Manager Tax

Job Description

*Roles and Responsibility Processes
• The role involves direct tax and transfer pricing compliance for the Bank and Indian subsidiaries, including assessment and appeals; interacting with the tax authorities, statutory auditors, transfer pricing auditors, appellate authorities, senior tax counsels. The candidate will work with and support other senior members of the tax team.
• The nature of the role involves specialist knowledge of tax, technical and analytical skills for representation before tax authorities, interaction with multiple stakeholders including external parties like the auditors and tax/appellate authorities. The candidate will support the other senior members of the tax team and the Key activities are as follows:
• Tax compliances for Indian entities involving finalisation of tax provision, advance tax computation and payments, filing of income-tax returns, tax audit report, transfer pricing reports, FATCA/ CRS returns etc. in line with the extant tax laws and statutory timelines.
• Tax accounting including Group reporting and deferred tax accounting.
• Assist in assessment proceedings - direct tax and transfer pricing and, in appellate proceedings before the Commissioner Appeals and Tribunal
• Support in advance pricing agreement (APA) and mutual agreement procedures (MAP) proceedings.
• Assisting in providing tax advisory support and guidance to business teams and other internal teams
• Providing tax advisory support on withholding tax queries and withholding tax compliance
• Providing tax advisory support on payroll taxation queries
• Drafting and filing of responses to notices received from tax department
Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
• GFS Tax CoE team members
• Country Finance, Business Finance and other relevant internal stakeholders for direct tax work
• Statutory and Tax auditors
• Tax Council and revenue authorities
Our Ideal Candidate
• Qualified Chartered Accountant with at least 9-10 years post qualification experience and in-depth knowledge of direct tax laws, transfer pricing and tax accounting in financial services sector.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• In-depth knowledge of direct tax laws, transfer pricing and tax accounting.
• Experience in dealing with revenue officers and appellate authorities at different levels to ensure smooth liaison with the revenue department on the strength of excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in dealing with auditors for various tax compliances including deferred tax matters.
• Keeping abreast with latest developments in tax and transfer pricing laws and tax accounting.
About Standard Chartered Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge, and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If youre looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we cant wait to see the talents you can bring us. Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, youll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:
• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
• In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial, and social wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual, and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role youve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
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Keyskills :
audit reportincome taxadvance taxdirect tax