Associate Director - GST

Deloitte Consulting; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 20,00,000 - 30,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is looking for an Associate Director in Bengaluru to lead a team in the Indirect Tax department. The role involves integrating technology solutions with indirect tax compliance, mentoring professionals, and effectively communicating with various stakeholders. The ideal candidate should have CA qualifications and 8-11 years of experience in the field, alongside strong leadership and communication skills. Hybrid work is encouraged with travel to client locations.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills required to manage a team effectively.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively.
• Experience in handling indirect tax compliance and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of indirect tax professionals and ensure quality delivery.
• Collaborate with senior tax professionals to understand their IT needs.
• Ideate technology solutions for simplifying indirect tax processes.

Skills

Leadership Qualities

Effective communication and presentation skills

Persistent and persuasive

Education

CA with 8-11 years of experience

Job description

Overview

As a Associate Director in our Indirect Tax team you'll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations.

Role is in relation to exploring touchpoints between Indirect taxes (more particularly GST law) and technology working as a part of and in collaboration with the IDT team in the firm. This would entail wide exposure and visibility to wide ranging ERP platforms/ tax engines and fair degree of familiarization with indirect tax laws and in respect of tax automation.

Responsibilities

• Ability to lead a team of indirect tax professionals and meeting client expectations in terms of quality and timely delivery
• Ability to understand the IDT compliance landscape and ideate how technology can be used, internally (by IDT professionals in the firm) and also externally (by industry clients) to make the compliance process more effective simpler, speedier and qualitatively superior
• Appreciate the evolution of GST and Customs law in India, and be able to vision how technology can be used for simplifying indirect tax touchpoints as a part of business process in trade and industry for trading, manufacturing and service businesses
• Conceptualize possible IT products for indirect tax practitioner for example, ITC matching, ITC leakage, Expense-ITC bifurcation, inputs/input services/ capital goods ITC bifurcation, Refunds management, Foreign Trade Policy schemes management (Serve from India Incentive Scheme / Merchandise Exports Incentive Scheme), litigation tracker etc
• Ideate supply chain solutions to optimize GST /Customs duty cost by standardizing procurement and distribution cycle of various business models
• Collaborate with senior indirect tax professionals to envisage their IT needs - their concerns in managing IDT compliance and work together to configure products/ offerings which may enhance their efficiency and provide solutions to client problems
• Build and mentor a team of IDT-IT professionals
• Train hard core tax technical professionals in the firm in basics of technology which they need for being more effective in their practice area considering the enhanced role of technology in the GST and Customs arena
• Work on specific big ticket assignments/ engagements of IDT more efficiently deliver the same with the aid of technology solutions.

• Capable of having a vision of how technology and IT including new frontiers, like RPA, Blockchain, AI and other technological inflexion points can influence and transform the practice of indirect taxes to make it simpler and efficient

Qualifications

• CA with 8-11 years of experience
• Leadership Qualities
• Effective communication and presentation skills
• Persistent and persuasive

Location and way of working

• Base location: Bangalore
• 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 a Associate Director

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, Senior 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 able 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 is valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviours and attitudes to become more inclusive