Tax & Vat Consultant (Contract) -Global Tax Centre Africa at Deloitte

Company:

Deloitte

Deloitte

Industry: Consulting

Deadline: Not specified

Job Type: Contract

Qualification: Bachelors

Experience: 1 year

Province: Gauteng

City:

Field: Finance / Accounting / Audit

Job Description
NB: This is a 2 year Fixed Term Contract based in the Midrand office.

  • Under minimal supervision, to manage and lead large multinational clients under Global Compliance Outsourcing. 
  • Ability to lead Multinational clients without minimal support
  • Is confident to present and lead with client discussions
  • Ability to manage difficult conversations with clients and know when to bring in the Partner or AD to support
  • Through the effective working relationships built within the client business to understand their requirements, suggests improvements to processes that better deliver to the business needs. 
  • Registering taxpayers for various taxes
  • Data wrangling on excel for importation into compliance tool
  • Mapping of data into the VAT technology tool for countries across Africa
  • Completing and electronically filing VAT returns for taxpayers using the automated compliance tool
  • Preparing objections and penalty and interest remission requests to the South African Revenue Service
  • Corresponding with the South African Revenue Service on follow ups on clients’ affairs
  • Update and use of internal software (local and global)
  • Provide ad hoc VAT compliance services, e.g., tax audits and verifications and high-level advice related to the ongoing VAT compliance services provided to clients
  • Analyzing monthly work in progress, assisting with issuing of bills to clients and monthly follow ups with clients to settle invoices

Differentiators for this specific role:

  • Tax Compliance in Africa
  • Global compliance and reporting
  • Worked on Multinational clients before
  • Close to the trends in Africa and where Revenue Authorities are going
  • Has good knowledge of Value-Added Tax (VAT) 

Qualifications

  • B Com / Accounting / Programming / Informatics
  • Minimum 1 years’ experience as a specialist in Value-Added Tax (“VAT”)
  • A Tax or VAT qualification would be advantageous
  • Previous experience dealing with the South African Revenue Service would be advantageous
  • Knowledge of the Value-Added Tax Act and Tax Administration Act
  • Understanding and knowledge of ERP systems (SAP, ORACLE, other ERP’s) on a high-level is a plus
  • Ability to integrate rapidly with existing team
  • Strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills

Core Professional Technical Capabilities

  • Tax Laws and Rules – Applies knowledge and skills of relevant practices and processes (or relevant tax rules and regulations) in area of specialization to client problems
  • Delivery excellence – Proactively manages client issues, expectations and service level agreements
  • Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving – Interprets and synthesizes data, exercises professional skepticism to challenge data, and identifies meaningful insights to develop recommendations that most effectively support a client’s business objectives
  • Technology Tools and Solutions – Articulates how technology enables business processes and is able to communicate its value clearly to clients

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