The Role
Manage Kenyan tax compliance and reporting (CIT, VAT, WHT, PAYE), lead KRA audits and tax accounting (IFRS/GAAP). Coordinate East African regional tax strategy, transfer pricing, cross-border advisory, and local compliance. Improve tax processes, mentor junior staff, and liaise with Finance, Legal, and external advisors.
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Job Location: Nairobi, Kenya
About The Role:
We are seeking a highly experienced and commercially minded Tax Manager to oversee all direct and indirect tax compliance, reporting, and strategy for our Kenyan operations while coordinating tax activities across the East African region (including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar). The ideal candidate will be an expert in Kenyan tax law (KRA) and possess strong working knowledge of the diverse tax regimes and emerging legislative changes within the East African Community (EAC).
About The Role:
We are seeking a highly experienced and commercially minded Tax Manager to oversee all direct and indirect tax compliance, reporting, and strategy for our Kenyan operations while coordinating tax activities across the East African region (including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar). The ideal candidate will be an expert in Kenyan tax law (KRA) and possess strong working knowledge of the diverse tax regimes and emerging legislative changes within the East African Community (EAC).
What you will be expected to do:
1. Kenya Tax Compliance & Reporting (Primary Focus)
Compliance: Manage and ensure timely and accurate preparation and filing of all Kenyan statutory tax returns, including Corporate Income Tax (CIT), Value Added Tax (VAT), Withholding Tax (WHT), and Pay As You Earn (PAYE), in compliance with Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) requirements, including eTIMS/TIMS.
Advisory: Provide in-depth tax guidance on local business operations, new product launches, intercompany transactions, and the related tax implications.
Audits & Disputes: Act as the primary liaison with the KRA, managing tax audits, investigations, objections, and appeals while working with external counsel where required.
Tax Accounting: Oversee the computation of current and deferred tax provisions for financial reporting (IFRS/GAAP).
2. East Africa Regional Tax Management
Regional Compliance Coordination: Coordinate with local finance teams and external advisors in Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar to ensure timely and accurate local tax filings and compliance.
Tax Strategy & Planning: Develop and implement effective East and Southern Africa tax strategies that optimize tax efficiency while maintaining compliance with domestic and regional tax regulations, including the goals of EAC harmonization.
Transfer Pricing: Manage and review regional Transfer Pricing (TP) documentation to ensure compliance with local regulations and regional consistency while minimizing the risk of inter-jurisdictional disputes.
Cross-Border Advisory: Provide guidance on the tax implications of cross-border transactions, services, and the movement of goods and personnel across East and Southern Africa.
Risk Management: Monitor regional tax legislation and proactively assess its impact on business operations, ensuring appropriate actions are implemented where required.
3. General & Strategic Management
Process Improvement: Identify and implement improvements to tax processes, controls, and technology to increase efficiency and accuracy.
Stakeholder Management: Work closely with Finance HQ, local Finance teams, Legal, and business unit managers across the region.
Policy Development: Prepare and present detailed tax memoranda, policy documents, and training materials for finance and operational teams.
Team Development: Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior finance team members on tax matters.
Compliance: Manage and ensure timely and accurate preparation and filing of all Kenyan statutory tax returns, including Corporate Income Tax (CIT), Value Added Tax (VAT), Withholding Tax (WHT), and Pay As You Earn (PAYE), in compliance with Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) requirements, including eTIMS/TIMS.
Advisory: Provide in-depth tax guidance on local business operations, new product launches, intercompany transactions, and the related tax implications.
Audits & Disputes: Act as the primary liaison with the KRA, managing tax audits, investigations, objections, and appeals while working with external counsel where required.
Tax Accounting: Oversee the computation of current and deferred tax provisions for financial reporting (IFRS/GAAP).
2. East Africa Regional Tax Management
Regional Compliance Coordination: Coordinate with local finance teams and external advisors in Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar to ensure timely and accurate local tax filings and compliance.
Tax Strategy & Planning: Develop and implement effective East and Southern Africa tax strategies that optimize tax efficiency while maintaining compliance with domestic and regional tax regulations, including the goals of EAC harmonization.
Transfer Pricing: Manage and review regional Transfer Pricing (TP) documentation to ensure compliance with local regulations and regional consistency while minimizing the risk of inter-jurisdictional disputes.
Cross-Border Advisory: Provide guidance on the tax implications of cross-border transactions, services, and the movement of goods and personnel across East and Southern Africa.
Risk Management: Monitor regional tax legislation and proactively assess its impact on business operations, ensuring appropriate actions are implemented where required.
3. General & Strategic Management
Process Improvement: Identify and implement improvements to tax processes, controls, and technology to increase efficiency and accuracy.
Stakeholder Management: Work closely with Finance HQ, local Finance teams, Legal, and business unit managers across the region.
Policy Development: Prepare and present detailed tax memoranda, policy documents, and training materials for finance and operational teams.
Team Development: Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior finance team members on tax matters.
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Professional Qualification: Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K) or an equivalent professional accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA) is mandatory.
- A Postgraduate Diploma or Master's degree in Taxation is an added advantage.
- Minimum of 5 years' progressive experience in corporate tax, with significant exposure to Kenyan and East African tax matters, ideally gained within a Big Four accounting firm or a multinational organization.
- Technical Knowledge :Deep, current knowledge of Kenyan and East African Income Tax Acts, VAT legislation, tax frameworks, treaties, and key compliance requirements across the EAC.
- Excellent data interpretation, problem-solving, and judgment skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage KRA audits and negotiations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to explain complex tax matters clearly to non-tax professionals and senior management.
- Proficiency in tax compliance software and financial accounting systems.
What Sun King offers:
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture with enthusiastic colleagues driven by the challenge of innovation and making a profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.
We place great importance on sustaining a diverse, inclusive work environment.
We believe that innovation and understanding comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining an inclusive workplace requires conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.
Sun King recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes people based on their experience, skills, effort, and results. We explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, caste, national origin, color, gender, marital status, family structure, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, or disability.
About
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection.Sun King has built a new kind of energy utility: distributed, green, customer-centric, and affordable. We bring clean, reliable, decentralized energy directly into people’s lives — from solar kits that provide first-time energy access to multi-kilowatt systems that serve both off-grid users and grid-connected customers powering larger homes, schools, hospitals, farms, offices, and light manufacturing.Already, 25 million homes and businesses rely on Sun King for electricity supply and the appliances and services it enables: lighting, televisions, fans, refrigeration, and smartphones. Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 a day via mobile money or cash.Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright.Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families. Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 42% of Sun King’s workforce.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K) or equivalent (ACCA, ACA)
- Minimum of 5 years' progressive experience in corporate tax with significant exposure to Kenyan and East African tax matters
- Deep, current knowledge of Kenyan and East African Income Tax Acts, VAT legislation, tax frameworks, treaties, and EAC compliance requirements
- Demonstrated ability to manage KRA audits, investigations, objections, and appeals
- Proficiency in tax compliance software and financial accounting systems
- Excellent data interpretation, problem-solving, and judgment skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
- Postgraduate Diploma or Master's degree in Taxation
- Experience in a Big Four accounting firm or multinational organization (preferred)
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What We Do
Sun King designs, distributes, installs, and finances solar energy solutions for consumers who lack reliable access to traditional electrical grids.
