We're hiring for the profile of AGM – GST & INDIRECT TAX
Location: Bhiwadi, Rajasthan (Plant-based role)
Reporting To: Head of Accounts
Responsibility: All six manufacturing plants
Working days- 6 days working
Budget- 30 LPA (Fixed)
Industry required- Manufacturing and Automobile
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
A. GST Compliance and Statutory Governance
• Own end-to-end GST compliance across all applicable registrations, plants and business entities.
• Ensure accurate and timely filing of GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, annual returns, reconciliations and other applicable statutory filings.
• Establish a centralized statutory compliance calendar covering all plants.
• Ensure accurate tax treatment of purchases, sales, inter-plant supplies, job work, imports, exports and other transactions.
• Monitor compliance exceptions and ensure timely corrective action.
• Establish common GST SOPs, documentation requirements and review mechanisms.
• Monitor changes in legislation, rules, notifications, circulars and judicial developments.
B. Input Tax Credit Management
• Ensure accurate determination, availment, utilization and reversal of eligible ITC.
• Establish robust reconciliations between purchase records, SAP, GSTR-2B and GST returns.
• Identify and resolve vendor-related mismatches, documentation deficiencies and credit restrictions.
• Monitor unreconciled, blocked, disputed and potentially time-barred credits.
• Work with procurement and vendors to resolve compliance-related ITC issues.
• Prevent recurring credit losses through system and process improvements.
C. Manufacturing, Job Work and Inter-Plant Taxation
• Ensure appropriate GST treatment of inter-plant and inter-unit supplies.
• Handle transactions involving separate GST registrations and legal entities.
• Establish controls for job work, subcontracting, machining, heat treatment, plating and other outsourced manufacturing processes.
• Ensure proper documentation and reconciliation of materials sent to and received from job workers.
• Monitor applicable statutory timelines and job-work reporting requirements.
The candidate must understand how GST requirements interact with actual manufacturing operations and material movement.
D. Exports, Imports and Customs
• Manage GST requirements relating to export transactions and zero-rated supplies.
• Ensure compliance with LUT and applicable export procedures.
• Manage export-related GST refunds and accumulated ITC.
• Identify and resolve delays or deficiencies in refund claims.
• Handle applicable customs and import-related tax matters, including import IGST, classification and valuation.
• Evaluate relevant export incentive schemes and associated compliance obligations.
• Coordinate with commercial teams, logistics, customs brokers and external specialists.
E. GST Notices, Audits and Litigation
• Independently manage GST notices, departmental audits, assessments, investigations and disputes.
• Examine allegations and demands, investigate underlying transactions and establish the legal position.
• Prepare or substantively lead technically sound responses supported by documentary evidence.
• Coordinate with external tax counsel while retaining personal ownership of the matters.
• Maintain a central register of notices, demands, appeals, hearings, statutory deadlines and financial exposures.
F. SAP, ERP and Preventive Controls
• Review GST-related SAP configuration and transaction-processing controls.
• Ensure appropriate master data, tax codes, HSN classification, GSTIN details and place of-supply treatment.
• Identify recurring tax errors arising from procurement, inventory, dispatches, invoicing and accounting.
• Establish systematic reconciliations and exception reporting.
• Coordinate with SAP/IT and operating teams to implement corrective measures.
• Introduce preventive checks at the transaction stage wherever practical.
G. Tax Risk Management and Continuous Improvement
• Identify indirect tax risks before they become financial losses, departmental objections or compliance failures.
• Conduct periodic risk reviews across all plants.
• Investigate recurring issues through structured root-cause analysis.
• Establish corrective and preventive actions with defined owners and deadlines.
• Monitor whether corrective actions remain effective.
• Reduce dependence on manual corrections and external consultants.
• Participate early in evaluating the indirect tax implications of new projects, investments, sourcing decisions and business arrangements.
