Senior Tax Specialist
- Employer
- Pty
- Location
- South Africa Altron Campus Woodmead Block F ZA, South Africa
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- Oct 6, 2024
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- Job Role
- Tax Compliance
- Sector
- Finance
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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Title
Senior Tax Specialist
Job Description
JOB PURPOSE:
The Senior Tax Specialist is responsible for overseeing and managing all domestic and international tax-related matters within the organization, ensuring compliance with tax laws and regulations.
The role includes:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Income Tax
Capital Gains Tax
Mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations
Dividends Tax
VAT, PAYE and Customs
Tax Dispute Resolution
Tax Advisory & Opinion Writing
Ad hoc requests/ Special Assignments:
Quality:
COMMUNICATIONS & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
Manage relationships with Group and Operational Management, and act as a trusted advisor.
Internal:
Reasons for Interaction:
External:
Reasons for Interaction:
QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS:
Educational Qualifications:
Years of Experience
Skills
COMPETENCIES:
Behaviours Required:
Education
Languages
Senior Tax Specialist
Job Description
JOB PURPOSE:
The Senior Tax Specialist is responsible for overseeing and managing all domestic and international tax-related matters within the organization, ensuring compliance with tax laws and regulations.
The role includes:
- Preparation, review, and submission of tax filings, management of tax audits and disputes.
- Providing tax advice on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate reorganizations.
- Provide tax advice on cross border transactions, including preparation, review and submission of CFC returns, preparation of transfer pricing documentation, preparation of withholding taxes and foreign tax credit schedules.
- Other tax related areas, including capital gains tax, dividends tax, VAT, PAYE and Customs, while offering strategic input on tax planning and risk management.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Income Tax
- Manage the preparation, review and submission of tax packs, provisional tax returns (IRP6) and income tax returns (ITR14), e-filing tax payments and other related tax documentation, ensuring accuracy and compliance with deadlines.
Capital Gains Tax
- Prepare detailed calculations on capital transactions, ensuring accurate reporting and compliance with CGT regulations.
Mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations
- Provide analysis and tax advice on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate reorganizations to optimize tax efficiency.
Dividends Tax
- Ensure correct calculation and timely submission of dividends tax returns.
VAT, PAYE and Customs
- On an ad hoc basis, prepare, review and submission of VAT and PAYE returns.
- Provide tax advice on internal and SARS queries, including verifications, requests for information, audits and disputes.
- Provide oversight and tax advice on Customs duties, ensuring compliance with South African Customs Laws.
Tax Dispute Resolution
- Handle tax disputes with the South African Revenue Service (SARS), including objections, appeals, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) proceedings.
- Act as the liaison between SARS and the organization, ensuring favourable resolutions.
- Prepare, submit, and manage objections and appeals.
Tax Advisory & Opinion Writing
- Provide technical tax opinions on complex tax matters, including but not limited to corporate transactions, reorganizations.
- Conduct research and provide tax advice to business units and executive management on various tax-related issues.
Ad hoc requests/ Special Assignments:
- Execute special tax reviews or ad hoc tax projects.
- Assist in the performance of special reviews requested by management.
- Prepare clear and concise reports for ad hoc projects/assignments, and further present the reports to management.
Quality:
- Execute/assist in completion of all tax work in accordance with quality standards.
- Ensure tax business is conducted in accordance with quality standards and code of ethics.
- Prepare clear and concise reports for tax and ad hoc engagements performed.
COMMUNICATIONS & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
Manage relationships with Group and Operational Management, and act as a trusted advisor.
Internal:
- Operations Management
- Group Management
- Finance Team members across Altron
Reasons for Interaction:
- Internal Tax execution and reporting of Internal Tax findings.
External:
- Service Providers and other third parties
- SARS
Reasons for Interaction:
- Tax execution and reporting of Tax findings.
QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS:
Educational Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Commerce degree (in Accounting or Taxation)
- Masters in Taxation will be advantageous
Years of Experience
- Minimum 7 years' experience in a tax-related role
Skills
- Adherence to principles and values
- Assertive, decisive, and self-confident
- Analytical, logical, and methodical
- Project and time management
- Strong communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation)
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Willingness to learn/grow (ambitious)
- Stress tolerance
- Resilience
- Proficiency with MS Office, SARS e-filing and other tax reporting tools
COMPETENCIES:
Behaviours Required:
- Results orientation: Driving results and delivery and instilling a sense of urgency.
- Responsible and reliable: Demonstrate responsible and reliable behaviour.
- Understand interdependency: Understand interdependency of own role and team roles on other parts of the business.
- Focus: Ability to focus with sustained attention until desired outcomes have been achieved.
- Problem solving: Ability to analyse, integrate and apply knowledge and experience in order to find solutions.
- Collaboration with others: Work with others to exercise judgement around opportunities that represent the most potential for innovation and return on investment for Altron and its stakeholders.
- Inclusiveness: Builds good working relationships with people of all other cultures and backgrounds - continually examining own biases and behaviours to avoid stereotypical responses.
- Negotiation: Ability to negotiate (work goals).
- Work ethic: Demonstrates strong work ethic.
- Fairness: Treats people with dignity, respect, and fairness; gives proper credit to others; stands up for deserving others and their ideas when appropriate.
- Bring the energy: Display high levels of commitment, enthusiasm and maintains a positive attitude.
- Ethical: Demonstrates honesty; keeps commitments; behaves in a consistent manner; abides by moral principles; shares thoughts, feelings, and rationale so that others understand personal positions.
- Live the values: Lead by example; values visible in everyday behaviour.
Education
Languages
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