Head - Taxation & Treasury

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Job Number #176683 - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Who We Are
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Brief introduction - Role Summary/Purpose

In today’s dynamic financial, regulatory, and economic environment, it is an exciting time to be a part of the Finance team at Colgate. Our highly strategic and innovative team is dedicated to safeguarding value and driving sustainable growth for Colgate Palmolive across this ever-changing landscape.

What role will you play as a member of the Colgate’s Finance team?

The position leads the Tax function for Colgate Palmolive’s subsidiary in India and is responsible for driving compliance with all applicable tax laws by defining the tax roadmap and ensuring the timely submission of accurate documentation. Additionally, this role also ensures the availability of liquidity to meet day-to-day operational needs as well as short and long-term business investment plans. Key challenges include navigating diverse tax structures, managing evolving tax legislation to prevent litigations, and optimizing treasury investments for maximum returns while mitigating risk.

Responsibilities:

You are a functional expert:

• Problem-solver, with strategic thinking and the ability to apply root cause analysis to complex regional tax and treasury challenges.

• Ability to prioritize multiple work assignments, navigate jurisdictional regulatory environments, and meet tight compliance deadlines.
• Define transfer pricing policies, design efficient tax structures, and monitor accurate tax accounting, provisioning, and targeted tax rates.
• Reviewing surplus fund investments, cash flow forecasts, dividend payout simulations, and yield performance against risk parameters.
• Defining risk management strategies and adequately insuring them
• Management of local tax charge and control over local tax accounting including deferred tax accounting.
• Setting processes and controls for tax compliance and ensuring all tax and regulatory requirements are met and no penalties are suffered
• Designing the tax planning and audit defense strategy including transfer pricing strategy in alignment with the Global tax team.
• Indirect tax strategy to optimize tax cost and ensure business simplification for indirect taxes
• Transaction structuring to optimize tax cost and implementation of new tax projects
• Review of tax returns and transfer pricing documentation including audits
• Leading major audit negotiations/settlements, APA’s, MAP etc
• Developing alternative dispute resolution through MAP, Safe Harbor and APA’s
• Review of tax appeal memos and representing before tax authorities for major tax appeals
• Managing the direct and indirect tax litigation in alignment with regional and global tax teams
• Identifying the issues that have material tax consequences and aligning strategy with Global tax and local management
• Managing the relationship with revenue authorities and local advisors.
• Mergers and acquisitions

You connect the dots:

• Compliance and accuracy are essential; you oversee tax documentation to ensure audit accuracy, minimize non-conformances, and maintain consistency across financial reporting cycles.

• In a fast changing environment, you have a very good understanding of commercial process flows and the implications on tax positions

• With a constantly evolving business environment, you identify tax-saving opportunities, evaluate corporate restructuring (M&A) tax implications, and adjust financial strategies to protect the organization from non-compliance and litigation.

You are a collaborator:

• You provide strategic tax oversight, transfer pricing guidance, and financial advisory support.

• Engage with internal executive stakeholders, regional leadership, external tax authorities, bankers, and financial institutions to leverage optimal financial instruments and resolve complex regulatory matters.

You are an innovator:

• With a constantly evolving regulatory and technological landscape, you identify automation and process improvement opportunities to simplify workflows, enhance productivity, and lead change management across the department.

• Explore alternative resolution frameworks (such as Alternative Settlement Resolution and Mutual Agreement Procedures) and review novel, high-yield, low-risk treasury investment instruments to present to the CFO.

Required Qualifications

• Professional Qualification: Chartered Accountant (CA) required.

• Experience: 15+ years of overall experience, with at least 5 years leading a taxation function.
• Strong expertise across tax planning, direct/indirect tax compliance, transfer pricing, tax litigation defense, and audit closure processes.

• Proven leadership in process automation and change management

Preferred Qualifications

• International Tax certifications.

• Working knowledge of the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry and Big 4 consulting firms.
• Willingness and ability to experiment with modern automation tools, digital tax technologies, and advanced treasury management systems.

• Strong facilitation, negotiation, and project management skills.

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