Thomson Reuters India
Thomson Reuters India | Senior Indirect Tax Specialist - VAT Compliance
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Job Highlights
Key responsibilities
- This Senior Tax Specialist role manages end-to-end VAT/GST and indirect tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
- The position covers preparing, reviewing, and filing returns, ensuring timely payments, and maintaining accurate reconciliations and documentation.
- The role includes mentoring junior staff and contributing to tax technology, ERP, and cross-functional projects such as M&A and entity restructuring.
- As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals.
- Prepare, review, and submit VAT/GST returns, sales and use tax returns, and other indirect tax filings in line with local regulations.
- Ensure timely payment of VAT/GST liabilities and monitor tax deadlines to avoid penalties and interest.
- Prepare and review supporting documentation, reconciliations, and tax calculations for indirect tax reporting.
- Analyze accounting and transactional data to ensure accuracy and completeness of tax filings.
- Monitor changes in VAT/GST legislation and assess their impact on compliance processes.
- Coordinate with external tax advisors and service providers handling local compliance.
- Serve as a key contact for Finance, Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Legal, and Business teams.
- Support VAT/GST audits, tax authority inquiries, and inspections by preparing documentation and responding to information requests.
- Maintain tax registrations and support VAT/GST registration and deregistration across countries.
- Perform indirect tax account reconciliations and assist with month-end and year-end tax activities.
- Identify compliance risks and recommend process improvements.
- Participate in tax technology, ERP enhancement, and automation initiatives.
- Develop and maintain process documentation, SOPs, and internal controls.
- Provide guidance and training to junior team members and support knowledge sharing within the tax team.
- Collaborate on M&A, legal entity restructuring, and new business activities from an indirect tax perspective.
- Identify and drive adoption of AI and automation within VAT/GST compliance, reporting, controls, and data analysis.
- Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.
Requirements
- Recent graduates with a finance, accounting, or economics background are welcome.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in indirect tax compliance, VAT, GST, accounting, or finance operations.
About the company
Thomson Reuters Corporation
Thomson Reuters took its present form in April 2008, when the Canadian information group The Thomson Corporation acquired Reuters Group, the news business Paul Julius Reuter had started in London in 1851. Based in Toronto, it is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and Nasdaq as TRI, and the Thomson family controls it through The Woodbridge Company. It serves lawyers, tax and accounting firms, corporate finance and legal teams and government bodies with research content and software such as Westlaw, Practical Law, ONESOURCE and CoCounsel, and it runs the Reuters news agency. In 2018 it sold a majority stake in its financial and risk business, which became Refinitiv. In India it has offices in cities including Bengaluru, its biggest Indian site, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Gurugram, with teams in technology, finance, customer service, analytics, sales, marketing and journalism.
Its finance-related openings in India are in tax and audit. In Bengaluru, an indirect tax specialist role handles VAT compliance and asks for a degree in finance, accounting, economics or business administration, while a senior internal auditor role calls for six or more years in IT audit, internal controls, cybersecurity, data analytics or audit quality, with certifications such as CISA, CIA, CISSP or CISM preferred. In Hyderabad, a product manager role for the company's UK tax products wants six to nine years of product management experience in an agile software setting.
