AMEI Tax Manager

Overview

Provide sound professional tax advice to management and run the regional tax function in alignment with the Air Liquide Group, the AMEI Tax COE and Regional Tax specialists.

What you'll do

• Provide and manage commercial and technical tax advice to stakeholders, ensuring consistent and effective tax risk management.
• Support investment papers with tax expertise as required.
• Collaborate with the Air Liquide Group tax team and the AMEI Tax COE on cross-regional tax issues.
• Maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders across functions and within the company.
• Build an effective tax strategy to optimize the company's tax position.
• Work on tax efficiency projects and monitor changes in direct and indirect tax legislation, policy, and judicial precedents to assess the impact on the organization.
• Identify tax risks and opportunities related to the existing business and new projects.
• Prepare tax planning and estimates, and perform complex tax research.
• Oversee tax accounting, compliance, and audits to ensure regulatory adherence.
• Manage tax audits and tax enquiries.
• Draft responses and submissions for tax notices, department inquiries, and tax proceedings.
• Work closely with external tax consultants, legal counsel, and auditors to develop strategies for tax litigation.
• Review and support transfer pricing documentation to ensure compliance with tax regulation in all jurisdictions.
• Oversee domestic and international transfer pricing documentation, intercompany transactions, and local file preparations.
• Lead tax transformation initiatives, including the transfer of transactional tax activities to Finance GBS and optimizing tax-related processes, including digitalization.
• Oversee the timely preparation and filing of corporate income tax returns, transfer pricing compliance, and other annual returns.
• Prepare tax provisions, reconciliations, and tax notes for reporting or annual financial statements.
• Provide support for statutory audits.
• Manage direct tax audits, assessments, and inquiries initiated by tax authorities.
• Manage withholding tax (TDS/WHT) compliance, calculations, reconciliations, and filings.

What you'll need

• Bachelor degree in taxation related profession.
• 7+ years experience in managing taxation related matters.
• Experience in managing tax audits and queries from initiation to litigation.
• Good knowledge of Direct tax laws.
• Solid foundation of knowledge across core areas of tax management.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong decision making competence.
• Good written and verbal communication skills combined with a service oriented manner.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• To assist and guide senior management in taxation topics.
• Undertake a variety of assignments which have clear and specified objectives, requiring knowledge of principles and techniques commonly employed.
• Coordinate and complete various tax returns by required deadlines.

Nice to have

• Ideally experience gained from a recognized large to mid size accounting or tax legal firm.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.