Maersk India
Maersk India | Senior Specialist - Indirect Tax Operations
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Job Highlights
Responsibilities
- This position will be responsible for process execution, data management and compliance delivery for indirect taxes within the APMM entities (for India region).
- Ensuring compliance / delivery of the indirect tax portfolio under assigned jurisdictions and entities.
- Supporting audit needs of various jurisdictions/ entities under given portfolio.
- Prepare and review Indirect tax returns and various tax support workpapers accurately and timely as required by taxing jurisdictions to ensure all tax filings deadlines are met.
- Identify, initiate, and support the continual process improvement to ensure the quality and efficiency of processes and systems within the tax function.
- Supporting audit needs of various jurisdictions and ensuring organization is audit ready.
- Monitor and control indirect tax compliance process workflow and related timeline.
- Investigate and plan action on Indirect tax account aging balances.
- Support and contribute to finance transformation and related tax projects.
- Support in the research of international indirect tax law and assist in tax planning, accounting, and compliance.
- Assist in collating data and preparing reports, reconciliations, and responses to information requests from management, tax authorities and auditors.
- Ensuring effective, pro-active communication with external and internal stakeholders.
- Supporting the continuous improvement of processes, controls, and data quality, including effective use of technology, to manage risk and cost relating to Indirect taxes, also adapting to the increasing demands for real-time, data-led transactional reporting.
- Providing data/ information for international tax compliance and tax audit support.
- Process management and improvement.
Required qualification, experience & skills
- Qualified Chartered Accountant/ Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Taxation / MBA or similar with vast experience as below.
- Knowledge about Financial & Accounting systems and processes.
- Experience with ERP systems (preferred SAP) is required and awareness of or experience with tax compliance & reporting technologies and effective process & control operation.
- Good verbal and written communication skills with different levels of stakeholder, both internal and external.
- Team player and should be a team-oriented person.
About the company
A.P. Moller - Maersk
Maersk has been in business since 1904 and is run from Copenhagen, where its parent, A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S, is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen. Its roots are in container shipping, but it now describes itself as an integrated container logistics company, linking ocean freight, port terminals, inland transport and air cargo for customers in about 130 countries. In India, Maersk Line India Private Limited has its registered office in Mumbai, and the group has offices in cities such as Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Kolkata and New Delhi. Its Global Service Centres, set up in 1999, run finance, commercial, operations and technology work for the group from Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai and Pune.
Finance hiring at the service centres in Chennai, Mumbai and Pune covers account-to-report (ATR) accounting, cost and financial controlling, financial analysis and reporting, finance business partnering, SG&A analysis, indirect tax operations and tax audit, and treasury settlements. Most postings ask for a Chartered Accountant or an MBA in Finance, and many also accept a Cost Accountant (ICWA/CMA), ACCA or CPA. Some are open to semi-qualified CAs or CA/CWA finalists, several look for a good grasp of IFRS, and one treats a law degree as an added advantage.
