Consultant - Tax Reporting And Tax Risk. Group Tax

Consultant:
Group Tax
The role must deliver in the below context:
- An expertise-based multicultural organisation
- A dynamic and evolving field of Telecommunications
- Dynamic Tax, Legal and Regulatory environment
- Evolving industry sector constantly presenting new challenges and opportunities to the core businesses
- Rapid horizontal and vertical expansion of MTN, in terms of strategy, product offering, customers and geographic distribution
**Key Performance Areas**:
**Operational**
- On a monthly basis, capture tax workings for adhoc Group entities.
- On a monthly basis, collate Opco tax computations. Review and prepare consolidated Group tax working and Group effective tax rate reconciliation.
- On a quarterly basis, obtain tax risk registers from all Opcos, review &
consolidate to form Group tax risk register report.
- Support Tax function on interim and year-end audits and reporting.
- Attend to statutory audits, by external auditors, of all the group companies’ tax computations and group effective tax rate reconciliations.
- Collate all budget &
forecast tax workings from all Opcos. Review and prepare a consolidated Group tax working and Group effective tax rate reconciliation.
- Highlight potential tax risk areas and provide recommendations to resolve.
- Respond to any tax reporting queries raised by stakeholders.
- Ensure Opcos adhere to tax reporting requirements.
- Assist Opcos with drafting &
updating their in-country tax policies to ensure alignment with Group.
- Actively support and collaborate with Opco tax functions
- Participate in taxation and business projects and assignments, as required
- Ad-hoc administrative and analytical support.
- Maintain proper records of all responsibilities for governance and audit purposes
- Address and resolve tax related queries.
**Reporting**
- Report on an ad hoc basis on specific projects, as required
- Collect and reconciliation of tax information for reporting purpose.
- Regular reporting of tax status of MTN operations
**Job Requirements**:
**Education**:
- Bachelor Commerce Accounting degree or equivalent (required)
- Postgraduate Taxation Diploma (required)
- Qualified Chartered Accountant CA(SA) advantageous
- Articles at a top 5 audit firm or at a law firm advantageous
- Any other related accreditation advantageous
- Registration to Professional bodies advantageous
**Experience**:
- 3 - 5 years of relevant working experience in Tax domain
- Tax operations experience especially in a multi-country operations environment
**Functional Competencies**:
- Ambiguity within the workplace
- Analysis
- Conflict management
- ERP (Oracle preferred)
- Problem solving
- Risk management
- Influencing others
- Data interpretation
- Presentation
- Reporting
- Analytical
**Behavioral Competencies**:
- Accountable
- Adaptable
- Agile
- Collaborative
- Culturally aware
- Innovative
- Inquisitive