Standard Chartered India | Associate Manager - Indirect Tax

Responsibilities

• The role does not own underlying tax legislation, business strategy or technology development.
• Evaluate proposed changes against tax, business, data and technology needs to establish clear scope, outcomes, dependencies and implementation priorities.
• Provide tax transformation insight to process owners and governance forums, enabling informed decisions on investment, sequencing and implementation risk.
• Assess the impact of tax policy, legislative, process and technology changes on affected teams, controls, data flows and operating procedures.
• Develop and execute change and communication approaches that build stakeholder understanding, readiness and adoption across Group and Country Tax teams.
• Identify adoption barriers and stakeholder concerns early, escalating material issues and coordinating practical mitigation actions with accountable owners.
• Engage Tax, Finance, Technology and business stakeholders to maintain alignment on intended outcomes, responsibilities and implementation requirements.
• Analyse indirect tax workflows to identify control gaps, duplication, manual intervention and opportunities for standardisation or automation.
• Design improved tax processes and operating practices that enhance accuracy, efficiency, traceability and consistency across relevant jurisdictions.
• Coordinate tax input into solution design, testing, user acceptance and implementation readiness to confirm that agreed requirements and controls are addressed.
• Support the controlled deployment of tax technologies by coordinating user guidance, adoption support, issue resolution and post-implementation review.
• Monitor solution performance and data outcomes after implementation, directing identified defects, control concerns and enhancement opportunities to accountable owners.
• Establish proportionate governance for tax change initiatives, providing transparent oversight of scope, milestones, dependencies, decisions and delivery risks.
• Maintain clear project documentation and performance reporting that enables timely escalation, governance review and accountable decision-making.
• Coordinate the identification, assessment and resolution of tax transformation risks and issues, escalating matters outside the role’s authority to the appropriate owner.
• Monitor relevant indirect tax developments and assess potential implications for processes, data, controls, systems and reporting obligations.
• Work with tax technical specialists and process owners to convert legislative interpretation into clear operational and technology change requirements.
• Coordinate implementation readiness for regulatory change, ensuring that dependencies, control updates, documentation and stakeholder actions are understood.
• Evaluate external tax transformation practices and emerging technologies to identify approaches that may strengthen the Bank’s tax operating environment.
• Work with Country Tax teams and project stakeholders to understand e-invoicing regulations and implementation requirements.
• Own the process and improvement of controls and prepare for financial reporting and tax compliance.
• Support Service Delivery by establishing and maintaining the processes, controls and requirements needed for smooth, timely e-invoicing.
• Share current and emerging GCC VAT and India GST developments so the team stays informed and can carry out its responsibilities effectively.
• Translate tax strategy, regulatory developments and operational priorities into a structured transformation roadmap that addresses material and indirect tax requirements.
• Define tax business and operational requirements for tax engines, automation tools, data warehouses and reporting platforms in partnership with Technology teams.

Qualifications

• Experience operating in complex, regulated financial services environments with multiple jurisdictions, stakeholder groups and governance requirements.
• Exposure to indirect tax operating models, tax compliance processes and the organisational impact of legislative or policy change.
• Experience contributing to large-scale transformation involving process redesign, automation, data platforms, tax engines or regulatory reporting solutions.
• Exposure to structured change delivery across business, tax, finance and technology teams, including testing, implementation readiness and post-deployment stabilization.
• Experience working with complex data flows, control frameworks and reporting requirements where accuracy, traceability and timely issue resolution are critical.

Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered is an international banking group headquartered in London, with a strong focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It was formed in 1969 through the merger of Standard Bank and The Chartered Bank.

Its Indian global business services centres hire finance professionals for financial control, stress testing, regulatory reporting, tax and risk roles.

• Industry: Banking and financial services
• Headquarters: London, UK
• In India: Present in India for over 150 years, with global business services centres in Bengaluru and Chennai