Tax Lead and Financial Manager Southern Africa

SUMMARY:

A global multi-national manufacturer is seeking the above to be responsible for operations and compliance in the area of taxation, ensuring internal controls in accordance with global and local guidelines, including process audits and control systems. The successful candidate will be responsible for all legal entity financial matters for Southern Africa (e.g., planning and forecasting processes) and will ensure proper local implementation of key corporate processes, directives, and functions.

POSITION INFO:

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Must be a CA(SA) with specialization in the field of Taxation
• Minimum 5-8 years’ relevant tax experience
• Previous experience within a multinational company would be highly advantageous
• Experience in working with tax authorities is essential
• Attention to fine detail in applying tax knowledge/analyzing facts and tax law
• Must have good presentation and communication skills

• Ensuring compliance with all local tax laws in the areas of corporate taxes and VAT, including tax payments, tax return submissions, and adherence to global guidelines and KPIs such as Effective Tax Rate and BKA reporting.
• Identifying tax risks and implementing mitigation procedures, while performing all tax calculations for accounting and audit purposes.
• Liaising with tax authorities, tax advisors, and transfer pricing offices.
• Training business group representatives on VAT and import duty issues.
• Supporting tax audits and tax litigation, including related risk management, and managing transfer pricing activities.
• Planning taxes and preparing annual tax returns and provisional tax payments.
• Ensuring compliance with all local tax laws in corporate taxes, supporting the development and implementation of directives, guidelines, and SOPs in coordination with functional areas.
• Scrutinizing internal control systems and processes to identify weaknesses, suggesting and developing control measures, supervising implementation, and conducting walk-throughs.
• Performing ad hoc internal audits, forensic audits, and investigations through the “fraud line.”
• Assisting with corporate internal audits and statutory audits.
• Performing short-term planning, forecasting, and recording/documenting Legal Entity Financials.
• Preparing local Legal Entity income statements and consolidations for tax forecasts and transfer pricing purposes.
• Preparing local Legal Entity cash flow statements for liquidity planning and impairment testing and preparing financials for exposure planning.
• Ensuring compliant and timely delivery of financial data to global systems (e.g., data.one, CoFiPot, BayTC).
• Ensuring data integrity and correcting errors as required.
• Supporting external reporting to authorities.
• Complying with standard Financial Steering processes and timelines (divisional and non-divisional).
• Implementing and managing operational changes of defined planning processes and tools.
• Managing local governance of intercompany transactions and intercompany contracts.
• Ensuring compliance with ICS-relevant activities concerning legal entity processes.