Deputy Manager-Tax

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Indirect tax compliance

• Ensure timely payment and filing of returns for Excise duty, Service tax, VAT/CST, Entry tax, Professional tax

• Review of monthly/quarterly/half yearly tax computation and returns
• Assess the impact of amendment/notifications and court cases on organization
• Manage changes to be made in SAP processes to implement the changes made in tax regulations
• Manage Service tax and Excise audits and clarify various tax position taken by organization in line with tax laws
• Ensure timely completion of VAT/CST, Professional Tax and Entry tax assessment
• Work closely with cross function like Finance, logistics, Customer care to ensure availability of required information/documents.

Tax Risk assessment, mitigation and optimization

• Timely review of various transactions/arrangements and contracts to identify tax risk, if any.
• Set tax risk mitigation strategy and assess the impact thereof on the organization
• Execute risk mitigation strategy in time frame manner
• Identify tax optimization opportunities and evaluate the same from risk and system limitation perspective
• Ensure availability of information and documents to justify the position taken by organization

Indirect tax litigation and manage relationship

• Ensure reply to audit paras, SCNs, filing of appeals, stay application and miscellaneous application on time
• Arrange/collects information and documents as required to justify the position taken by organization on disputed issue
• Co-ordinate with consultants/counsels to assess the merits of the issue involved as disputed by tax authority
• Prepare quarterly tax exposure list and get it reviewed by Manager-Taxation
• Manage relationship with tax authority, big4 and cross functions
• Held meetings with various cross functions to address their concerns and provide solution to issues in time line manner

Indirect Tax Advisory

• Advise on day-to-day basis the business units and cross functions on indirect tax matters in time line manner
• Held detail discussion with Indirect tax team on certain critical issues to ensure that tax team is aligned with tax strategies to be executed
• Organize tax workshop for Business units

Tax Accounting

• Ensure timely submission of monthly entries to Global Finance Operation team
• Ensure timely and precise reconciliation of all the indirect tax accounts
• Ensure timely posting of entries proposed by Statutory auditor