Manager, Taxation & Billing

•    Reporting of trades / corporation action to the tax consultants
•    Reconciliation of reporting to the tax consultants
•    Obtaining tax certificates from tax consultants
•    Providing non repatriable balance to General Banking team
•    Discharging the tax liability of the client
•    Invoice calculation and generation for clients
•    Dispatching invoices to clients
•    Fee receipts record for clients
•    GST compliance

•    Handling client / tax consultant queries
•    Assist team leader / section head in assignments / projects
•    Reporting to tax consultants
•    Follow up with tax consultants for tax certificates
•    Invoicing to clients

Strategy
•    To ensure the job holder is fully aware of all the laid down controls, procedures and regulatory requirements and achieve established targeted standards of productivity and client services
•    Ensure that all the client reporting requirements, response to client queries are performed within the time frames specified to achieve client satisfaction.
•    Endeavour to reduce the turnaround time.
•    Keep the Head Operations advised of the regular operations and, escalate exceptional occurrences, to enable appropriate action and report high volumes, problems & exceptions from the normal.

Business
•    Monitoring of transactions to be reported to tax consultants.
•    Interaction with the Client(s) Tax Consultants, for all relevant tax matters.
•    Routine Tax consultant reporting.
•    GST compliance.
•    Generating Invoices for recovery of fees from Custody clients

Processes
•    Monitoring the team and ensuring that reporting of the trades ie the purchase and sales transactions, corporate actions, cash movements which will impact the tax position of the client is done to the tax consultants on a daily basis.
•    Ensuring that the team responds within time the queries raised by the tax consultant with respect to the purchase and sales executed by the client, taxes paid by the client or any other requirement like the bank statements, NSDL statements 
•    Ensuring that daily follow up daily for the tax certificates required from the tax consultants for the sales trades executed by the clients and ensuring that the certificates are received in time to avoid any delay in repatriation of the funds

•    Procedures laid down in DOI are adequately followed
•    To review procedures and identify process improvements and implement changes as and where required.
•    Ensure that the regular conduct of operations adhere to the Key Control Standards 
•    Ensure changes impacting the operations are implemented in the unit.
•    Ensure invoices are sent to the client as per the agreed time frame

People & Talent
•    To maintain good relationship with the officials of the Tax Consultants and Tax Payee banks.
•    To maintain a positive working relationship with personnel of the other Sections/Divisions of the Bank 
•    Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
•    Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
•    Employ, engage and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.
•    Responsibility to review team structure/ capacity plans
•    Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports an provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives

Risk Management
•    Responsibilities relating to identifying, assessing, monitoring, controlling and mitigating risks to the Group, as well as an awareness and understanding of the main risks facing the Group and the role the individual plays in managing them. Act as the [Process] risk control owner under the Group’s Risk Management Framework (including relevant Operational Risk Framework ownership for [Liquidity] risk. 
•    To report any suspicious transactions immediately as per the laid down procedures

Governance
•    Responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the Group’s arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the business and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas; Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role
•    Ensure that all procedures laid down in the Departmental Operating Instructions are adequately followed.
•    Completion of all Mandatory Risk & Training and related Compliance activities by the set deadlines.

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders
Within SS 
•    Trade support & Fixed Income for matching of trades and trade relating queries, General banking teams for Repat and Payment of Taxes, Corporate Action team for benefits related queries, Account Documentation Static Data & DDP team for Maintenance of Fee Schedules FPI Certificates and NOC Maintenance - SI Updating, 

•    Outside SS BAM/client solution for client requirement/queries, India tax team for tax queries,

External
•    Liaising with Tax consultants, peer custodians.

•    Graduate / Post Graduate Degree
•    NISM VI & VII certification
•    Managerial and Interpersonal skills.
•    An extremely detailed knowledge of banking operations as well internal accounting procedures.
•    A working knowledge of Securities operations.
•    Detailed knowledge of the Stock Exchange Bye Laws (NSE and BSE) and Clearing Corporation Bye laws, Rules and Regulations

•    Experience in Securities Services - Banking operations for at least 2 years 
•    Direct interaction with TC with respect to NOC’s
•    Communication Skills
•    People Skills
•    Relationship Management
•    Digital Knowledge
•    Customer Management

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• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
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