Associate, SaT

About the Role

As a Consultant, you will help the team deliver and contribute to profitable growth by ensuring client engagements are executed efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

• Client Responsibilities:
• Conduct engagements professionally, in accordance with client expectations and contract terms.
• Prepare and file individual tax returns and e-TDS returns.
• Draft submissions before tax authorities and represent before them.
• Advise on outbound/inbound structuring related to employee movement.
• Possess working knowledge of immigration and provident fund in connection with expatriates.
• People Responsibilities:
• Exhibit a positive attitude and demonstrate a willingness to learn.
• Work constructively with the team to evaluate and improve personal and team performance.
• Contribute and leverage knowledge from individuals, databases, and other sources.
• Provide timely and high-quality services and work products that exceed client expectations.
• Operational Excellence / Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
• Participate in executing work within a group by delivering work effectively and teaming with tax professionals to provide comprehensive tax solutions.
• Ensure assigned areas of work are executed according to the work program, firm methodologies, guidance, and professional standards.
• Efficiently use electronic working papers, including various software applications and knowledge sources for research.
• Acquire and demonstrate competence in technical knowledge and compliance processes by staying updated on trends, developments, and technical authorities, and applying them to moderately complex situations.
• Analyze and convert data into a tax product (advisory/compliance), ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Where applicable, thoroughly check documents and make them available for tax inspections.
• Demonstrate professionalism through a positive and cooperative attitude, and by maintaining the confidential and proprietary nature of client relationships and related work products.
• Contribute to the overall team success by developing a thorough understanding of methodologies and tools to enhance service delivery, keeping team members informed of work status, actively seeking assignments, proactively seeking opportunities to provide tax services, challenging traditional procedures, and attempting to find new approaches.

Skills and Attributes For Success

• Good Communication skills (Written & Oral)
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Strong Analytical/Numerical ability
• Enthusiastic and Self Starter
• Team Player
• Ability to grasp details
• Good time management skills

Qualifications

• A certified CA
• 0-1 year of relevant experience
• Ideally, also possess good interpersonal skills.
• Be highly flexible, adaptable, and creative.
• Comfortable interacting with senior executives (within the firm and at the client).

What We Look For

People with the ability to work in a collaborative way to provide services across multiple client departments while adhering to commercial and legal requirements. You will need a practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions.