Senior Tax Specialist

Title

Senior Tax Specialist

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.

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