State Street India
State Street India | VAT & Tax Compliance - Senior Manager
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Job Highlights
Key responsibilities
- The role will be accountable for high-quality compliance delivery, effective governance and controls, and proactive management of tax risks and deadlines.
- Provide leadership and oversight of global VAT/GST, indirect tax, and U.S. Sales & Use Tax compliance activities.
- Ensure timely and accurate preparation, review, and submission of tax returns, statutory filings, and related payments.
- Maintain effective governance over global compliance calendars, proactively managing risks, exceptions, and overdue actions.
- Oversee VAT/GST and use tax calculations, reconciliations, payments, supporting documentation, and alignment to general ledger and transactional data.
- Provide technical leadership on input VAT recovery, output VAT, reverse charge, intercompany and cross-border transactions, and U.S. use tax assessment and compliance, as applicable.
- Partner with Corporate Tax, Finance, Accounts Payable, Procurement, and Financial Controllers to resolve complex indirect and transactional tax matters.
- Maintain a strong control environment, including appropriate review, documentation, evidence retention, and escalation procedures.
- Oversee tax authority queries, audits, and information requests and ensure sustainable remediation of identified issues.
- Monitor relevant tax developments and lead implementation of changes affecting compliance processes.
- Drive standardization, simplification, automation, data quality, and effective management reporting across indirect tax compliance.
- Provide leadership and oversight of corporate tax compliance activities supported by the team.
- Provide oversight and review of Tax Packs and related corporate tax compliance deliverables.
- Review tax-sensitive accounts, corporate tax accruals, provisions, payments, journals, and reconciliations.
- Ensure appropriate oversight of tax-related general ledger balances and supporting reconciliations.
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of documentation supporting corporate tax filings and statutory reporting.
- Maintain strong governance, controls, and documentation across corporate tax processes.
- Lead and develop a high-performing tax compliance team, driving accountability, technical capability, quality, and effective resource management.
- Act as a senior point of contact for tax compliance, building strong partnerships across Corporate Tax, Finance, Controllers, Accounts Payable, Procurement, and other key stakeholders.
- Provide oversight of compliance delivery, risks, controls, and remediation, ensuring timely resolution and appropriate escalation of key issues.
- Drive standardization, simplification, automation, and continuous improvement across end-to-end tax compliance processes.
- Lead tax transformation and technology initiatives to improve efficiency, accuracy, data quality, controls, and scalability.
- Leverage OneSource, Oracle, Alteryx, Power BI, Power Query, Excel, and AI-enabled solutions, where applicable.
- Foster a strong culture of accountability, collaboration, risk awareness, knowledge sharing, and talent development.
Requirements
- Strong technical knowledge of VAT/GST, indirect tax, U.S. Sales & Use Tax, and corporate tax compliance.
- Proven people leadership with the ability to develop high-performing teams and manage complex global compliance responsibilities.
- Strong governance, risk management, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills, including engagement with senior stakeholders.
- Strong transformation mindset with experience driving process improvement, automation, and technology-enabled solutions.
- Significant experience in VAT/GST, indirect tax, U.S.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing tax or finance professionals in a global or multinational environment.
- Experience in tax transformation, automation, process improvement, or technology-enabled compliance initiatives would be advantageous.
About the company
State Street
State Street Corporation is a US financial services company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with roots that go back to 1792. It is one of the world's largest custody banks and asset servicers: pension funds, mutual funds, insurers and other institutional investors rely on it for custody, fund accounting and fund administration, middle-office and data services, while its investment management arm, known for the SPDR exchange-traded funds, manages money for institutions and individuals.
In India, State Street works mainly through State Street Corporate Services Mumbai Private Limited, with offices in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Coimbatore, Gurugram, Noida and GIFT City. These teams serve State Street's global clients in fund accounting, NAV calculation, fund administration and financial reporting, reconciliations, transfer agency, regulatory reporting, risk and technology — work that suits B.Com, M.Com, CA, CMA, CFA and MBA (Finance) profiles.
