Tax Manager

Summary

Join Arista Networks as a Tax Manager, working remotely or from our Pune or Bangalore offices, reporting to the Tax Director in California. 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 flexibility and offers a high degree of autonomy. Responsibilities include preparing quarterly tax provisions, assisting with tax return preparation and filing, supporting statutory financial statement preparation, managing GST/VAT compliance, providing business support for tax 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. A strong analytical mindset, excellent communication skills, and proficiency with Microsoft Office and accounting software are essential.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• Chartered Accountant tax qualification
• 5+ years of relevant tax experience
• 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 process 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 APAC (Asia Pacific), and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) subsidiary companies and perform profitability analytics
• Assist in the preparation/review and filing of corporate income tax returns for the APAC and EMEA subsidiaries, ensuring timely payment of tax liabilities, and booking accounting journals for same. Assist in audit enquiries on such filings
• Assist in the APAC and EMEA subsidiaries statutory financial statement preparation, and where relevant, the audit of such subsidiaries
• Quarterly GST/VAT returns, balance sheet reconciliations, and associated journal entries for APAC and EMEA subsidiaries. In many cases this will involve working with local service providers
• Assist with Business support for GST/VAT 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 APAC and EMEA 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 with US multinational Technology companies 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)