Senior Tax Advisor
Posting date : 07/04/2025
Requisition ID : 45217
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