Senior Tax Specialist

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South Africa
Information Technology • Software
The Role

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:

  • 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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The Company
HQ: Gauteng
1,630 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1965

What We Do

Altron is a proudly South African technology group. We harness the power of data, technology and human ingenuity to solve real-world problems, from the everyday to the epic. A technology industry leader since 1965, we’re partnering with customers across all industries to help them grow, build a thriving economy and transform today into a simpler, safer and smarter tomorrow. Altron operates in six countries, employs 4,700+ people and reported revenue of ZAR 7.9bn for the 12-month period ended 28 Feb 2023.

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