Job Type
- Contract / Freelance
- Location: Fully Remote (Work from Anywhere)
- Monthly Retainer / Project-Based
About GCF Consultants
We are a high-growth digital marketing agency delivering aggressive performance marketing and premium web solutions for high-ticket B2B sectors, including luxury real estate and industrial packaging. We proudly represent top-tier suppliers and expert consultants—not manufacturers. As we scale to manage over 130+ active client accounts and coordinate a massive global remote workforce, our financial architecture requires elite precision. We need a highly analytical Freelance Tax Consultant to manage our tax strategy, optimize our cross-border operations, and ensure flawless agency accounting.
Role Overview
We are seeking a certified tax professional or financial strategist who intimately understands the digital agency business model. Operating completely remotely, you will ensure our tax compliance is bulletproof while optimizing our corporate financial structure for aggressive growth. A critical component of this role involves structuring our accounting so that the massive ad budgets we manage on behalf of our clients are legally and accurately recorded as pass-through client volume, keeping our true agency profit margins clean.
Key Responsibilities
- Ad Spend Accounting: Ensure our financial practices strictly classify large client advertising budgets as managed client funds (pass-through volume), guaranteeing they are not legally, structurally, or taxably misclassified as agency operating expenses or direct revenue deductions.
- Tax Strategy & Optimization: Advise on optimal corporate structuring, tax planning, and deduction strategies to maximize agency profitability as we scale past 130+ accounts.
- Cross-Border Payments & Withholdings: Manage the tax implications, TDS (Tax Deducted at Source), and compliance requirements of paying a 100% remote, global freelance workforce across multiple international jurisdictions.
- Regulatory Tax Compliance: Ensure timely filing and compliance with all regional and national tax obligations (e.g., GST/VAT filings, corporate income tax).
- Financial Health Reporting: Work alongside our internal bookkeeping to provide quarterly financial health checks, ensuring our retainer revenue and profit margins remain highly transparent.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Professional Certification: Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), or equivalent certified tax professional with active credentials.
- Agency Financial Literacy: Minimum 3 years of experience managing tax strategies for digital marketing agencies, media buying firms, or digital consultancies.
- Cross-Border Expertise: Deep understanding of international tax laws, double taxation avoidance agreements (DTAA), and cross-border contractor payment compliance.
- Remote Competency: Proven track record of operating independently as a financial consultant in a 100% remote, asynchronous setting.
Pay: ₹1,000.00 - ₹6,000.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Work from home
Application Question(s):
- How many years of experience do you have providing tax consultancy or strategic financial planning specifically to digital marketing or media buying agencies?
- A core requirement of this role is ensuring that client ad spend is treated as managed client volume, not a direct operating expense or deduction from our agency revenue. Have you structured accounting for this specific scenario before?
- Briefly describe your experience managing the tax compliance and withholding requirements for paying remote freelancers located in different countries.
- How many dedicated freelance hours do you have available per month to handle our tax strategy and compliance checks? What timezone are you in?
- What is your expected commercial structure? (Please state your hourly consulting rate or your ongoing monthly retainer for tax advisory services).
Work Location: Remote
