Senior Indirect Tax Specialist - VAT Compliance

Thomson Reuters; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Thomson Reuters seeks a Senior Tax Specialist to manage end-to-end VAT/GST and indirect tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions in India. You will prepare, review, and file returns, ensure timely payments, and support audits, with a focus on process improvements and automation.

You will mentor juniors, contribute to tax technology and ERP projects, and collaborate with Finance, Legal, and Business teams to ensure accurate tax reporting and registrations across countries.

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Admin or related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent English written and spoken communication.
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Proactive, organized, improvement-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, review, and file VAT/GST returns and other indirect tax filings per local regs.
• Ensure timely payment of VAT/GST liabilities and monitor deadlines.
• Prepare reconciliations and tax calculations for indirect tax reporting.
• Analyze data to ensure accuracy of tax filings.
• Monitor regulatory changes and impact on compliance processes.
• Coordinate with external tax advisors and service providers.
• Serve as a key contact for Finance, Accounting, AP/AR, Legal and Business teams.
• Support VAT/GST audits and tax authority inquiries.
• Maintain tax registrations and assist with registrations/deregistrations across countries.
• Perform indirect tax account reconciliations and assist with month-end/year-end tax tasks.
• Identify compliance risks and drive process improvements.
• Participate in tax technology, ERP enhancements, and automation initiatives.
• Develop and maintain SOPs and internal controls.
• Provide guidance and training to junior team members.

Skills

Analytical skills

English proficiency

Excel

Stakeholder management

Multitasking

Attention to detail

Proactive mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics/Business Administration

Tools

Excel

Job description

Job Description

This Senior Tax Specialist role manages end-to-end VAT/GST and indirect tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions. The position covers preparing, reviewing, and filing returns, ensuring timely payments, and maintaining accurate reconciliations and documentation. It also involves monitoring regulatory changes, supporting audits, and driving process improvements through automation and AI adoption. The role includes mentoring junior staff and contributing to tax technology, ERP, and cross-functional projects such as M&A and entity restructuring.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare, review, and submit VAT/GST returns, sales and use tax returns, and other indirect tax filings in line with local regulations.
• Ensure timely payment of VAT/GST liabilities and monitor tax deadlines to avoid penalties and interest.
• Prepare and review supporting documentation, reconciliations, and tax calculations for indirect tax reporting.
• Analyze accounting and transactional data to ensure accuracy and completeness of tax filings.
• Monitor changes in VAT/GST legislation and assess their impact on compliance processes.
• Coordinate with external tax advisors and service providers handling local compliance.
• Serve as a key contact for Finance, Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Legal, and Business teams.
• Support VAT/GST audits, tax authority inquiries, and inspections by preparing documentation and responding to information requests.
• Maintain tax registrations and support VAT/GST registration and deregistration across countries.
• Perform indirect tax account reconciliations and assist with month-end and year-end tax activities.
• Identify compliance risks and recommend process improvements.
• Participate in tax technology, ERP enhancement, and automation initiatives.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, SOPs, and internal controls.
• Provide guidance and training to junior team members and support knowledge sharing within the tax team.
• Collaborate on M&A, legal entity restructuring, and new business activities from an indirect tax perspective.
• Identify and drive adoption of AI and automation within VAT/GST compliance, reporting, controls, and data analysis.

Required Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field. Recent graduates with a finance, accounting, or economics background are welcome.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Very good command of English, written and spoken, including professional business and formal correspondence.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proactive, organized, and improvement-oriented mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in indirect tax compliance, VAT, GST, accounting, or finance operations.
• Interest in process automation, digital transformation, and AI solutions in finance and tax functions.

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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