Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across regimes, allowing end users to have actionable intelligence on a single platform. At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception (data collection), comprehension (data processing), and prediction (analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects (RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.

We are seeking a proactive Tax Manager to join our team. In this role, you will lead the tax and regulatory functions, ensuring compliance with direct and indirect taxes, customs duties, and international trade regulations while collaborating with multiple departments to optimise costs and mitigate risks. You will play a pivotal role in managing audits, advising on tax strategies, and driving process improvements to ensure seamless financial operations and compliance across the organisation

Why Us?

• Competitive incentives, galvanising workspace, blazing team—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup + you get to work on space technology.

• Hustle in a well-funded startup that allows you to take charge of your responsibilities and create your own moonshot.

Responsibilities:

• Assists in day-to-day functioning of the tax and regulatory within the finance team

• Manage TDS, TCS, Equalisation Levy, GST compliances, Form 15CA/ CB, RBI compliances etc for all group companies

• Responsible for managing all aspects of customs duties and compliances related to international trade

• Work closely with other departments, mainly logistics, supply chain, legal, and finance, to optimize duty costs, mitigate risk, and ensure timely and accurate reporting

• Identify and evaluate opportunities for customs duty optimisation, including Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), Duty Drawback programs, and other strategies.

• Manage and document transfer pricing policies and ensure compliance with local and international regulations.

• Provide tax advice on ad-hoc business issues or projects as needed.

• Advise on the tax implications of corporate structure, including business operations, investments, and joint ventures.

• Participate in planning on imports to structure the customs duty

• Reconciliations of input tax credit under GST, TDS reconciliations other reconciliations required under different tax laws

• Lead group international tax compliances

• Support on review and negotiation of contracts from an overall tax, commercial, finance and regulatory perspective

• Lead discussions and coordination with external consultants, lawyers, and tax & regulatory authorities, including meetings and representations on behalf of the company

• Coordinate with consultants for audits, diligences, tax audits, internal audits, transfer pricing certifications, etc. Ensure expenses are booked in the correct entity.

• Collecting and analysing various accounting / operational data to prepare monthly reports, reconciliations, etc.

• Identify and drive automation and process improvements, including creating standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, quick reference summary dashboards, etc.

• Analyse financial data – and create optimal operating models for supporting decision-making.

• Understand the economics, metrics, and drivers of costs and share leads on potential opportunities to optimise costs.

• Design and administer internal controls over tax and financial reporting, including process controls.

• Ensure processes are lean, agile, and organised to enable relevant stakeholders to focus on making timely and accurate decisions.

Required Qualifications:

• The person is expected to take hands-on initiatives and lead and execute activities in his/her areas with minimum supervision/monitoring or assistance.

• Should be a problem solver, take the initiative, and proactively reach out to stakeholders to solve deadlocks/issues.

• The ideal candidate should have completed CA articleship training and 5-7 years of working experience in tax, accounting, and finance, preferably in a Big4 firm.

• Should have in-depth knowledge of corporate tax, international tax, indirect taxes, and accounting standards

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Integrity, with an ability to handle confidential information

• Ability to multitask and manage expectations of relevant stakeholders from time to time

• Should have a positive attitude, be a good team player, be willing to learn, and be flexible to adapt to varied roles within the finance function

General Requirements:

• Ability to work in a mission-focused, operational environment

• Ability to think critically and make independent decisions

• Interpersonal skills to enable working in a diverse and dynamic team

• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule

• Writing and delivering technical documents and briefings

• Verbal and written communication skills, as well as organisational skills

• Travel occasionally as necessary