VAT & Tax Compliance - Senior Manager

Overview

Lead and oversee global VAT/GST, indirect tax, U.S. Sales & Use Tax and corporate tax compliance activities supported from Bangalore, and develop a team of tax professionals.

What you'll do

• Provide leadership and oversight of global VAT/GST, indirect tax, and U.S. Sales & Use Tax compliance activities.
• Ensure timely and accurate preparation, review, and submission of tax returns, statutory filings, and related payments.
• Maintain effective governance over global compliance calendars, proactively managing risks, exceptions, and overdue actions.
• Oversee VAT/GST and use tax calculations, reconciliations, payments, supporting documentation, and alignment to general ledger and transactional data.
• Provide technical leadership on input VAT recovery, output VAT, reverse charge, intercompany and cross-border transactions, and U.S. use tax assessment and compliance, as applicable.
• Partner with Corporate Tax, Finance, Accounts Payable, Procurement, and Financial Controllers to resolve complex indirect and transactional tax matters.
• Maintain a strong control environment, including appropriate review, documentation, evidence retention, and escalation procedures.
• Oversee tax authority queries, audits, and information requests and ensure sustainable remediation of identified issues.
• Monitor relevant tax developments and lead implementation of changes affecting compliance processes.
• Drive standardization, simplification, automation, data quality, and effective management reporting across indirect tax compliance.
• Provide leadership and oversight of corporate tax compliance activities supported by the team.
• Provide oversight and review of Tax Packs and related corporate tax compliance deliverables.
• Review tax-sensitive accounts, corporate tax accruals, provisions, payments, journals, and reconciliations.
• Ensure appropriate oversight of tax-related general ledger balances and supporting reconciliations.
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of documentation supporting corporate tax filings and statutory reporting.
• Maintain strong governance, controls, and documentation across corporate tax processes.
• Lead and develop a high-performing tax compliance team, driving accountability, technical capability, quality, and effective resource management.
• Act as a senior point of contact for tax compliance, building strong partnerships across Corporate Tax, Finance, Controllers, Accounts Payable, Procurement, and other key stakeholders.
• Provide oversight of compliance delivery, risks, controls, and remediation, ensuring timely resolution and appropriate escalation of key issues.
• Drive standardization, simplification, automation, and continuous improvement across end-to-end tax compliance processes.
• Lead tax transformation and technology initiatives to improve efficiency, accuracy, data quality, controls, and scalability.
• Leverage OneSource, Oracle, Alteryx, Power BI, Power Query, Excel, and AI-enabled solutions, where applicable.
• Foster a strong culture of accountability, collaboration, risk awareness, knowledge sharing, and talent development.

What you'll need

• Strong technical knowledge of VAT/GST, indirect tax, U.S. Sales & Use Tax, and corporate tax compliance.
• Proven people leadership with the ability to develop high-performing teams and manage complex global compliance responsibilities.
• Strong governance, risk management, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills, including engagement with senior stakeholders.
• Strong transformation mindset with experience driving process improvement, automation, and technology-enabled solutions.
• Commercially aware, results-oriented, and able to manage competing priorities and critical compliance deadlines.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, or a related discipline.
• 10 - 12 years of relevant experience in VAT/GST, indirect tax, U.S. Sales & Use Tax and/or corporate tax compliance, including significant leadership and people-management responsibilities.
• Significant experience in VAT/GST, indirect tax, U.S. Sales & Use Tax and/or corporate tax compliance, including leadership and management responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing tax or finance professionals in a global or multinational environment.

Nice to have

• Professional accounting or tax qualification such as CA, CPA, ACCA, or equivalent.
• Experience in tax transformation, automation, process improvement, or technology-enabled compliance initiatives.
• Financial services experience.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.