Tax Compliance & 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 and withholding 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.
• Responsible for preparation of complex tax returns for multiple countries/tax jurisdictions, audit and accounting assignments are diverse and are tax technical and/or business oriented.
• Possesses specialized tax skills to manage compliance, audit, projects & accounting tasks.

• Post Graduation, CA/ CMA, Graduations & CA(Intermediate)/CMA (Intermediate).
• Minimum 3-5 years’ of experience in Direct Tax Compliance and Reporting (Direct Taxes- CIT and Withholding taxes), knowledge of Singapore taxes is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of finance and accounting
• Stakeholder management and analytical skills