Senior Manager - Governance Compliances (Finance)

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Tax Leadership:

- Architect and implement comprehensive international tax strategies aligned with our business objectives and growth plans
- Lead strategic tax planning for cross-border transactions, business restructuring, and market entry/exit decisions
- Design optimal legal entity and operating structures that enhance tax efficiency while meeting business needs, with consideration for merger-acquisition activities and private equity transactions.
- Develop forward-looking tax risk management frameworks to identify, assess, and mitigate potential tax exposures
- Provide strategic tax counsel to the management on major business decisions

Compliance Management:

- Establish robust governance frameworks ensuring full compliance with tax and financial regulations across all operating jurisdictions 
- Direct the preparation and timely filing of all corporate tax returns and disclosures worldwide
- Oversee statutory financial reporting and regulatory submissions in accordance with local requirements
- Implement standardized processes for tax provision calculations and tax accounting

Financial Compliance & Reporting:

- Financial compliance programs covering statutory accounting, regulatory reporting, and corporate governance
- Oversee implementation of financial controls to ensure compliance with local & internation equivalent regulations
- Lead responses to regulatory inquiries and manage relationships with financial regulatory bodies
- Ensure accurate and timely financial disclosures across all legal entities and operating jurisdictions 
- Implement standardized compliance monitoring and reporting systems across the global business

Due Diligence:

- Responsible to serve as a key finance, assurance and tax advisor on all major business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, investments, and strategic partnerships.
- Support the companies' major business and M&A transactions through due diligence, deal negotiation, integration, and other phases.
- Advise on assurance, finance and tax aspects of financing, including assessing and advising on current and future business structures and legal entities.
- Review of finance, indirect tax and direct tax due diligence reports and capture the required recommendations from the advisors into the definitive documents post discussing with the counter parties
- Co-ordinate with internal functional department on sharing the required data to advisors for smooth closure of due diligence and definitive documents.

Acquisition:

-  Identify risks and issues during the course of diligence and analyze the extent of risks and devise mitigation plans.

- Strategically plan and structure deals to align with organizational objectives.
- Drive end to end compliances required under assurance, IND AS, direct and indirect taxes for transaction
- Well versed in driving and designing tax optimised transaction structure.
- Coordinating with internal and external stake holders and assisting the buy/investing side in quick and expeditious conclusion of due diligence.

- Manage due diligence processes, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.
- Address and resolve queries from buyers/investors to expedite deal closures.
- Drive negotiations and ensure prompt execution of definitive agreements

Other Responsibilities:

- Negotiating and concluding NDA's with investors and service providers from non legal tax and commercial prospective.
- Drafting, reviewing clauses related to tax, commercial, transaction structure and negotiating purchase documents, Shareholders and Subscription Agreements, Escrow Agreements.
- Work cross-functionally and assist with data privacy protection and compliance efforts
- Perform other duties, as assigned by the Reporting Manager.
- Ensure ongoing compliance under the Companies Act and SEBI/FEMA regulations for the holding company and subsidiaries.
- Collaborate with legal, strategy, and business teams during negotiations to ensure governance alignment.
- Maintain updated statutory records and lead integration of newly acquired entities into the group structure.

Qualifications:

- Master's degree in Taxation, Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration
- CA, CS CFA, or equivalent professional certification required
- Additional qualifications in international taxation strongly preferred
- Ongoing professional education in relevant tax and compliance domains

Experience:

- 12+ years of progressive experience in international taxation and financial compliance
- Minimum 8 years in leadership roles managing global tax functions from MNC's, Major Conglomerates, Accounting Firms etc
- Experience in Realty/Hospitality industry with understanding of FDI matters
- Proven track record managing complex tax matters across multiple jurisdictions
- Experience leading tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and business restructurings
- Demonstrated success in building and developing global finance teams