Associate

Line of Service

Tax

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Operations

Management Level

Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career within Corporate Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their business. You’ll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners. You’ll also help organisations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties, as well as providing advice on tax implications of deals.

Our team helps our clients improve their tax function to control risk and facilitate better decision making. You’ll focus on helping businesses with tax strategy, ensuring tax compliance, increasing post tax profits, and providing application support to achieve the best corporate tax practices.

Role details
Position Associate

Education

− CA
− Any Additional Professional Qualification or International tax
certifications will be an added advantage

Experience 0-2 years post qualification
SBU Corporate & International Tax
Job
Description

The tasks, roles and responsibilities pertaining to the job role of an Associate will include
the following:
 Conducting technical research on tax laws, including domestic and international tax
commentaries, OECD publications, papers, and reading through internal knowledge
management databases.
 Analyzing and interpreting provisions under the Income Tax Act and provisions
pertaining to international tax and dealing with interpretation of tax treaties. Reading
and understanding of allied laws, such as exchange control, etc.
 Advising clients on complex corporate tax matters, such as permanent establishments,
general anti-avoidance rules, place of effective management, significant economic
presence, and double tax treaties.
 Supporting the team on pre/post-acquisition corporate tax advisory work, such as
group tax restructuring, diligences and documentation reviews.
 Supporting the team on key advisory projects like entry strategies, funding options,
cross-border transaction taxation and ETR analysis.
 Preparation of memos, presentations, opinions etc. as per client’s needs and based on
detailed analysis of the issues involved.
 Handling assessment proceedings and supporting the litigation team in appellate
proceedings with CIT(A), DRP, ITAT and other authorities. This includes data analysis,
preparing legal arguments, paper books, submissions, notes to counsel, Interface with
the tax department etc.
 Responsible for supporting clients on ongoing compliances such as income tax returns,
TDS computations and taking support of our delivery center teams and tax technology
tools for execution of such engagements.
 Effective implementation and review of work programs and updating the manager
proactively on various work-related aspects.
 Updating clients on ongoing matters in a prompt and regular basis and keeping track of
industry developments.
 Attending and participating in internal Learning and Education (L&E) sessions.

 Overseeing the work of Analysts and Senior Analysts

Profile
Requirements

● Qualified Chartered Accountant with 0-2 years of relevant work experience or a
Commerce or a relevant field graduate with at least five years of relevant experience.
● Article ship in Big 4 or prior experience in corporate tax will be an added advantage.
● Other prerequisite skills include:
- Demonstrating innovative and critical thinking in managing projects.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills.
- Well-rounded commercial and economic awareness.
- Good interpersonal and networking skills.
- Efficiency in MS office and report writing skills.
- Motivated, creative, and decisive in approach to problem solving.
- Ownership and responsibility of client deliverables

Mandatory skill sets- Direct Tax, Corporate Tax

Preferred skill sets - Direct Tax, Corporate Tax
Year of experience required - 0-1
Qualifications – CA

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Government Clearance Required?

Job Posting End Date