Tax Manager

Summary

Join Arista Networks as a Tax Manager, working remotely or from our Pune or Bangalore offices, reporting to the California-based Tax Director. You will be an integral part of the International Tax Team, supporting the business and collaborating with colleagues and partners across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. This role demands and offers significant flexibility. Responsibilities include preparing quarterly corporate income tax provisions, assisting with tax return preparation and filing, participating in APA discussions, contributing to financial statement preparation, handling GST returns, providing business support for GST matters, reviewing transfer pricing reports, minimizing withholding taxes, and presenting on tax topics to the wider accounting team. The position requires a Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, a Chartered Accountant tax qualification, and 5+ years of relevant tax experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• Chartered Accountant tax qualification
• 5+ years of relevant tax experience with a Big 4 firm or with US multinational technology companies
• Adaptable to changing requirements and with a focus on continuous process improvement for what is a dynamic environment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and advanced excel skills
• Excellent attention to detail and experience contributing to internal controls and processes enhancements
• Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must be able to perform well under pressure, juggle multiple priorities, while meeting tight deadlines
• Ability to build excellent working relations within a dispersed environment
• Due to the international nature of the role, a high degree of flexibility will be offered and required
• It may include some part of the working week being in same time zone as California, USA

Responsibilities

• Prepare quarterly corporate income tax provisions for India subsidiary companies and perform profitability analytics
• Assist in the preparation and filing of corporate income tax returns for the Indian subsidiaries, ensuring timely payment of tax liabilities, booking accounting journals for same
• Assist in Indian Revenue Audit enquiries on filings
• Assist in Bi-lateral APA discussions with Indian APA Commissioner, and prepare documentation in response to data requests
• Assist in the statutory financial statement preparation, and where relevant, the audit, of the Indian subsidiaries
• Quarterly GST returns, balance sheet reconciliations, and associated journal entries, for Indian subsidiaries
• In many cases this will involve working with local service providers
• Assist with Business support for GST matters from Sales & AR team such as taxability of sales orders/invoices & credit memos
• Provide data for, and subsequently review, Transfer Pricing Reports for the Indian subsidiaries
• Work with customers to minimise withholding taxes and ensure appropriate documentation is provided to allow for recoverability or credit for amounts withheld as appropriate
• Present to the wider accounting team on tax topics necessary for their role, or for wider understanding of how the Arista group tax structure works etc
• Other associated compliance duties

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry experience is an advantage
• Experience of working with large data set, utilizing vlookup, index/match and Pivot Table to analyse data, identify exceptions etc. is an advantage
• Proficiency with accounting software (experience of NetSuite would be an advantage but is not essential)