Business Traveler Tax Analyst - Transferee Tax

As a Business Traveler Tax Analyst, you will play a key role in managing the tax implications of international business travel across more than 20 countries annually.

Working closely with the Transferee Tax Group, you will ensure compliance with tax regulations, minimize risk, and provide seamless support to business travelers. In this role, you will monitor the travel of international business travelers and ensure payroll withholding and compliance in multiple countries. You will collaborate with advisors and local payroll teams to ensure accurate payroll withholding for impacted business travelers, while also reviewing and reconciling income tax and gross-up tax calculations. Additionally, you will work with tax advisors on year-end compliance processes, which include finalizing authorization lists, providing compensation details, resolving queries, and ensuring the timely filing of tax returns and reconciliations.

Your responsibilities will also include managing foreign tax credit claims in home locations for business travelers and coordinating with various stakeholders, such as local payrolls, external advisors, the Partner Accounting Team, and the Compensation group, to ensure effective communication and collaboration. You will communicate with impacted business travelers to provide clarity and guidance on tax-related matters and support additional projects as assigned from time to time. Your work will help ensure that McKinsey’s business traveler program operates efficiently, enabling colleagues to focus on delivering impact for clients.

You will be based in Gurgaon as part of the Transferee Tax Group, a global team of 24 professionals split across Gurgaon and London. This team provides strategic tax counsel, operational excellence, and seamless collaboration with other firm functions to support international mobility and business travel.

You will be based in our Gurugram office and will be working with the Transferee Tax team in Gurugram and London. The Group is responsible for the tax consequences relating to business travelers in more than 20 countries each year. They are led by the Leader of Transferee Tax based in London and have 24 team members split across two locations.

In particular, the Transferee Tax Group provides counsel to firm leadership and to individual transferees and ensures that tax expertise is used to deliver a high value strategic international mobility programme to the firm. The group also facilitates the international transfer of Partners and other staff by communicating the tax consequences of international mobility to transferees and assisting their transition into the new tax and delivery system. They deliver operational excellence in terms of tax support, approach and services for participants in the firm’s mobility programs and are also involved in monitoring and managing the tax implications of international business travelers. In addition to this, this group collaborates with other firm functions in a close virtual team (e.g. with Mobility, Benefits, Payroll, Accounting and Finance, Legal and Human Resources) as well as with sending and receiving offices and external advisors.

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