Equity Research Senior Associate in Gurugram

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Manager, Tax Overview: This role is responsible for supporting global employment tax compliance, advisory, risk management, and project execution activities. The role serves as a key technical resource and works closely with regional stakeholders and external advisors to ensure operational excellence and compliance across global employment tax processes. Role: • Support internal stakeholders on federal, state, and local employment tax compliance activities, such as reviewing tax notices, statutory tax filings, and reconciliations • Assist in research to support tax positions, resolve multi-state withholding issues, reciprocity agreements, nonresident allocation questions, and cross-border tax implications • Assist in taxation and reporting of equity compensation and incentive plans (RSUs, stock options, ESPP, ISIP-type plans) across jurisdictions, including year-end true-ups, and recharge arrangement considerations. • Provide tax guidance to cross-functional partners on the employment tax implications of compensation, benefits, travel & expense programs, and remote/flexible work arrangements globally. • Collaborate with stakeholders to develop processes and procedures to ensure accurate tax reporting and withholdings on employee compensation and benefits including long-term incentives and bonus

WHO WE ARE: Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Prepare month/quarter/year-end financial statements, including cash flows for leadership reviews. Timely address comments received. Partner with FP&A in preparing and reviewing period end investor/leadership reporting. Perform financial data reconciliations in various systems internally utilizing to ensure accurate financial reporting. Perform consolidations and intercompany eliminations. Maintain and timely update equity rollforward and capitalization table for investor submissions. Collaborate with various process owners and departments to collect information needed for financial statement footnotes. Facilitate leadership review of the financial statements and timely address comments received. Responsible for tracking open audit request items and timely providing requested items for audit completion. Prepare annual GAAP checklist. Participate in process walkthrough meetings for the audit. Obtain details and prepare acquisition footnote where applicable. Review P&L coding to ensure proper presentation of related costs. Prepare year-end going concern analysis and memo. Assist with internal ad-hoc reporting/requests. WHAT YOU’LL NEED: Bachelor’s degree, advanced degree a plus . CPA with Big 4 experience. 8-10 years of public and/or private accounting experience. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills. Ability to work independently and in a team envi