About the Role The candidate will be responsible for managing the entire end-to-end tax function, covering Direct Tax, Indirect Tax,Transfer Pricing and International Tax. Additionally, the role will encompass global tax compliance across all jurisdictions where the Company operates. The scope and complexity of global tax requirements are expected to increase with the Company and ongoing expansion into international markets.

Key Responsibilities

1. Tax Litigation and submissions

- Own replies to GST notices/show-cause notices, departmental intimations, and appeals across jurisdictions, including reconciliation of demands against GSTR-1/3B/9/9C and the underlying ledgers.
- Manage direct tax proceedings end to end — verification notices, scrutiny assessments, and responses on TDS and foreign remittance compliance.
- Build and maintain a litigation tracker across GST, income tax and any other forums, with clear ownership of deadlines — no notice should be filed on, or past, its due date.
- Brief and instruct external consultants on litigation strategy; do not simply forward notices to advisors and relay their drafts unreviewed.

2. International Tax and Transfer Pricing

- Own the transfer pricing position between the Indian parent and its subsidiaries, including benchmarking on the BSS arrangement and any new intercompany arrangements.
- Assess permanent establishment/POEM exposure arising from cross-border activity — personnel, events, or revenue arrangements that touch both jurisdictions — and recommend structures that manage it.
- Prepare and review Form 3CEB, the annual TP study, and intercompany agreements.
- Coordinate with overseas tax consultants and auditors to ensure timely tax filings and compliance for global subsidiaries in accordance with the applicable tax laws and regulations of respective jurisdictions.
- Evaluate the tax consequences of new revenue models and corporate structuring (e.g., moving a product line or a new go-to-market motion between entities) before the business commits to a structure, not after.

3. Indirect Tax (GST)

- Ensure GST compliance across all state registrations — returns,



reconciliations, ITC eligibility, GST Refund applications,
- Input Service Distributor and place-of-supply determination for both domestic and cross-border transactions.
- Advise the business on GST treatment of new and emerging revenue streams, including international and digital services, OIDAR classification, and export-of-service qualification.
- Own Customs Compliances and updated with EDF Compliance as applicable from October 2026

4. Direct Tax and Compliance

- Oversee the direct tax compliance calendar — advance tax, TDS/TCS, tax audit (Form 3CD), APR filing and corporate return filings — for all group entities.
- Track and manage carried-forward losses and unabsorbed depreciation, including the impact of any change in shareholding on eligibility to carry them forward, and MAT applicability.
- Support statutory audit on all tax-related representations, provisions, and contingent liability disclosures, including for group entities audited under a special-purpose framework and tax audit.
- Guide on withholding tax determinations with respect to non-resident vendors.

5. Tax Planning and Business Partnering

- Partner with Finance and business leadership on tax-efficient structuring of recent revenue lines, cross-border arrangements, and entity structures — balancing tax efficiency against commercial and regulatory risk.
- Translate tax exposure into business terms for leadership and the Board — quantified, prioritised, and actionable, not just technically correct.

- Automation and Process

- Identify and build (or direct the build of) automation for recurring tax processes — notice tracking, reconciliation of returns against books, workflows, and litigation documentation.




- Bring working knowledge of how AI tools can be applied safely to tax work while maintaining data confidentiality and accuracy controls.

7. Team Leadership & Stakeholder Management

- Lead and develop the tax team; set review standards so that every filing is checked for internal consistency and arithmetic accuracy before it goes out the door.
- Manage relationships with statutory auditors, tax consultants (Big 4 and litigation counsel/consultants), and revenue authorities as the primary point of contact on tax matters.

Qualifications and Experience

Must-have

- Chartered Accountant, with 4-8 years of post-qualification experience concentrated in direct tax, indirect tax (GST), and international tax/transfer pricing. Working exposure of US, Singapore and UAE tax is an added advantage.
- Demonstrated, hands-on experience drafting and filing responses to tax notices and representing the organisation in assessment or appellate proceedings — not only reviewing advisor drafts.
- Working knowledge of cross-border structuring, DTAA application, withholding tax compliance and transfer pricing documentation.
- Experience managing Big 4 or equivalent external advisors, and statutory auditors, as a client-side owner of the relationship — not purely a liaison.
- People management experience, having led a team of at least 2–3 direct or indirect reports.

Strongly preferred

- Exposure to US tax matters — Form 1120/1120-F, Form 5472, state nexus questions — gained either directly or through close coordination with US counsel/CPA and UAE taxation matters.
- Experience in a multi-state, services-led or ed-tech/SaaS business with an active Tax litigation portfolio.
- Comfort using AI tools
- Prior experience in a start-up or high-growth environment, comfortable operating without a large in-house team and building process rather than inheriting one.
- Working experience of SAP and other ERP’s & tax related tools.
- Possess the quality of team leader and a valuable initiator wailing to accept challenges.
- Candidate from Edtech will be given priority.

📌 Manager/ Senior Manager-Tax (Gurugram)
🏢 Cuemath
📍 Gurugram