Executive-Transaction and Business Advisory

Sgco & Co; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Sgco & Co in Mumbai seeks a tax and regulatory due diligence specialist to assess transaction risks, identify exposures, and document findings for client engagements.

You will review schemes and agreements (SPAs, schemes of arrangement), research domestic and international tax laws, and coordinate with legal and finance teams to implement compliant structuring across deals. Mentoring interns is also part of the role.

Qualifications

• Sound understanding of tax and regulatory provisions (income tax, company laws).
• Ability to review transactional documents (Scheme of Arrangement, SPAs) to identify issues.
• Research and analysis of domestic and international tax and corporate laws.
• Identify material tax exposures and document findings in a diligence report.

Responsibilities

• Conduct tax and regulatory due diligence in engagements.
• Coordinate with multiple teams to implement structuring schemes.
• Prepare integration schemes and review transaction documents.
• Mentor and coach interns.

Skills

Tax laws

Regulatory compliance

Due diligence reporting

Transaction structuring

Cross-border structuring

Team coordination

Mentoring interns

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Role & responsibilities

Technical Knowledge

• Sound understanding of basic provisions of transaction related laws such as income-tax and company laws, international tax laws. Knowledge of other regulatory laws such as FEMA, IBC, SEBI would be added advantage.
• Ability to identify issues based on review of various transactional information / documents / agreements such as Scheme of Arrangement, Share Purchase Agreement etc
• Ability to undertake research and analysis of transaction tax related laws (such as domestic and international tax, corporate laws, SEBI, FEMA, Competition Act, stamp duty laws etc.) on inbound and outbound deals, corporate reorganizations, securities market aspects, etc
• Identifying, highlighting and quantifying material historical and potential tax exposures / benefits and issues involving risk of the acquiring the target.
• Perform direct tax diligence (this involves scrutinizing past tax issues, record, compliance, etc. of the target) and capture the facts and analysis in a diligence report
• Transaction structuring from a tax and regulatory perspective, preparing integration schemes, co-ordination with various teams, review of schemes / transaction documents related to the afore mentioned structuring, implementation and compliance
• Outbound and Inbound structuring: Evolving optimal ownership / investment/ funding structures for investment in specified jurisdictions and in India from tax and regulatory efficiency perspective. Analysis of respective DTAAs between India and specified jurisdictions and high-level analysis of corporate laws of such specified jurisdictions Knowledge of MS office and other processes and tools to achieve work efficiency
• Be updated on latest developments and share articles on industry trends.

Client Responsibilities

• Conduct the engagement in a professional manner and in accordance with client expectations and as defined by the terms and conditions of the contract
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously & attention to detail
• Build productive working relationships with clients

People Skills

• Exhibit positive attitude and demonstrate willingness to learn
• Contribute and leverage knowledge from individuals, data base and other sources
• Provide timely and high-quality output and work products
• Mentoring and coaching interns