Job Description Summary

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with all aspects of global S2T Enterprise Standard and defining executing plans to close them drive controllership awareness and compliance.
• Hold planning meetings with the statutory auditors to agree on the audit approach fees schedule audit calendar and the prepared by client list.
• Hold planning meetings with the internal process stakeholders (business finance managers/controllers & tax directors/controllers) to agree on the audit requirements and key milestone dates.
• Compile and communicate the statutory and tax required documentation & information that is required to support the local statutory & tax filing to all the process stakeholders.
• Conduct operational pulse meetings throughout the entire process to update all the process stakeholders on milestones achieved challenges and next steps.
• Manage statutory audit field work and monitor the execution in accordance with the agreed audit calendar and accordingly complete the S2G in S-HFM.
• Hold de-brief meetings with all the statutory & tax process stakeholders and identify process improvement areas as well as any corrective actions for future filing periods.
• Ownership of Stat & Tax obligations (from MS1 to MS11) for the South Asia entities and responsibility for ensuring obligations are accurate and up to date. Partner with businesses and other functional teams to drive compliance.
• Lead efforts to improve external audit effectiveness in South Asia through oversight of identification/resolution of potential going concern/qualified audit opinions and support enhancements reported in the management letter process.
• Drive projects to improve standardization and simplification to ensure ongoing efficiencies.
• Liaise with business/commercial tax teams with regards to tax compliance work and be the interface between finance teams and external tax consultants if any regarding collection preparation and analysis of financial data legal documents and other relevant information required Prepare Corporate Income tax provision for businesses/divisions in charge prepare annual ATPT ETR analysis validate tax balance sheet accounts coordinate with businesses and tax operation team with respect to valuation allowance and FIN48 reserve analysis.
• Prepare statutory tax account reconciliations and ensure that the tax balances are well supported with work papers. Prepare and trace tax payment and support on settlement.
• Prepare & draft estimated tax computation for entities which are required to file an estimated chargeable income for tax payment purposes.
• Prepare tax computation for the entities in accordance with the S2T workpapers and local tax regulation. Compile information required to tax audit report (TAR) and data reconciliation for (Incl 34a Section 145A FA43B etc.) along with proper backups co-ordinate completion of required disclosures.
• Gathering relevant financial information to prepare Transfer Pricing documentation Form 3CEB to ensure relevant intra group pricing of products and services compliance with GEs Transfer Pricing policies. Support the corporate income tax audit and assessment.

Required Qualifications

• Qualified chartered accountant or equivalent professional qualifications;
• 5-7 years of experience with Stat to GAAP Statutory/Tax filings
• Excellent knowledge of country requirements (Bangladesh & India) relating to statutory accounting and reporting & extensive experience in reporting under Local GAAP.
• Working knowledge of US GAAP requirements & excellent Knowledge of IFRS.
• Comprehensive understanding on the local documentation requirements.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills - report out the key achievements challenges and next steps on a weekly basis to the regional leadership team.
• Self-starter with a commitment to meet deadlines - strong engagement to perform activities identified in the project plan and lead to completion on time and meet the Key Milestone deadlines of the project
• Strong attention to details experience with data analytics
• Identify risk areas which can impact the timely and accurate completion of the key milestones and use the appropriate communication channels provided by the project framework to escalate issues.

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