Sr Manager / Manager - Taxation

Company Description

Launched in 2007 by Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar, ixigo is a technology company focused on empowering Indian travelers to plan, book and manage their trips across rail, air, buses and hotels. ixigo assists travelers in making smarter travel decisions by leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science-led innovations on ixigo’s OTA platforms, including websites and mobile applications.

ConfirmTkt and AbhiBus became a part of ixigo in 2021. ixigo is headquartered in Gurugram with offices in Bangalore (ConfirmTkt) and Hyderabad (AbhiBus). The ixigo, ConfirmTkt and AbhiBus apps allow travellers to book train tickets, flight tickets, bus tickets, hotels, cabs and provide travel utility tools and services developed using in-house proprietary algorithms and crowd- sourced information. In 2022, as per data.ai, ixigo was featured in the Top 10 most downloaded travel apps worldwide.

The candidate is responsible for overseeing and managing the organization's tax strategy, compliance, planning, risk management, and reporting. The role ensures adherence to Indian tax laws and international regulations (where applicable), optimizes tax efficiency, and supports business initiatives through proactive tax advice. This leader liaises with tax authorities and ensures transparent and timely reporting to the board and regulatory bodies. This person is also responsible for liaising with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance objectives are met.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and manage the preparation and review of the company's Income tax and GST returns and the accurate, timely filing of all tax forms.
• Ensure the accurate, timely filing of consolidated state, and local income tax returns and other business-related filings.
• Find and implement opportunities for process improvement in company tax procedures.
• Develop and implement strategic tax planning for all necessary Corporate and state taxes.
• Manage tax team members as they prepare components of the company's income tax return and other tax documents.
• Plan for and develop the overall return calendar and coordinate timing and inputs with the tax team.
• Maintain effective control procedures over all aspects of the tax process.
• Manage and facilitate income tax audits: preparing responses, creating schedules, etc.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory tax law developments, communicate their effects proactively to management and the other stakeholders, and create strategies to capitalize on changes to taxation legislation.
• Provide support with various internal audits, statutory audits, and special tax-related projects.
• Review tax returns and quarterly/yearly tax projections.
• Lead, manage and mentor tax team members to greater levels of effectiveness and engagement.
• Preparation of tax computation every quarter for audit purposes
• Leading the entire Tax audit and getting it closed, and proactively seeking and collating information from the team for the timely completion of the audit.
• Liaison with business and other functions to evaluate the compliance impact of any new transaction and communicate the impact, if any, to all stakeholders to ensure good governance.
• Review of various business contracts and responding it along with appropriate clauses.

Qualifications

• Extensive individual/corporate/partnership tax knowledge and working experience in the e-commerce industry.
• Strong accounting, analytical, and research skills.
• Strong knowledge of Indian direct and indirect tax laws, compliance, and procedures for Companies.
• Strong experience with various tax operations and ability to drive process improvements.
• Strong ability to utilize project management and accounting best practices to organize and prioritize tasks and the tasks of other tax team members.
• Ability to work well independently as well as the ability to work well with stakeholders and communicate the benefits of tax initiatives.
• We are looking for a candidate with 6+ years of experience as a tax manager. Preferred candidates must have a Chartered Accountant (CA) or equivalent professional qualification..
• Experience in handling tax for a listed Company is preferred.