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Nikhil Saluja

London,United Kingdom

Summary

Tax Consultant (4+ years of experience in the Big 4) to some of the largest banks, insurers, insurance brokers, asset managers and businesses operating in the financial services space. I excel in using my strong analytical, strategic and problem solving skills to deliver high-quality service to clients. ACA qualified (with one exam remaining to also be CTA qualified), equipping me with excellent financial analysis expertise.


Now eager to leverage my skills and experience in a new dynamic tax role that challenges me to deliver value-driven and innovative solutions.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
14
14
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Tax Consultant (Manager)

Deloitte
London
02.2021 - 05.2025
  • Tax Consultant (Manager) specialising advising clients in the financial services sector on indirect tax
  • Extensive advice on partial exemption special methods for input tax recovery.
  • Advice on VAT liabilities and associated input tax recovery for clients.
  • Undertaken thorough indirect tax reviews for clients.
  • Identified opportunities to streamline clients' indirect tax activities, resulting in them become more efficient and effective.
  • Indirect Tax due diligence advice on M&A transactions.
  • Review and preparation of complex clients' VAT returns.
  • Day-to-day handling of clients.
  • Responsible for organising the annual FSI Global Indirect Tax Conference.

Finance Intern

Whitbread
Dunstable
07.2019 - 09.2019
  • Used excel to help deliver insightful reporting to understand key performance risks and opportunities for the business.
  • Tracked weekly costs e.g. Laundry and Consumables vs target and previous years spend.
  • Supported Operations Finance team in ad-hoc reporting and analysis.

Tax Compliance Analyst (Industrial Placement year)

Xerox
Uxbridge
07.2018 - 07.2019
  • Worked closely with the Accounting team to perform monthly tax accounting processes.
  • Produced monthly tax journals, cash tax forecasts and analysed movements on tax accounts.
  • Supported preparation of tax computations by using tax compliance software 'Alphatax'.
  • Collected, validated and analysed tax related data from international accounting contacts for reporting and compliance purposes.

Customer Assistant

Marks and Spencer
Welwyn Garden City
10.2015 - 12.2015
  • Worked in food and men's section dealing with customer enquiries during the busy Christmas period.
  • Responsible for stock management.
  • Operated on the tills taking cash, card or gift voucher payments, as well as dealing with refunds.

Work shadowing

Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bromley
07.2015
  • Gained an insight into the Bank's processes.
  • Shadowed change managers to understand how business changes convert into technology solutions.

Education

ACA - Qualified -

ICAEW
02.2021 - 11.2024

CTA (Indirect Tax) - undefined

Chartered Institute of Taxation
11.2022 - 05.2025

BSc (Hons) - Accounting and Finance

University of Kent
09.2016 - 06.2020

A-Levels - A,B,C

Monks Walk School
09.2014 - 07.2016

GCSEs - 3AS, 4As, 2Bs, C, Distinction and Merit

Monk's Walk School
09.2012 - 07.2014

Skills

  • Numerical Analysis
  • Financial Analysis
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Data Analysis
  • Financial Accounting
  • Statistics
  • Account Reconciliation
  • Financial Reporting
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Organization Skills
  • Leadership
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Teamwork
  • Client - handling
  • Indirect Tax advisory
  • P&L Analysis
  • Tax Compliance
  • Strategic Analysis
  • Problem solving

Timeline

CTA (Indirect Tax) - undefined

Chartered Institute of Taxation
11.2022 - 05.2025

Tax Consultant (Manager)

Deloitte
02.2021 - 05.2025

ACA - Qualified -

ICAEW
02.2021 - 11.2024

Finance Intern

Whitbread
07.2019 - 09.2019

Tax Compliance Analyst (Industrial Placement year)

Xerox
07.2018 - 07.2019

BSc (Hons) - Accounting and Finance

University of Kent
09.2016 - 06.2020

Customer Assistant

Marks and Spencer
10.2015 - 12.2015

Work shadowing

Bank of America Merrill Lynch
07.2015

A-Levels - A,B,C

Monks Walk School
09.2014 - 07.2016

GCSEs - 3AS, 4As, 2Bs, C, Distinction and Merit

Monk's Walk School
09.2012 - 07.2014

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