tax (Customs & GST) Specialist knowledge of Goods and Services Tax, erstwhile indirect tax laws Experience of Customs legislation and Foreign Trade Policy Basic work experience in Foreign Trade Agreements Experience should be in compliance, representation, advisory and adequate litigation exposure Experience in advisory and compliance with respect to Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Experience in independently handling GST implementation projects for clients from planning phase to execution and delivery Experience in liaising with government officials and building rapport with officials Excellent written and spoken communication skills including legal / technical drafting