US Tax

Kayur A. Thakrar

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 5th July 1978

Address: E-802 Nisarg Heaven CHSL,

Mahavir Nagar, Kandivali West

Mumbai 400067

Email: *****.*******@*****.***

Cell: 976-***-****

Profile

US Tax Compliance: Experience in handling various US Tax compliance (Federal and States): Individual, Partnership, Trusts and Corporations. Well worse with Foreign compliance like FBAR, 1042, 8805, 8621 and 5471 etc. Also domestic compliance like 1099s, SS4, W9 etc.

Business Analyst: Understanding and analyzing the business model within the organization with the peculiar requirements and process flow, documenting the same with the needed process flow and converting them with the technologies.

Developing and creating standard procedures for processing the business data to generate the required output and result.

Creating the business documents with the thorough analysis of different possibilities and developing the technological platform with the scenario analysis.

Understanding the various available data and organizing them for the needed business process flow and generating the output which is acceptable to Government Authorities.

Qualifications& Experience

Qualification

oCertified Public Accountant (AICPA - USA) (2009)

oFederal Taxation (RVCC - USA)(2007)

oBachelor of Commerce (Mumbai University)(2001)

EisnerAmper(India)Consultant Pvt. Ltd. Dec 2019 – Till Date

Responsible for delivering various Federal and State tax compliances.

Responsible for various Foreign compliances like 1042, FBAR

Handled delivery of various 1099s based on client requirement

Majorly worked on Hedge fund investments federal and state tax returns.

Handled Fund of funds returns with federal and state tax basis analysis.

Handle various foreign compliances related to partnership return like Form 5471, Form 8621 etc.

Worked on PE fund partnership federal and state tax returns.

Worked on Rental real estate partnership federal and state tax returns including various step up and tax termination issues.

Pricewaterhousecoopers Pvt. Ltd. 2Jan 2018 – July 2019 as Associate Director

oExperience (from 2Jan 2018 – July 2019)Associate Director

Launched web application for filling Individual expat Taxes

oLiaising with RM team, legal team, branding team and Finance team for approval with respect to application.

oCreate requirement document along with flow diagram for development of application

oLiaising with third party software developer for application development

oSet up payment gateway for user to pay online

oWorked on completing the User acceptance testing for go live approvals

oCreating requirement for phase II including requirement of mobile app for android and IOS platform

oPresentation to client about the tool and features.

Implementation of E way bill

oSuccessfully completed E way bill implementations on client site

oHelp Indirect tax team with demo tool and resolve client technical queries.

oProviding on boarding assistance to client and process automation as per the customized client need

oAssist client in designing UAT process

oSuggested technical points to development team for improving tool.

Designing and implementation of workflow for FII team

oDiscuss with various FII team members and understand the process and suggested few development point for process improvisation

oDiscuss with third party developer and provide automation requirement of FII team for preparation of Tax return, computation and notes to return.

oDescribe Document management system to help FII team to standardize the document management process as per the firm goal

oWorked on completing the User acceptance testing for go live approvals

EisnerAmper(India)Consultant Pvt. Ltd. 15 March 2016 -29th Dec 2017 as Tax Manager.

oExperience (from 15th March 2016 - 29th Dec 2017 )Tax Manager

Responsible for delivering various federal and state tax compliances.

Majorly worked on Hedge fund federal and state tax returns.

Handled Fund of funds returns with tax basis analysis.

Handle various foreign compliances related to partnership return like Form 5471, Form 8621 etc.

Worked on PE fund partnership federal and state tax returns.

Worked on Rental real estate partnership federal and state tax returns including various step up and tax termination issues.

General business partnership federal and state tax returns including various general business credit calculation

Transition new process like Form 990 (Non profit organization federal and state tax return), Form 5500 compliances.

Also helped US team for various auxiliary compliances like, Form 1099, Form 1042 foreign filling, and FATCA compliances.

PwC Mumbai from July2015 till March 2016 as a software consultant

Business Analyst

Understanding business process of IAS team and developing initial design of software product.

Understanding existing workflow and developing new workflow

Developing standardize process for preparation of tax return

Created Business requirement document to help users and developers about product in details

Developed entire tax computation for individuals

Defined data fetching mechanisms for different documents like Form 16 Part A, Form 26AS, Tax organizer, Prior year XML etc.

Developed product for IAS team with co-ordination with programmer

Worked with UAT tester from client site and successfully completed the UAT testing

Conducted online Training for PAN India users across location.

Implemented tax return software for IAS team at pan India level

Provided help desk support to IAS office

Provided Phone and email support

Tech Gen Soft solution from 16th January 2014 till July 2015 as Director of the company.

Experience (Tech Gen Soft solution from 16th January 2014 – July 2015) Business Analyst

Understanding business process of IAS team and developing initial design of software product.

Understanding existing workflow and developing new workflow

Developing standardize process for preparation of tax return

Created Business requirement document to help users and developers about product in details

Developed entire tax computation for individuals

Defined data fetching mechanisms for different documents like Form 16 Part A, Form 26AS, Tax organizer, Prior year XML etc.

Developed product for IAS team with co-ordination with programmer

Worked with UAT tester from client site and successfully completed the UAT testing

Conducted online Training for PAN India users across location.

Implementedtax return software for IAS team at pan India level

Provided help desk support to IAS office

Provided Phone and email support

oSureprep (India) Pvt. Ltd. from 2002 to 15th January 2014 (Worked as General manager Operation)

Business Analyst/Tax team head/Product Owner

Product Owner of scrum team of Agile method of software development

Understanding and developing workflow for in-house products like SurePrep Express, 1040Scan etc.

Worked as Business Analyst for developing products like 1040Scan and SurePrep Express.

Maintaining Definitions related to products based on different tax software needs for source documents and consolidated statements.

Developing workflow for different processes based on client requirement.

Developing business rules for data validation for fax to tax conversion.

Developing different logic as per business needs like Porting, Import TR, OCR etc.

Closely worked with Software development team leads and team members.

Understanding requirements from various internal and external users and enhancing in house developed software.

Actively participated in developing billing model for Business returns.

Developed Coding application to save preparation time of staff

Client Training/Support

Actively participated in developing training materials, Training Schedule and training programs with CSM and Client.

Imparting training of our systems to client sites .

Onsite support to client to help them to understand our software and solve various workflow related issues.

Preparing report for management regarding feedback of training and support.

Tracking issues reported by clients with various developers and support.

Handling support calls during support and training period with client teams.

1040 (US Individual federal and state Income Tax Return)

Preparation and review of federal and state tax returns.

Managing season by allotting returns, solving reviewer’s and preparer’s tax technical doubts.

Imparting training to new recruits for Tax deduction worksheet for state refund related calculation.

Developing material for training on Tax deduction worksheet.

Taking technical round of interview for new hires

Helping tax team to identify new amendments for tax year for implementing it in in-house products.

Taken training on software like Ultra Tax software

1065/1120/1120S (US Business Tax Returns for federal and state compliances)

Visited Client site for understanding their workflow for federal and state taxes

Developing standards for processing federal and state tax returns

Developed training materials federal and state tax return preparation.

Prepared federal and state pilot returns.

Imparting training to staff for preparation and reviewing federal as well as state tax returns.

Visited client site for feedback of pilot season and planning for next season.

Helped management to create Management reports based on client requirement.

Sending Client reports based on each steps of the returns.

Hiring of preparers for business return process.

Coordinating with Onshore team and CSM to improve quality and develop additional process.

Coordinating with Onshore team and delivering rush requests.

Other Skills/

Writing Requirement Documents.

Creating Flow charts for various workflows.

Creating Gap analysis of BRD and developed different products like Tax return Software etc.

Preparation of various presentations for client visit.

Well versed in working in Microsoft Visio.

Well versed in working in Microsoft Access.

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