Senior Accountant, Tax

Job highlights

• 5-7 years in tax and accounting with Big 4 or large firm experience, expertise in Indian direct tax, transfer pricing, statutory compliance, and global intercompany accounting
• Manage tax compliance and audits for India and Singapore, lead statutory audits, handle global intercompany accounting and transfer pricing, coordinate outsourced partners, support payroll and cash flow management, and drive finance process improvements

Role & responsibilities :

We are looking for people with international exposure on taxation. Direct taxation and International taxation experience is a must.

Tax, audit and corporate governance

• Compliance with local tax laws and statutory filings: India (GST, corporate income tax, TDS and withholding tax on cross-border payments including Section 195, Forms 15CA/15CB and DTAA relief, tax audit and Form 3CEB) and Singapore (GST Form 5, corporate tax and IRAS/ACRA filings).
• Internal coordination point for income tax and transfer pricing assessments across the groups entities currently India, Singapore, Sweden and Hong Kong.
• Lead the local annual audits and act as key contact for auditors – the India statutory audit and tax audit, and the Singapore statutory audit and XBRL filing.

Primary corporate governance contact for both locations: ROC/MCA and ACRA filings, board and director documentation, corporate secretarial matters, and FEMA/RBI and export-related compliance for the Indian entity.

Global intercompany accounting and transfer pricing

• Own the global intercompany cycle: monthly intercompany working files and internal billing file with intercompany sales and purchase invoices, and reconciling and settling balances with the entity owners.
• Monthly currency revaluation across all group entities.
• Support the group’s transfer pricing cycle – collating data for the group transfer pricing report, master file and local files, coordinating with external advisors on India-specific requirements, and making sure the agreed intercompany pricing is applied.

Outsourced partners and ways of working

• Manage, monitor and review the deliverables of third-party accounting and payroll firms, and act as the escalation point when their output needs correction or follow-up.
• Support transitions between service providers and the rollout of global finance systems, such as the global payroll platform implementation for India and Singapore.
• Payroll, Accounting, payments, cash and banking
  Together with the local People & Culture representative, act as the coordination point for outsourced payroll, authorising the payroll bank file and posting the payroll journals.
• Act as the escalation point when vendor output needs correction or follow-up.
• Weekly and monthly cash-flow forecasting and liquidity management, local banking relationships, and early flagging of funding requirements.
• Support the team with Month-end, quarter-end and year-end close for India and Singapore.

In addition you have the opportunity to

• Contribute to or own a defined global financial task, process or tool, agreed together with the Finance leadership team based on your knowledge, experience and interests.
• Bring new tools and ways of working into the function, including the use of AI and automation, to cut manual effort in reporting, reconciliation and compliance work.
• Grow the technical scope you handle directly as the processes settle.

Preferred candidate profile

Candidate profile

• Around 5-7 years of experience in tax and accounting, the majority of it gained in an audit, tax or accounting firm handling global clients – a Big 4 or other large accounting firm is preferred.
• Direct exposure to Indian direct tax, transfer pricing and statutory compliance, gained on cross-border or multinational clients.
• Experience supporting income tax and transfer pricing assessments in India – collating information, preparing data and reconciliations for responses to the tax authorities, and working alongside external advisors – including matters involving transfer pricing and international tax compliances.
• Familiarity with transfer pricing documentation in practice (local file, master file, Form 3CEB, benchmarking studies) and withholding tax on cross-border payments (Section 195, DTAA relief, Forms 15CA/15CB).
• Good working knowledge of Indian accounting, tax and statutory reporting requirements, and either exposure to Singapore requirements (GST, CPF, IRAS/ACRA filings) or a demonstrated ability to pick up a second jurisdiction quickly.
• Experience in a global, multi-entity organisation, with strong intercompany accounting and reconciliation experience and comfort coordinating across time zones and cultures.
• Quick to pick up new technology, and has actively tried AI tools in day-to-day work – we are interested in what you have used them for and what you learned.
• A real interest in improving how work gets done: spotting the manual and repetitive steps in a process and rethinking them.
• Comfortable with hands-on transactional work alongside compliance and reporting responsibilities, and self-starting without close daily supervision.
• Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Academic degree in Business Administration, Finance, or equivalent.
• Experience with an international ERP; Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a distinct advantage.
• Involvement in finance automation or process improvement work – reporting automation, workflow tools, ERP process changes, or similar.