SOUMIK DEYE-mail: soumik1967.dey@gmail.com ~ Mobile: +91-9903142090

Manager – Indirect Taxation – Well versed and experienced in handling Indirect taxation matters, Sales Accounts, Credit control, Dealer incentive claims management and Administrative matters

With a rich experience of over 26 years in indirect taxation and sales accounting and administrative matters I am in quest of Regional/National level profile in Indirect Taxation, Sales Accounts, Dealer

Development, etc.Industry Preference: Automobile, FMCG, Telecom, Banking, ITES, Insurance and Others

Professional Profile

Presently working as Manager – Indirect Taxation with Tata Motors Limited and posted at its Regional office in Kolkata, West Bengal. Tata Motors Ltd. is the leading manufacturer of commercial vehicles in India and also exports its vehicles to many countries in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and South Africa. It also manufactures passenger vehicles and is among the top passenger car manufacturers in the country.

Have been consistently rated as high performer in last 5 performance appraisals with an ‘exceptional contribution’ rating in two of the cycles.

Key Responsibilities :

From Jan 2014 till date :

Responsible for all Indirect Tax matters in the Eastern Region which presently includes 10 states.

Responsibility includes payments and submission of returns, issuance and collection of statutory forms, completion of assessments, filing of appeals if required before the appellate authorities, providing information and clarifications to business in indirect tax matters, etc.

Also responsible for Service tax payment and compliance for our operations in Odisha and Professional tax matters in all the states

Presently a team member of the taxation group which is overseeing the preparatory actions being taken by the company for implementation GST in the near future

Compliance: Leading a team including consultants / advocates for ensuring that all Indirect tax matters are complied with in all the states. Also ensuring compliance to applicable tax and commercial laws.

From April 2005 till Dec 2013 :

Commercial Vehicle Business Unit, Eastern Region, Kolkata

Receivables and Credit Control: Managing receivables and credit control through regular review, follow- up for realization from STU, Key Customers thus ensuring timely collection and adherence to the Credit Policy of the company

Review of Regional office operations for Sales Finance for Commercial vehicles

Audit Facilitation: Ensuring statutory & internal audit and prompt resolution of issues identified by them.

Dealer training: conducting training for the dealers in accounts & finance giving an overview of TML operations for transparent and robust dealer accounts.

Dealership Accounts / Finance Functions & Performance Review: Overall working capital management of dealers, retail finance support and reconciliation of dealer accounts, settling of dealers claims and handling the various operational issues. Also part of the CFT for reviewing dealership overall performance.

MIS : Preparing and analyzing the financial MIS on incentive payout reports to facilitate decision-making.

Core StrengthsHands on experience in Indirect tax

mattersSales accounting processes: FI

Module in SAPTraining of accounts personnel of

dealershipsReceivables and credit control

Incentive management of dealerships

Dealership Accounts/ Finance Functions & Performance Review

Statutory compliancesMIS

Team Building & Motivation

From Aug’89 till April 2005 :

Telco Sales and Service - Bhubaneshwar- Orissa

Finance & Accounts function of TSS, Bhubaneshwar : established process for retail sale, collection and exception based control for company retail outlet.

Receivables management of vehicle sales by TSS, Orissa : This included collection and deposit of payments received from individual customers, Bank Reconciliation and monitoring of outstandings.

Claim processing - Processing of refunds, discounts and interest payments to individual vehicle customers

Sales Tax : Filing of sales tax and entry tax returns of all sales ( vehicles and spares ) from the state of Orissa and personally attending sales tax assessments and hearings.

Imprest accounting of all expenses for the State of Orissa

MIS : Preparation of monthly profitability statement of TSS operations

Administration : Carrying out administrative work of TSS including liasioning with Factory Inspector, Electrical inspector, Environment agencies and Labour Office for renewal of licenses of TSS

Statutory Compliance Ensuring statutory compliance of all operations of TSS, Orissa with government authorities

Major Accomplishments

Independently handling Indirect Taxation matters of 10 states in the Eastern Region Reconciliation of dealer accounts of all 53 dealers in the eastern region and obtaining a ‘no dues

certificate’ from each one of them – This included the reconciliation and settlement of claims of dealers pending since the last 10 years.

Regularly providing ‘single window service’ to our ‘customers’ viz Dealers, with respect to all queries raised by them relating to sales accounts and their account reconciliation

Analyzing and reporting on the financial health of the dealerships and giving timely indications to both the company and the dealerships on the steps to be taken for improving their performance.

Played an important role in the conversion of our sales and accounting records from the ‘legacy’ based system to SAP based system during the year 2000.

PERSONAL INSIGHT AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Date of birth : 08.09.1967

Date of joining Tata Motors Ltd. : 04.08.1989

Period of work in TML Dist. Co Ltd. : October 2008 to December 2013

Date of joining back Tata Motors Ltd. : January 2014

Educational qualification : Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management

ICWAI – Passed IntermediatePassed Group I of finals

B Com ( Hons ) – Calcutta University