Assistant Manager – Indirect Taxation

Finac; Jabalpur; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Finac in Jabalpur, India seeks an Assistant Manager in the Indirect Tax team to build strong client relationships and drive GST compliance engagements. You will lead a team of Tax Associates and ensure timely filing, reviews, and advisory support across multiple client engagements.

The role requires CA qualification with 2–5 years of indirect tax experience, strong communication, and the ability to work in a hybrid setup with travel to client locations as needed.

Qualifications

• CA with 2-5 years experience in indirect taxation.
• Experience leading a team of 3-4 Tax Associates.
• GST/compliance knowledge and strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to GST compliance timelines and client deadlines.
• Provide GST services to clients in collaboration with tax teams.
• Carry out GST incidence reviews and audits as part of engagements.
• Prepare and file GST returns and refunds processing.
• Research GST issues and render advisory services to clients.

Skills

Team player

Effective communication

People’s person

Persistent and persuasive

Education

Chartered Accountant (CA)

Job description

Location: Jabalpur
Experience: Minimum 2-3 years
Qualification: Chartered Accountant (CA)
Team Management: Leading a team of 3-4 Tax Associates
Shift: Day Shift

Your Work Profile

As Assistant Manager in our Indirect Tax team you’ll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations. Your role will include:

• Adhering to clients’ GST compliance timelines as per statute (assessments, filing of returns, etc.)
• Provide GST services to a range of clients working closely with multidisciplinary tax teams.
• Carrying out comprehensive GST incidence reviews for the clients.
• Perform GST reviews as part of Internal Audit engagements
• Assist internal and external contacts on GST related queries.
• Coordination with the department for obtaining approvals, registrations, etc.
• Helping with audits or investigation by the tax authorities
• Complete identified number of GST returns on a timely basis.
• Preparation, filing and processing of refunds
• Address all queries raised in respect of GST returns submitted and liaise with line Managers accordingly.
• Assisting in the implementation of recommendations.
• Perform GST audits
• Extensive research on various critical aspects of GST Laws.
• Benchmarking against industry preferred practice to identify new ways of helping to reduce GST incidence and capturing permanent cash flow benefits
• Research technical issues
• Rendering business advisory services to clients under GST Laws
• Participate in planning, developing and implementing GST strategies to optimize tax incidence
• Dealing with technical enquiries relating to GST

Desired qualifications

• CA with 2-5 year Experience in Indirect Taxation
• Team player
• Effective communication and presentation skills
• People’s person
• Persistent and persuasive

Location and way of working

• Base location: Jabalpur/Jaipur/Ahmedabad
• This profile involves frequent travelling to client locations
• Hybrid is our default way of working. Each domain has customized the hybrid approach to their unique needs.

Your role as an Assistant Manager

We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.

In addition to living our purpose, Assistant Manager across our organization must strive to be:

• Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation
• Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose
• Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity
• Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future
• Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders
• Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions
• Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen
• Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities
• Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization
• Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities
• Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for the success of engagement(s)
• Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience
• Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems
• Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte
• Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviors and attitudes to become more inclusive.