CA Intern, Tax Operations

Location: Bangalore

About the Role

The UniOps Tax Operations team at Unilever is responsible for collecting and analyzing tax and finance data, performing tax compliance activities, and supporting group tax reporting and audits in areas like VAT, withholding tax, corporate income tax, and transfer pricing. The team also ensures compliance with the tax control framework and drives best practices and continuous improvement. As part of the Global Tax function's "Future of Tax" transformation project, the CA Intern will support the Tax Data COE with data extraction, reconciliations, compliance preparation, and documentation. This role offers hands-on exposure to direct and indirect tax processes within a standardized, technology-enabled tax operation.

Key Responsibilities

• Support in the computation of VAT / GST and Withholding Tax and assist in preparing periodic returns (e.g., GSTR-1, GSTR-3B).
• Assist in rule-based calculations related to CIT tax provision, advance tax, and quarterly group reporting under senior review.
• Build understanding of underlying accounting entries related to tax and support variance analysis.
• Assist in ensuring tax-related payments and filings are prepared within statutory timelines across respective countries.
• Help gather documentation and data support for audit queries and prepare working papers with analysis.
• Support archiving of documents for all tax-related activities, from data extraction to filing, as per ITGC & audit requirements.
• Provide clarification and data support to relevant stakeholders under guidance.
• Contribute to continuous improvement ideas and assist in deploying simple tools/automation to drive process efficiencies.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Exposure to Direct Tax / Indirect Tax (GST) / Withholding Tax through articleship or internship.
• Fair knowledge of accounting and financial statements.
• Working/end-user knowledge of ERP systems; awareness of SAP (FI module) is an advantage.
• Strong MS Excel skills (Pivot Tables, Power Query, Lookup / Index-Match); awareness of Power BI is an added advantage.

Qualifications

• CA Finalist completed one year of Articleship in an Audit firm and currently pursuing CA, joining for Industrial Trainee for the 2nd year.
• Prior articleship experience in Taxation, Accounting (R2R), or Direct / Indirect Tax preferred.
• Candidate should have either completed Articleship or be in the final month of Articleship with a reputed Audit firm and must be available to join within the next two weeks.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Positive attitude with the ability to proactively get things done.
• Self-starter with a willingness to learn and take ownership of assigned responsibilities.