Functional consultant – gst / indirect tax (tax-tech)

Kevin Shah & Associates · Mumbai, India

Kevin Shah & Associates (KSAA) is a growing legal firm based in Mumbai, founded by experienced professionals from diverse fields. The firm offers cross-practice services with strong expertise in Indirect Taxation and International Trade & Customs. KSAA is client-centric, focused on providing practical, high-quality, and cost-efficient solutions tailored to each client’s needs. The firm emphasizes partner involvement, transparent processes, and long-term relationships, making it a trusted choice for clients. KSAA also has its Tech Vertical called Kat Compliance Karma Pvt. Ltd. for which it is seeking a Functional Role. The said Company is into developing a GST Software.

•  Reports to: Founder & CEO (source of the GST knowledge download)

•  Works with: Tech team Business Analyst (BA), UI/UX team, and the development vendor

•  Nature of role: Individual owner of the documentation-to-testing chain; the accountable custodian of every FSD and its data.

Core Responsibility : The responsibilities below follow the exact workflow this role must run, end to end:

What Success Looks Like:

•  Documentation integrity: Every GST rule from the knowledge download is captured in the FSD; nothing critical lives only in conversation.

•  No scope drift: The built product matches the FSD. Deviations are caught at explanation stage and documented, never allowed through informally.

•  Compliance-correct testing: Test data proves that compliance data reaches the correct bucket under GST rules, across valid, invalid, encoded and edge cases.

•  Clean records: All FSDs, versions, approvals and data sets are stored elegantly and can be retrieved instantly. Communication is crisp and on-record.

•  Reliable delivery: The project and team run on documentation and discipline rather than on the CEO’s constant involvement.

Required Skills & Experience:

•  GST domain depth: Strong, working command of GST returns and compliance — outward/inward supplies, ITC, reconciliation against the GST portal, and the filing logic of forms such as GSTR-1, 3 B and 6. A Chartered Accountant or an indirect-tax specialist is the natural fit.

•  Functional documentation: Demonstrated ability to convert domain knowledge into a rigorous FSD — rules, conditions, edge cases and data flows written unambiguously.

•  Working with tech teams: Able to brief a BA and hold the line that build must not exceed documented scope. Comfortable at the business–technology interface without needing to code.

•  Test-data & compliance testing: Able to design compliance-focused test data and test plans that verify correct data-bucket mapping, not merely software function.

•  Excel & data handling: Fast and accurate with Excel and structured data — essential for building test sets and organising records.

•  Documentation discipline: Naturally organised: version control, clean storage, crisp written communication.

Attributes and Temperament:

This role only works with the right temperament. The successful candidate is:

•  Documentation-first by instinct — believes nothing is agreed until it is written.

•  Rigorous and precise, willing to go deep into a rule until it is fully resolved rather than left ambiguous.

•  Firm at the FSD boundary — able to hold the tech team to documented scope without conceding to informal changes.

•  Organised and crisp in communication, on email and in records.

•  Committed and accountable - takes full ownership of the project and team, and runs both with discipline. Reliability and follow-through matter as much as technical skill.

Key Deliverables:

•  Complete FSD for each GST form, versioned (initial and build-ready).

•  FSD walkthrough to the tech BA, with a documented resolution of every gap raised.

•  Approved UI/UX for each module before development.

•  Compliance test-data sets and internal test plans per release.

•  A clean, organised, retrievable repository of all documents, data and approvals.