Himanshu Ratra

• Responsible for preparing working papers for Sales and Use tax.
• Preparing Blackline reconciliations for direct tax and Sale and Use tax liability accounts and estimating/remitting quarterly federal and state tax payments.
• Pull sales reports,file monthly,quarterly or yearly returns before deadlines.
• Manage customers and their exemptions.
• Train new billing staff,answer questions and troubleshoot issues from billers. Work with billers to make necessary corrections.
• Maintain user accounts for each state and address notices regarding late or missing payments from states.
• Record monthly payments to the state through journal entries.
• Keep comprehensive records of returns and payments.

Tax associate working in US direct tax profile. Skilled in preparation and review of US corporate tax returns along with associated schedules. Responsible for completing reconciliation.

• Prepared and reviewed the book to tax adjustments and generated various reports.
• Assisted in the review of tax provisions collaborating closely with inter team members to ensure accurate and timely reporting.
• Responded to and resolved CTO inquiries and concerns regarding tax issues.
• Preparation of trial balance reconciliation and tax basis balancesheet.
• Working knowledge of tools like One Source, One Stream, Oracle and MSTR.

Computation and deposition of TDS liability on work day three after the closure of the preceding month for Whirlpool of India Limited, Whirlpool Asia LLP & Whirlpool India Holding Limited.

• Collaborated with cross functional teams like treasury on the last day of the month informing estimated liability and optimizing the availability of funds.
• Led and supervised and AP team for tax accounting in SAP with respect to journal entries relevant to payments and tax deduction.
• Furnishing the quarterly TDS returns (24Q,26Q,27Q and 27EQ) before due date.
• Guiding the AP team, and vendors about the applicability of withholding taxes, and changes in tax laws alongside interpretation of double taxation avoidance agreements.
• Ensuring clearing of all TDS related GL's with payment entry.
• Actively preparing the audit schedules and taking part in completion of tax audits.
• Drove operational improvements by sending the withholding tax certificates via online mode to all stake holders leading to savings of 80K (Quarterly).
• Saved 8 million by resolving the long standing liability by revising the returns of all the entities that were previously filed with errors.

Handled the entire accounting, taxation, audit, MIS, and foreign payment for client companies.

• Maintaining the books of accounts along with processing payments of creditors and timely followup with debtors on the basis of customer aging.
• Maintaining fixed assets register for the calculation of depreciation.
• Bank reconciliation and preparation of provisional balancesheet.
• Inter company reconciliation, processing the reimbursements.
• Compliance with income tax act and Goods and Service tax act.
• Independently driving the audits.