Senior Associate, India tax & Finance

Department India Tax & Finance

Level 3

About your team

India Tax and Finance team is responsible for controllership of India domestic entities for both FIL and Eight Roads and their respective holding companies based in Mauritius. The team is responsible for not only maintaining book-keeping but for other statutory and regulatory compliances as well including taxation,

SEZ, exchange control and other applicable compliances.

Teams activity includes:

• Controllership - Month close activities, Balance Sheet schedules , preparation of year end financial statements and statutory audit, cross functional projects
• Direct and Indirect taxation compliances - Corporate tax, transfer pricing, Goods and Service tax, litigation management
• Treasury - Liquidity Management, Cash Repatriation , Exchange control compliances, as applicable and payments to vendors and employees
• Regulatory Compliances - SEZ reporting , Indian Companies House amongst others

• Tax Support CoE - Managing group tax compliances, VAT return of overseas entities, Country by Country Reporting including Master File, supporting group tax team in Group year end, financial data assimilation for filing tax return across all regions

About your role
The role will be mainly responsible for handling taxation for India and overseas entities and supporting team in books close and related statutory audit activities. The incumbent would report to Manager - India Tax and Finance.

The key activities involved, amongst others, consist of the below:

• Month end scrutiny of ledgers, booking journals reclassification entries and updation of balance sheet reconciliations
• Provide support in ongoing regulatory and internal audit requirements
• Engage actively in risk management and internal controls activities
• Provide support in year-end statutory audit
• Tax accounting and preparation of tax account reconciliation
• Providing financial data to tax team during tax audits and assessment
• Responsibility of managing GST/VAT compliances for India/Overseas.
• Preparation of draft tax provision computations in compliance with local tax and GAAP rules
• Computation and deposition of advance tax payment, wherever applicable
• Support in preparation of draft tax return (direct and indirect tax)
• Support in reporting and analysis for tax returns (direct and indirect tax)
• Ensuring SLAs are being met which were predefined in transition sign off document.
• Support in Automation of tax support processes by working with tech support teams
• Support in automation projects in accounting and tax areas, perform testing and liaising with various FunctionalTechnology teams for the project requirements
• Awareness of evolving accounting, regulatory and tax regulations standards
• Ability to handle pressure and support other team members, wherever required

About you

Below are the experience and Qualifications Required for this role

• CA Inter B.Com with 1-3 years of industry experience in accounting, taxation, process automation
• Sound accounting and taxation knowledge, detail oriented and good with numbers
• Attitude to learn.
• Good communication (oral and verbal)
• Good knowledge of MS office
• Working Knowledge of Oracle and HFM/Smartview
• Ability to manage tight deadlines and work pressure at times
• Team player and automation mindset
• Knowledge of TRCS, automation tools, like Power BI, Power Automate would be added advantage.