Finance

Assistant Manager - Tax

Job ID: 96910
  • Gurugram


Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.

Your Impact

You will bring experience in managing offshore US tax compliance and reporting functions, with the ability to support and oversee process improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of tax accounting, reporting, and compliance operations.  
Your responsibilities will include preparing and filing multi-state and city-level taxes in the US, such as property tax, annual license renewals, gross receipts tax, excise tax, and rent tax. You will also handle the preparation of state income tax filings, including both combined or consolidated returns and separate state filings. Additionally, you will execute processes for compiling data required for tax return preparation and filing, coordinating with the finance team to gather necessary information. 
Ensuring the timely filing of quarterly estimated payments and year-end extension payments will be a key part of your role, as will monitoring and responding to multi-state and city tax notices promptly. You will prepare defenses, responses, and submissions for audits or examinations conducted by tax authorities, with support from external tax advisors, and collaborate with finance and legal teams to monitor compliance requirements in new states or cities. Furthermore, you will prepare general ledger account reconciliations, process necessary journal entries, and document the processes followed and tasks performed.

Your Growth

You will work with the Corporate Tax Team in our Gurgaon office. The team oversees the preparation of the firm’s corporate tax returns in all the countries where it operates, together with the preparation of the statutory financial statements for the operations in those countries. The team also manages the corporate tax position, including our transfer pricing arrangements, and coordinates the responses to corporate tax audits. This is an internal, non-client facing role to work in the US tax function comprising of 6-8 team members, which is part of Corporate Tax Team. 

Your qualifications and skills

  • Chartered Accountant with 5+ years experience (post-qualification)
  • Accounting and reconciliation experience in an MNC or an accounting firm is desirable - US tax compliance experience is preferred
  • Good verbal and written English communication skills
  • Ability to drive projects successfully
  • Confident and collaborative team player
  • Initiative and desire to excel 
  • Strong accounting and basic tax knowledge
  • Ability to develop relationships and network
  • Attention to detail; tenacious in following up
  • Ability to handle multiple projects
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Job Skill Code - TFAM - Assistant Manager, Tax
Function - Firm Administration
Industry - Financial Services
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