Tax Compliance and Planning Associate

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Provides support in tax specialty areas including direct and indirect tax compliance, tax audits, and tax reporting. Prepares & reviews tax returns, executes processes, monitors effectiveness of SOX/tax controls, reports deviations from standard processes and initiates process improvements. Gathers and analyzes data extracted from financial systems or received from other functions. Performs data accuracy/quality checks to validate tax handling of transactions as per applicable tax legislation. Prepares data, materials and processes for tax computations of direct/indirect tax returns and working papers, including gathering information, reconciling data and analyzing individual transactions considering country specific tax rules. Participates in tax projects and handles issues identified during tax return review and preparation with front-end functions. Provides basic tax consulting.

* Responsible for review/preparation of tax return for multiple countries/tax jurisdictions with moderate complexity
* Support on tax audit assignments
* Tax compliance, audit and accounting tasks involve analysis and new customized approaches
* Require expert knowledge of tax compliance, audits, accounting and tax specific systems/applications & Enterprise Resource Planning applications.
* Provide advice on routine tax matters.

CA/CMA: -  1-2 Years of experience

CA(Inter)/CMA (Inter)/MBA: -  3 to 5 years of experience

• Effective communication skills
• Strong cross function coordination
• Independent decision-making Skills
• Flexibility to work