Tax Department Coordinator & Direct Tax Professional – Tax Operations & Compliance

Job Description

Tax Associate – Level I | Cummins

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Cummins, located in India. Cummins is a global power leader that designs, manufactures, distributes, and services engines and related technologies. This role is vital for ensuring the efficient coordination of tax department production, maintaining accurate tax compliance, and supporting the financial integrity of the organization.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person India (Maharashtra)

• Team: Tax Department
• Mission: To coordinate tax department production, ensure compliance with direct tax regulations, and provide essential administrative support to the tax staff.
• Tech Stack: Oracle accounting system

What You’ll Actually Do
• Coordinate tax department production: Oversee the coordination of all Tax Department production activities, including populating budget hours, monitoring tax jobs, following up with preparers and managers, and generating production reports.
• Manage direct tax compliance workflows: Participate in tax department workflow procedures covering tax return processing and assembly, e-files, document scanning and uploading, routings, rejections, reports, and deadlines.
• Perform TDS/TCS and broader compliance: Execute TDS/TCS compliance tasks such as monthly health checks, ensuring correct liability discharge, supporting return filings, and resolving supplier queries, while also managing end-to-end direct tax compliances including advance tax, tax audit, and income tax return filings.
• Prepare tax computations and provisions: Develop and review corporate tax computations, deferred tax workings, and tax provisions essential for accurate financial reporting.
• Support tax assessments and audits: Assist in completing income tax assessments, reassessments, appeals, and handling notices from tax authorities, coordinating closely with internal stakeholders and external consultants for compliance and litigation matters.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Entry-level direct tax professional with a two-year University degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field, or semi-qualified CA/CWA, possessing knowledge of income tax compliance, return filing, tax assessments, and tax research.
• Experience: 3-4 years of relevant experience in TDS/TCS compliance, end-to-end direct tax compliances including advance tax and tax audits, corporate tax computations, and assisting with income tax assessments and departmental proceedings.
• Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to build networks and collaborate effectively; ensures accountability for commitments; sound understanding of financial internal controls; actively seeks self-development and nimble learning.
• Bonus: Hands-on experience working with the Oracle accounting system.