Tax Compliance Specialist

Role & responsibilities Provides support in tax specialty areas including direct and indirect tax compliance, tax audits, and tax reporting. Prepares & reviews tax returns, executes processes, monitors effectiveness of SOX/tax controls, reports deviations from standard processes and initiates process improvements. Gathers and analyzes data extracted from financial systems or received from other functions. Performs data accuracy/quality checks to validate tax handling of transactions as per applicable tax legislation. Prepares data, materials and processes for tax computations of direct/indirect tax returns and working papers, including gathering information, reconciling data and analyzing individual transactions considering country specific tax rules. Participates in tax projects and handles issues identified during tax return review and preparation with front-end functions. Provides basic tax consulting. Responsible for preparation of withholding tax return / Corporate Income Tax Return for multiple countries/tax jurisdictions with moderate complexity • Extensive analysis of sub-ledger reports to deduce withholding tax applicability. • Analysis of corporate income tax accounts. • Support on tax audit assignments • Tax compliance, Transfer Pricing, Tax provision, audit and accounting tasks involving new customized approaches • Require knowledge of tax compliance, audits, accounting and tax specific systems/applications & Enterprise Resource Planning applications. • Provide advice on routine tax matters. Job Qualifications • Requires higher education (MBA Finance, CA Inter, ICWA, M.Com) or specialized training/certification, or equivalent combination of education and experience. • Typically minimum of 3 years relevant experience for entry to this level [count 3 years of CA article ship as 1 yr of experience]. • Requires extensive knowledge and skills to complete specialized tasks.