PANKAJ KUMAR SAINI
Tax Analyst
Delhi,DELHI
Summary
The individual has 7.2 years of experience in various domains, including Global Mobility, Project Management, Global Taxation, Compensation & Benefits Management, Audit, Consulting, and Indirect Taxation. They possess a strong background in finance and accounts, compensation, benefits, and taxation. As an achievement-driven executive, they are skilled in organizational operations, budget management, and performing under high-pressure situations. They focus on values, corporate objectives, and strategic planning to drive business growth. Additionally, they have experience in client interfacing, leveraging technology for better decision-making, and team leadership. They are seeking new opportunities to contribute to an organization.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Associate Compliance Operations
Amazon Development Centre
Bangalore, Karnataka
05.2021 - 02.2024
- Key Result Areas
- Trade Compliance operations role with respect to various products under diverse catalogues of Amazon
- Project management skills:
- Conduct reconciliation of invoices for consultant payments
- Timely verification and reporting of Statutory Contributions such as Social Security and Taxes
- Review and reconcile of statuary docs, including labor, IT, PT
- Ensure accurate payroll deliverables
- Collaborate with vendor teams to review and reconcile processed payrolls
- Conduct thorough invoice reconciliation for consultant payments
- Coordinate with the Finance team to reconcile payments and manage fund allocation for both employees and consultants
- Timely reporting and verification of Statutory Contributions such as Social Security and Taxes
- Review and reconcile notices from government departments, including labor, IT, PT, etc
- Work together with the Operations team to reconcile payments
- Operational Skills:
- Collation and analysis of daily, weekly and monthly errors across various teams and associates
- Monthly catch-up and team meetings to address the issues and corrective, protective measures with 5 Why Analysis (Root Cause)
- Leverage data for ad-hoc refresher sessions and continuous improvement
- Monitoring & auditing data to ensure accuracy and iron out calibration issues
- Providing inputs with reference to cross rulings
- Explanatory notes & GRI’s to reach desired result
- Allocation of products across different teams with respect to allocation and triggering of missing data from the upstream
- Analysis on projected data
- Maintaining workflow, SOP, updated to address process gaps and on-floor alignment
- Daily sprints & connects with stakeholder on process alignment and change management
- Working on Database and data visualization using Power BI, Tableau, SQL and Pandas
- Achievements and Appreciations/Rave:
- EY Exceptional client service award for 2019 and 2020
- EY Pasathon annual award 2020
- Time to time appreciation from stake holders.
Advance Analyst PAS Tax GCAS Global Mobility Tax
Ernst Young GDS
Bangalore, Karnataka
Jan.2017 - May.2021
- Key Result Areas
- Project Management Skills:
- Maintain team competence by ensuring team skills or knowledge gaps are met with appropriate training and development
- Managed engagements of sectors related to Publishing, Telecom, Journalism, Beverage, EY GBS, Manufacturing, etc
- An effective Team member with strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- A thorough professional with a proactive attitude, capable of thinking in and out of the box, generating new design solutions and ideas
- Identify process improvement opportunities and assist users in transition to new business processes like - tools and utilities
- Centralized contact for Tax teams, Vendors, Client Mobility and Tax for Americas, EMEA, APAC
- Managed engagement matrix based on resourcing, Time and Profitability
- Operations Skills:
- Functioning as a part of the Tax-Global Compensation Services (GCS) Team that manages services for multinational companies who send employees to work & live in another country
- Collating & and providing information on an employee’s pay & benefits to create a central global repository of total compensation data
- Rendering tax assistance and social security compliance to employees in their respective mobility locations by advising, instructing, analyzing and timely reporting of the worldwide compensation earned by the employees
- Developing detailed report of analysis for seniors and auditing multiple data sources for quality assurance
- Functioning as an expert in all functions of the Expatriate Compensation Services including cost projections, global compensation accumulation, global payroll and other related global compensation services
- Initiating payroll request to the client and requesting compensation data
- Processing the compensation data in order to instruct client through payroll instructions (Crossover, Allocation expense
- Shadow payroll, Pension details and Tax)
- Collating compensation data queries from local payroll teams across EMEA, APAC & AMERICAS countries
- Coordinating with Tax Teams across EMEA, AMERICAS, APAC countries for tax calculations
- Performing P60, P45 & P11 D, Form 16, W3 reconciliation, Income and deductions analysis for year-end compensation reporting
- Delivering training to the teams across UK and India about new techniques of data analysis
- Carried out quarterly & year-end reviews for engagements on the compensation data and provided inputs to client
- Process shadow payroll where ever applicable and ensure compliance
- Conduct in-depth research to identify leading practices and propose program enhancements to optimize mobility initiatives
- Oversee expatriate payroll operations across multiple countries and regions, ensuring accurate and timely processing
- Collaborate with stakeholders to generate monthly payroll input files tailored to individual compensation and benefits entitlements
- Manage the annual review process for expatriate salaries and allowances in alignment with international assignment policies
- Administer expatriate allowance forms, ensuring compliance with eligibility criteria and approving submissions accordingly
- Track post-payroll activities and deliver monthly reports to stakeholders, providing insights and recommendations
- Conduct shadow payroll exercises and review tax calculations to ensure accuracy and compliance
- Establish payroll processes for new countries visited by expatriates, ensuring seamless integration and adherence to regulations
- Lead year-end activities, including data collection and validation for assignee income, and collaborate with tax consultants to address queries
- Prepare authorization lists for tax return processes and manage tax notices, collaborating with vendors to resolve issues efficiently
- Reconcile tax refunds and ensuring financial accuracy
- Ensure timely application and submission of certificate of coverages to relevant authorities
- Cultivate strong relationships with mobility partners to address support and service issues promptly and effectively
- Serve as a point of contact for employee inquiries related to payroll and taxation, delivering timely and accurate support in line with service level agreements
- Vendor Management:
- Ownership of global contact lists of external vendors related to immigration, relocation and taxation for international assignments to provide updated list to the worldwide client contacts
- To support global finance and tax teams on various reporting needs for the international programs by liaising as a single point of contact from mobility services both for external vendors and worldwide client contacts
- Billing and Invoicing:
- Vendor Invoicing – Reviewing of processed invoices based on the bills submitted by the assignee who is on Assignment and keeping the engagement team posted
- Funding Request – Reviewing the FR’s prepared based on Invoices
- We Process FR after the approval for reimbursements.
Education
MBA - Finance
B.Com -
Skills
- A dynamic professional with rich experience in delivering value to organizations by strategy planning, auditing, data collation & analysis
- And converting challenges into opportunities and ensuring client satisfaction during the career span
- Core Skills:
- Global Taxation Compensation & Benefits Management Audit and Consulting
- Quality Assurance Client Servicing Finance & Accounts
- Customs and Tariff
- Project Management
- CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Dexterously streamlined the processes to suit the client’s needs by challenging the existing procedures, thereby improving client
- Satisfaction and winning the market
- Gained knowledge about various tools (Data Analysis) and used the knowledge for automation & smoothening data gathering
- From client
- Perform project tracking through clear and concise status reports and time management reports; proactively identify potential
- Issues and track project member progress against commitments Learn from recent projects to identify and recommend
- Improvements, cost saving initiatives, and substitutions to positively impact current and future project budget or schedule
Languages
Timeline
Senior Associate Compliance Operations - Amazon Development Centre
05.2021 - 02.2024
Advance Analyst PAS Tax GCAS Global Mobility Tax - Ernst Young GDS
Jan.2017 - May.2021
University of Pune - MBA, Finance
Meerut University - B.Com,
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