About the Role

We are looking for a qualified Chartered Accountant to lead direct and indirect taxation for our group entities, spanning our fintech, NBFC, and allied businesses. The role owns end-to-end tax compliance, assessments, and advisory across multiple entities and business lines, and works closely with finance, business, and external stakeholders to ensure the group remains fully compliant while optimizing its overall tax position.

Roles & Responsibilities

- Direct Tax Compliance: Own end-to-end compliance for corporate tax, direct and indirect tax across group entities, including computation, return filing, and reconciliation with books of accounts.
- Indirect Tax Compliance: Manage GST compliance across multiple registrations and business lines, including return filing, input tax credit reconciliation, e-invoicing, and periodic audits under GST law.
- Assessments & Litigation: Independently manage tax assessments, scrutiny proceedings, and departmental inquiries for both direct and indirect tax; coordinate with external counsel on litigation strategy and represent the company before tax authorities where required.
- Transaction Structuring & Transfer Pricing: Review and structure inter-company transactions, service arrangements, and cross-entity charges from a tax perspective, ensuring alignment with transfer pricing requirements and documentation.
- Tax Advisory: Assess the tax implications of new products, revenue models, and business arrangements at the design stage, and provide practical, business-aligned tax advisory to internal stakeholders.
- Regulatory Tracking & Interpretation: Track tax-related regulatory changes across direct tax, GST, and sector-specific guidelines,



and translate them into actionable updates to internal processes, systems, and documentation.
- Audit Coordination: Partner with statutory and internal auditors on tax positions, provisions, and disclosures; ensure timely closure of tax-related audit queries and observations.
- Tax Controls & Documentation: Maintain a strong tax control environment, including SOPs, reconciliations, and documentation standards, to minimize exposure and ensure audit readiness at all times.
- Financial Reporting Support: Own tax provisioning, deferred tax computations, and related disclosures for financial statements prepared under IndAS.
- Team & Stakeholder Management: Manage tax team operation, and coordinate effectively with external tax consultants, legal advisors, and government authorities.

Qualifications / Requirements

- Qualification: Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) with a minimum of 46 years of post-qualification experience, with substantial exposure to direct and indirect taxation in a BFSI/NBFC or financial services environment.
- Technical Expertise: Strong working knowledge of the Income Tax Act, GST law, and transfer pricing regulations, along with hands-on experience managing tax assessments and litigation.
- Domain Exposure: Experience handling taxation across multiple legal entities or business lines, including inter-company arrangements and related compliance.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency with tax and ERP systems, solid working knowledge of MS Excel, and comfort working with high transaction volumes and large data sets.
- Other Qualitative Skills: Excellent communication skills, sound judgment in dealing with tax authorities and consultants, and the ability to manage priorities under timelines.

📌 Manager / Senior Manager - Taxation (Kolkata)
🏢 Mpokket Financial Services
📍 Kolkata