Accounting Associate, Tax Ops

About the Role

We are looking to add a skilled Accounting Associate (Indirect Tax) within the Indirect Tax CoE (Centre of Excellence) based in Bangalore, India. This role is responsible for managing EMEA VAT compliance processes, leveraging technology platforms such as Vertex/Avalara to ensure accurate filings, data integrity, and payment workflows. The Associate will bring deep multi-jurisdictional tax knowledge, audit compliance expertise, and a proactive approach to process improvement and automation. The preference for this role is to be based out of Whitefield Office, Bangalore, India.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage periodical indirect tax compliance for Global regions.
• Extract and interpret tax data from systems to enable informed business decisions.
• Perform return filing and reconciling with the books of accounts on Tax positions.
• Monitor the completeness and accuracy in indirect tax systems, striving for full tax automation.
• Drive improved and efficient tax compliance.
• Prepare and Submit EU VAT returns, EC Sales List, Intrastat, and other indirect tax filings across multiple jurisdictions.
• Work on testing VAT related internal controls.
• Analyze and validate compliance data, flagging issues and collaborating with teams to resolve them efficiently.
• Maintain and develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders regarding compliance-related matters.
• Ensure adherence to indirect tax processes and update procedures as needed.
• Prepare and review month-end reconciliations and journal entries, maintaining comprehensive audit documentation.
• Leverage technology to streamline and automate tax calculations, ensuring compliance and accuracy.
• Drive cross-border projects and develop best practices in processes on a Global level.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Degree in finance, accounting, tax, or related field.
• Strong English written and verbal communication skills.
• Core experience with Global VAT/GST and Indirect tax accounting. Mainly UK
• Robust knowledge of MS Excel.
• Ability to analyze large data volumes to identify key insights.
• Self-driven with a critical and positive 'can-do' attitude.
• Comfortable collaborating with various subject matter experts.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with minimal supervision.
• This position requires candidates to work a 5-day-a-week schedule in the office.

Preferred Technologies & Tools

• Working knowledge of SAP and Tax engines, tools such as Vertex, GVRT, is preferred.

Qualifications

Accuracy and Attention to Detail

• Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
• Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
• Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
• Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
• Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.

Analytical Thinking

• Names specific tools or techniques that can be used to support the analytical thinking process.
• Describes specific software applications or products used for business analytics.
• Gives examples of how analytical thinking has been used to resolve problems.
• Helps others research and learn more about business analytics tools and applications.

Effective Communications

• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Managing Multiple Priorities

• Explains basic concepts of time and priority management.
• Seeks guidance in detecting and addressing priority conflicts.
• States own business priorities.
• Describes team or unit priorities.

Problem Solving

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Accounting

• Utilizes cost monitoring practices, techniques and considerations.
• Works with financial transactions and related documentation within the organization.
• Participates in accounting practices of classifying and recording financial data.
• Maintains existing charts of accounts.
• Follows regulations for entering and reporting the financial content in major accounting systems.

Financial Reporting

• Describes basic methods for financial report writing.
• Identifies basic financial report-writing tools.
• Clarifies the purpose and value of accurate financial reports.
• Utilizes the major financial reports used by the organization.