Key Responsibilities
1. Direct Tax (DT)
- Manage direct tax compliance, including advance tax calculations, tax payments, and preparation and filing of income tax returns.
- Ensure compliance with TDS/TCS provisions, including timely deductions, deposits, return filings, and reconciliation.
- Handle income tax assessments, notices, scrutiny cases, and related submissions.
- Review tax computations, provisions, reconciliations, and financial statement disclosures.
- Support tax planning initiatives to optimize the organization's tax position while ensuring compliance with applicable laws.
- Monitor changes in income tax regulations and assess their impact on business operations.
2. Indirect Tax (IDT)
- Manage GST compliance, including GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, annual returns, and other applicable GST filings.
- Review GST reconciliations between books of accounts, GST returns, e-invoices, and e-way bills.
- Monitor input tax credit (ITC) eligibility, reconciliations, reversals, and credit utilization.
- Ensure compliance with GST provisions relating to registrations, invoicing, credit notes, debit notes, and related-party transactions.
- Handle GST notices, departmental queries, assessments, investigations, and refund applications.
- Coordinate with business, procurement, sales, and finance teams to resolve GST-related issues.
- Identify opportunities to improve indirect tax compliance and minimize tax exposure.
3. Tax Audit & Statutory Audit
- Coordinate tax audits under applicable provisions of the Income-tax Act and support the preparation of tax audit reports.
- Liaise with internal auditors, statutory auditors, tax consultants, and external audit teams.
- Prepare audit schedules, reconciliations, supporting documents,
and tax-related working papers.
- Ensure timely closure of audit observations and implementation of corrective actions.
- Review tax provisions, contingent liabilities, reconciliations, and disclosures for financial reporting.
- Maintain proper documentation and audit trails for all tax-related transactions.
4. Tax Litigation & Assessments
- Manage direct and indirect tax litigation, including income tax and GST notices, show-cause notices, demands, and appeals.
- Prepare and review responses to notices, submissions, supporting documents, and appeal papers.
- Coordinate with external tax consultants, advocates, and chartered accountants for assessments, hearings, and appellate proceedings.
- Track litigation status, deadlines, disputed tax demands, interest, penalties, and associated financial exposure.
- Maintain a centralized litigation tracker and provide periodic updates to senior management.
- Evaluate tax risks and recommend appropriate corrective actions, representations, and dispute-resolution strategies.
5. MIS, Reporting & Stakeholder Management
- Prepare periodic tax compliance reports, litigation updates, and tax-risk assessments for management.
- Maintain a compliance calendar to ensure timely completion of tax payments, returns, assessments, and audit requirements.
- Reconcile tax balances with the general ledger and financial records.
- Coordinate with finance, accounts, legal, internal audit, and business teams to resolve tax-related matters.
- Develop and strengthen internal controls, standard operating procedures, and documentation processes.
- Monitor amendments in tax laws and communicate relevant updates to stakeholders.
Qualifications & Experience
- Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) preferred; candidates with CA Inter or other relevant qualifications may be considered based on experience.
- 58 years of relevant experience in taxation, preferably in a corporate or manufacturing/FMCG environment.
- Strong hands-on experience in Direct Tax, GST, tax audits, assessments, and litigation.
- Experience working with tax consultants, auditors, and tax authorities.
- Proficiency in MS Excel, ERP/accounting systems, and tax compliance portals.
Key Competencies
- Strong knowledge of Direct Tax and GST laws.
- Analytical, reconciliation, and problem-solving skills.
- Good understanding of tax assessments, litigation, and regulatory compliance.
- Solid documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and work independently.
- High attention to detail, integrity, and accountability.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Timely and accurate filing of tax returns and payment of statutory dues.
- Accuracy of tax computations, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
- Timely closure of audit observations and tax notices.
- Effective management of litigation deadlines and tax disputes.
- Reduction of tax exposure, interest, penalties, and compliance risks.
- Timely submission of tax MIS and management reports.
📌 Taxation -Manager (Gurugram)
🏢 VLCC
📍 Gurugram