Compliance, done right.
AN INDIRECT TAX & AI AUTOMATION SPECIALIST FOR MODERN FINANCE TEAMS
EMEA VAT compliance, tax technology and AI agents — ten years at EY, built with craft.
Indirect Tax Manager · EMEA VAT Specialist · Bengaluru
Ten years of EMEA VAT, one new toolkit of AI — and a clear view of which is for what. First, the work:
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A decade at EY, Bengaluru — Staff to Manager, six promotions, one specialty.
Where I come from
Most of compliance is repeatable: collect, prepare, check, chase, file. That work belongs to automation — and increasingly to AI agents that handle it end to end.
What doesn't belong to automation is the signature. A human should decide what's right, defensible, and ready to file. Teams that split the work this way scale without losing control — and that's the split I build for.
Brilliant at
Volume work: first drafts, data preparation, reconciliations, status chasing — almost anything in front of it, instantly.
Hopeless at
Knowing which output is defensible to a tax authority, and having the judgment to sign it.
Client data never leaves the building.
Local-first AI
Finance teams have a real problem with AI: the tools are brilliant, but sending client data to someone else's server is a non-starter. In tax, confidentiality isn't a preference. It's the job.
So the setup I champion is local-first: open-weight models running on on-premise, DGX-class hardware, inside the firm's own walls. The AI gets to be fully useful; the data never crosses the boundary.
It follows the same rule as everything else I build: automation prepares, humans sign. And now, nothing leaves.
Own the hardware
A DGX-class GPU server inside the firm's network — the models live where the data lives.
Open-weight models
Tuned for tax workflows and run locally — no calls to external AI APIs, ever.
Sealed workflows
Client files are processed inside the boundary; nothing is uploaded to third-party servers.
Logged and signed
Every AI step recorded and reviewed — a human signs everything that files.
Latest notes
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10+
years in indirect tax
19+
EMEA jurisdictions
60–70
returns signed off monthly
100+
returns reviewed quarterly
30+
professionals trained
6
promotions at EY
Three toolkits, one job.
Tax
The core discipline: multi-country VAT done right, at scale.
- EMEA VAT Compliance & Reporting
- VAT Controllership & Sign-off
- Tax Authority Audit Support
- Statutory Filings, 19+ Countries
- France Country Champion
Technology
Dashboards and standardized processes that replace manual work.
- Power BI & Alteryx Dashboards
- Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
- Desktop Review Automation
- Continuous Process Improvement
- EY Proprietary Tax Platforms
AI & People
AI agents for the tedious work; trained humans for the judgment.
- AI Agents for Tax Operations
- Local-First AI (On-Prem LLMs)
- Data Confidentiality by Design
- Team of 15+ · 30+ Trained
- Client Relationships & Transitions