Senior Tax Advisor

SENIOR TAX ADVISOR

Reporting Lines: The person will report directly to the Tax Manager for South Africa.

The successful incumbent will be responsible for the tax accounting & reporting, tax advisory, tax risk management, and tax compliance.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Analyse information and develop practical and creative tax solutions tailored to meet specific tax related scenarios.
• Prepare monthly normal tax and deferred tax computations, including reviewing the effective tax rates, explaining the variances.
• Prepare journals for tax payments and refunds
• Tax reporting to offshore ultimate holding company.
• Prepare provisional tax returns, withholding tax returns, and tax returns, including year-end packs schedules.
• Ensure compliance to tax legislation for all tax exposure areas, including income tax, CGT, withholding taxes, transfer pricing, VAT, customs duties, PAYE.
• Assist in updating, performing and review of Tax budgets & Financial Models
• Prepare the monthly VAT returns and ensure compliance with VAT legislation.
• Prepare taxation, deferred taxation and VAT general ledger reconciliations on a monthly basis.
• Responsible for the review of annual financial statements, financial statement disclosure in respect of taxation.
• Provide support and assistance to tax year-end reporting processes
• Maintain up to date status checklist and reports of all companies’ tax returns, outstanding SARS queries.
• Proactively seek opportunities to achieve tax savings.

Knowledge and skills:

• Familiarity with transfer pricing issues
• Tax accounting
• Tax advisory
• Self-starter
• Enthusiastic, energetic
• Reliable and disciplined

Academic Qualifications:

• Qualified CA (SA) will be advantageous with postgraduate tax qualification advantageous, or BCom (Honours) degree in Accounting/Taxation with postgraduate tax qualification

Experience:

• A minimum of 2 years’ post-articles accounting and tax experience, or 4 – 5 years accounting and tax experience.
• Must have a consulting experience, or commercial environment exposure within large, diverse multinational organisation.

Knowledge, skills & abilities:

• Required previous exposure to international tax frameworks
• Excellent knowledge of local and international tax legislation
• The applicant should demonstrate an understanding of increasingly complex tax concepts and effectively apply his/her tax knowledge to situations, developing and delivering innovative tax planning ideas with timely, responsive services and work products that meet business needs.
• Exposure to tax accounting and tax compliance
• Exposure to international taxation
• Experience in handling tax queries and audits from SARS
• Pro-active in identifying potential tax problems and creating solutions
• Have a high level of organisational skills and ability to prioritize, handle multiple projects at a time and meet multiple deadlines in a fast paced environment.
• Have the ability to communicate with all levels within the organisation and with various stakeholders as and when needed.
• Be adaptable and able to cope under pressure
• Able to work independently as well as in a team environment