Air Liquide India | AMEI Tax Manager

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the provision of sound professional advice to management on all tax and tax law matters, and their application to the organization's business.
• Ensure the effective operation of the Tax function within the region, aligning with the Air Liquide Group, the AMEI Tax COE and Regional Tax specialists on key tax matters.
• Provide and manage commercial and technical tax advice to stakeholders, ensuring consistent and effective tax risk management.
• Support investment papers with tax expertise as required.
• Collaborate with the Air Liquide Group tax team and the AMEI Tax COE on cross-regional tax issues.
• Maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders across functions and within the company.
• Build an effective tax strategy to optimize the company's tax position.
• Work on tax efficiency projects and monitor changes in direct and indirect tax legislation, policy, and judicial precedents to assess the impact on the organization.
• Identify tax risks and opportunities related to the existing business and new projects.
• Oversee tax accounting, compliance, and audits to ensure regulatory adherence.
• Manage tax audit and tax enquiries.
• Draft responses and submissions for tax notices, department inquiries, and tax proceedings.
• Work closely with external tax consultants, legal counsel, and auditors to develop strategies for tax litigation.
• Review and support transfer pricing documentation to ensure compliance with tax regulation in all jurisdictions.
• Oversee domestic and international transfer pricing documentation, intercompany transactions, and local file preparations.
• Lead tax transformation initiatives, including the transfer of transactional tax activities to Finance GBS and optimizing tax-related processes, including digitalization.
• Oversee the timely preparation and filing of corporate income tax returns, transfer pricing compliance, and other annual returns.
• Prepare tax provisions, reconciliations, and tax notes for reporting or annual financial statements.
• Provide support for statutory audits.
• Manage direct tax audits, assessments, and inquiries initiated by tax authorities.
• Manage withholding tax (TDS/WHT) compliance, calculations, reconciliations, and filings.
• Coordinate and complete various tax returns by required deadlines.

Requirements

• Experience in managing tax audits and queries from initiation to litigation.
• Solid foundation of knowledge across core areas of tax management.
• Good written and verbal communication skills combined with a service oriented manner.
• Good knowledge of Direct tax laws
• Strong decision making competence.
• Excellent attention to detail.

Air Liquide S.A.

Air Liquide was founded in 1902, with Paul Delorme as its first president, to exploit the air liquefaction process developed by Georges Claude. It has been listed on the Paris Stock Exchange since 1913 and now trades on Euronext Paris. The group supplies industrial gases and related services to medical, chemical and electronics manufacturers, and also has healthcare products, engineering, hydrogen production and the specialty chemicals company SEPPIC. Its presence in India began in 1992. Air Liquide India is in Noida, and the group also has NovaAir and SEPPIC India in Mumbai, medical systems in Chennai and a Cryolor unit at Madurantakam, Tamil Nadu.

Its finance openings in India have been manager-level roles in Pune. One is a finance project manager role needing ten or more years in shared service centre transformation and migration projects, with a master's degree in finance, business administration or project management. The other is a tax manager role for the AMEI region (Africa, Middle East and India) asking for seven or more years in taxation, with a bachelor's degree in a tax-related field.

• Industry: Industrial gases and services for industry and healthcare, plus engineering, hydrogen and specialty chemicals
• Headquarters: Paris, France (listed on Euronext Paris as AI)
• In India: Air Liquide India in Noida, with units in Mumbai (NovaAir, SEPPIC India), Chennai and Madurantakam; presence since 1992