Shell is hiring CA for Senior Tax Specialist Profile

Job Title	Senior Tax Specialist
Country of Work Location	India
Company Description	The aim of the Shell Business Operations is to provide the Group with operational excellence through highlighting and utilizing process improvements and functional efficiencies as well as by leveraging economies of scale. Currently, the Chennai centre provides a wide range of finance, accounting and business services to Shell operating companies across several business sectors globally. Set up in September 2007, the Chennai centre has grown rapidly and now , in its fourth year of operations , it has crossed the 1600 staff mark. The centre is located in the  RMZ Millennia Business Park, where the Shell campus is a LEED Platinum building with world class infrastructure. The business is expected to grow further over the next two years and infrastructural additions to support this have been planned. The main focus in Chennai is on Finance Operations which supports delivery of the global Finance functional plan. There is also a ‘Downstream India’ - Customer Services Team that handles lubricant depot ordering within the country. The Shell Business Operations (SBO Team) manages the centre facilities and supports business partners’ operations on site. There is a strong focus at SBO on safety & well being of staff and on its three core values: Compliance, Intervention & Respect.
Job Description	The role is designed for supporting and leading the delivery of activities carried out by the Manage Direct Tax team. It involves  individual contributor responsibilities as a reviewer & preparation of tax returns of certain material legal entities. It also provides a very good exposure towards stakeholder management as well as Direct tax compliance and Group reporting. More specifically, the accountabilities include the following -• Business/process responsibilities and metrics : Deliver on time and accurate tax reports, returns and payments for migrated activity and tax provision for all businesses in various tax jurisdictions [Countries] and adherence to the managerial metrics of the process; Understand and operate various tax provisioning/compliance tools; Understand Group Accounting and Reporting changes and enable incorporation of such changes and in the process as may be relevant; Co-ordinate/support for tax audits as well as support for resolving all audit queries; Provide steer and oversight for updation and maintenance of Key tax assumptions and Work Instructions & Training framework to reduce time to delivery to optimal levels (typically 3 months); Lead and manage and transition additional/new scope migrations of MDT activities.   https://infinitehunter.com/flipkart-hiring-businessanalyst-profile/ • Team management, engagement planning and resourcing : Support continuous professional development and good practices in MDT; Proactively engage with Business and Country tax teams to enable business knowledge sharing with the MDT team and help embed into processes as relevant; Keeps abreast of Business developments and Business performance drivers; Support in ensuring clear roles and responsibilities and compliance with segregation of duties/authorities across team; Planning of staffing vis-à-vis work assignments/projects/cross team projects etc in an optimal manner and evaluate resourcing requirements on an ongoing basis. • CI responsibilities: Continuous focus on improvement opportunities (ESSA) in process & content, identify & actions opportunities to reduce complexity, promote best practices, provide focus on financial issues & achieve operational excellence; Pursue identification & implementation of CI project pipeline and aid in achieving the process targets. • Stakeholder management: Ensure correct and timely escalations of process exceptions or tolerance/variances and their resolution; Proactively engage and maintain strong stakeholder and business connectivity;
Requirements	Recognized professional qualification and a member of a recognized accounting body with >5 years’ broad professional experience. Work experience of migrated tax / finance activity in multinational companies or professional firms would be   preferable.                                                                               [or] Bachelors / Masters in Finance degree with >8 years’ broad professional experience out of which minimum 6 years of experience in migrated tax / finance activity in multinational companies or professional firms. Working knowledge of various ERP systems used in Shell Group and excellent MS Office skills. Good understanding of Control Frameworks, controls in a tax environment and tax accounting under GAAP and/or IFRS. Effective influencing skills and communicator of complex tax compliance issues; both written and oral.
No. of Positions	1, Location: Chennai
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