Company:
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