Tax Manager

Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across regimes, allowing end users to have actionable intelligence on a single platform. At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception (data collection), comprehension (data processing), and prediction (analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects (RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.
We are seeking a proactive Tax Manager to join our team. In this role, you will lead the tax and regulatory functions, ensuring compliance with direct and indirect taxes, customs duties, and international trade regulations while collaborating with multiple departments to optimize costs and mitigate risks. You will play a pivotal role in managing audits, advising on tax strategies, and driving process improvements to ensure seamless financial operations and compliance across the organization
Why Us?

• Competitive incentives, galvanizing workspace, blazing team, frequent outings—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup + you get to work on space technology.
• Hustle in a well-funded startup that allows you to take charge of your responsibilities and create your own moonshot.

Role and Responsibilities

• Assists in the day-to-day functioning of the tax and regulatory function within the finance team and work closely with the accounting team
• Manage the ongoing direct tax, indirect tax, and regulatory compliances for the group companies in India, such as TDS, TCS, Equalization Levy, GST compliances, Form 15CA/ CB, RBI compliances, etc.
• The Manager will be responsible for managing all aspects of customs duties and compliance related to international trade
• The manager will work closely with other departments, including logistics, supply chain, legal, and finance, to optimize duty costs, mitigate risk, and ensure timely and accurate reporting
•  Identify and evaluate opportunities for customs duty savings, including Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), Duty Drawback programs, and other duty reduction strategies.
• Manage and document transfer pricing policies and ensure compliance with local and international regulations.
• Provide tax advice on ad-hoc business issues or projects as needed.
• Advise on the tax implications of corporate structure, including business operations, investments, and joint ventures.
• Participate in planning on imports to structure the customs duty
• Reconciliations of input tax credit under GST, TDS reconciliations, and other reconciliations required under different tax laws
• Manage and comply with local, state, and central government reporting requirements and regulatory filings.
• Work closely on international compliances relating to - Finance, Accounting, Legal, Tax, etc.
• Support on review and negotiation of contracts from an overall tax, commercial, finance, and regulatory perspective
• Update and implement the latest changes in laws as applicable on a timely basis
• Manage and comply with any other local, state, and central government reporting requirements and tax filings
• Support requirements of business and operations team in day-to-day functioning and new business initiatives
• Manage discussions and coordination with external consultants, lawyers, and tax & regulatory authorities, including meetings and representations on behalf of the company
• Coordinate with external auditors for statutory audits, tax audits, internal audits, transfer pricing certifications, etc. Ensure expenses are booked in the correct entity.
• Collecting and analyzing various accounting / operational data to prepare periodical reports, reconciliations, etc.
• Provide support on month-end and year-end closure process
• Assisting in financial /regulatory diligence/ audit by third parties
• Identify and drive automation and process improvements, including creating standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, quick reference summary dashboards, etc.
• Ensure compliance with local laws, labour laws, and allied business laws applicable to the company
• Analyze financial data – and create optimal operating models for supporting decision-making.
• Understand the economics, metrics, and drivers of costs and share leads on potential opportunities to optimize costs
• Design and administer internal controls over tax and financial reporting, including process controls.
• Ensure processes are lean, agile, and organized to enable relevant stakeholders to focus on making timely and accurate decisions

Desired Skills

• The person is expected to take hands-on initiatives and lead and execute activities in his/her areas with minimum supervision/monitoring or assistance.
• Should be a problem solver, take the initiative, and proactively reach out to stakeholders to solve deadlocks/issues.
• The ideal candidate should have completed CA articleship training and 5-7 years of working experience in tax, accounting, and finance, preferably in a Big4 firm.
• Should have in-depth knowledge of corporate tax, international tax, indirect taxes, and accounting standards
• Working knowledge of PF, PT, ESI, MCA, and RBI compliances
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Integrity, with an ability to handle confidential information
• Ability to multitask and manage expectations of relevant stakeholders from time to time
• Should have a positive attitude, be a good team player, be willing to learn, and be flexible to adapt to varied roles within the finance function

Work Location: Hebbal, Bangalore
Work Type: WFO with alternate Saturdays