Key Duties and Responsibilities

Operational Leadership

Lead the day-to-day Fuel Tax operations ensuring timely completion of tax filings, tax payments, reconciliations, and compliance activities.
Manage a team of Analysts and Senior Analysts by assigning workloads, monitoring productivity, and ensuring adherence to service level agreements (SLAs).
Review key tax filings, reconciliations, journal entries, and exception reports before submission.
Ensure all filing deadlines are consistently achieved with zero compliance penalties.

Tax Compliance & Reporting

Oversee preparation, review, filing, and payment of Federal Excise Fuel Tax and State Motor Fuel Tax returns.
Ensure accurate reconciliation of Fuel Tax General Ledger accounts and timely resolution of reconciling items.
Review monthly, quarterly, and annual tax reporting deliverables.
Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local fuel tax regulations.

Internal Controls (SOX)

Own Fuel Tax SOX controls and ensure effective execution of all control activities.
Review control evidence, documentation,



and testing performed by the team.
Coordinate with Internal Audit and External Audit teams.
Ensure timely remediation of audit findings and control deficiencies.
Drive continuous improvement of the internal control setting.

Audit Management

Lead responses to federal and state fuel tax audits.
Coordinate documentation requests from taxing authorities.
Review audit workpapers prepared by the team.
Partner with Tax Leadership on audit strategy and issue resolution.
Ensure complete audit readiness through proper documentation and record retention.

Process Improvement

Identify opportunities to automate manual processes.
Partner with IT, Business Systems, and vendors (e.g., Avalara Excise) to improve system functionality.
Lead implementation of process improvement initiatives using Lean methodologies.
Reduce manual effort while improving quality and compliance.
Standardize processes across jurisd

📌 Associate Manager- Fuel Tax (Bengaluru)
🏢 Eleven
📍 Bengaluru