Manager- Taxation

📋 Description

• • Own the end-to-end direct-tax lifecycle for one of India’s fastest-growing media & entertainment giants. You will steer the tax strategy for JioStar’s television network and streaming platform that reaches 750 million viewers weekly, ensuring every rupee of tax is optimized and every compliance deadline is met across India and multiple foreign jurisdictions.
• • Prepare and file corporate income-tax returns, TDS returns, advance-tax challans, equalization-levy forms, and other statutory filings for domestic entities as well as international subsidiaries. Build a rock-solid calendar that guarantees zero default interest or penalties.
• • Draft crisp, technically sound submissions for scrutiny assessments, survey proceedings, and reopening notices. Review facts, marshal judicial precedents, and present positions that stand up to the toughest departmental review.
• • Represent JioStar before Assessing Officers, CIT(Appeals), ITAT, and High Courts—both personally and alongside external counsel. Secure favorable orders, negotiate lower withholding certificates, and convert disputes into opportunities for certainty.
• • Partner with Finance, Legal, Treasury, and Business teams to embed tax-efficient structures into new content deals, sports-rights acquisitions, ad-sales arrangements, and tech-licensing agreements. Translate complex tax jargon into plain-English guidance that enables swift commercial decisions.
• • Finalize tax-audit reports under section 44AB, transfer-pricing documentation, and GAAP-to-tax reconciliations. Liaise with Big-4 advisors and internal auditors to close books within tight quarterly and year-end timelines.
• • Compute quarterly tax provisions, effective-tax-rate (ETR) forecasts, deferred-tax assets/liabilities (DTA/DTL), and cash-tax projections that feed directly into board-level dashboards and investor presentations.
• • Manage withholding-tax obligations on domestic and cross-border payments—content acquisition costs, satellite-transponder fees, software royalties, and influencer payouts. File Form 15CA/CB, secure lower-deduction certificates, and keep the FEMA/Tax interface clean.
• • Build and maintain a dynamic tax-MIS repository: notice tracker, appeal status, refund pipeline, and litigation heat-map. Deliver concise C-suite updates that spotlight risk, opportunity, and cash-flow impact.
• • Drive automation initiatives—RPA bots for TDS reconciliations, AI-enabled notice-reading tools, SAP FICO tax-cockpit enhancements—that cut manual hours by 30% and scale with JioStar’s exponential growth.
• • Monitor legislative changes, circulars, and landmark judgments; run internal webinars to keep finance, commercial, and production teams ahead of the curve. Ensure every new business model (AVOD, FAST channels, metaverse events) is launched with a clear tax roadmap.
• • Cultivate a culture of compliance excellence. Coach junior analysts, set up checklists, and create audit-ready documentation that turns tax from a back-office function into a strategic growth enabler.