Senior Specialist: Corporate Tax at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• To provide specialist advice and deliver and ensure statutory tax and VAT compliance for a specific company or specific tax discipline within the Group and provide tax advice where appropriate.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Finance Economics and Accounting

Additional Minimum Qualifications

• Post Graduate Qualification with specialist Tax focus

Minimum Experience

• Minimum of 5 years’ working experience within a tax related field (Essential)
• Specific experience within the financial services sector (Desirable)

Process

• Provide specialist advice and support in area of accountability to ensure that identified solutions and recommendations are appropriate and effective.
• Identify, diagnose and recommend improvements and provide specialist advice and support; ensuring that solutions are appropriate and effective.
• Investigate and make recommendations that could potentially lead to tax savings in compliance with relevant legislation.
• Source, collate, analyse and interpret financial data in order to assist in and support the review of the financial performance of the business.
• Keep abreast of regulation and industry developments to advise and guide on key compliance risk issues; enabling informed decision making.
• Advise on the accurate and timeous completion and submission of tax returns, related payments and monthly tax accounting entries.
• Review and compare, on a monthly basis, internal tax accounting with SARS statements of accounts to ensure they are reconciled.
• Review and identify improvements to the preparation of tax submissions and ensure compliance in the process.
• Accountable for the improvement of quality, service and work outputs, continuously recommending improvements.
• Plan for the organisation of work outputs and process improvement activities in light of a specific situational context related to the area of specialisation.
• Proactively identify area of specialisation related problems, determine cause and effect and recommend the best option to implement corrective action based on previous experience.

Customer

• Provide specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships and creates a favourable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.

Finance

• Adhere to financial controls, governance and compliance policies and processes throughout an area of specialisation, contributing to cost efficiency.

Learning and Growth

• Contribute positively to human capability improvement, related to knowledge optimisation and associated with area of specialisation.

Governance

• Comply to risk and governance policies, implement and provide subject matter input to the development of related processes, applicable to the area of specialisation.

Technical Competencies

• Tax Management (Proficient)
• Research and Information Gathering (Intermediate)
• Reporting and Interpretation (Intermediate)
• Financial Acumen (Intermediate)
• Customer Advice (Technical) (Intermediate)

Behavioural Competencies

• Professional/Technical learning (Intermediate)
• People Management and Empowerment (Intermediate)
• Interpersonal Effectiveness (Intermediate)
• Problem Solving and Analysis (Intermediate)
• Teamwork and Cooperation (Intermediate)
• Communicating with Impact (Intermediate)
• Relationship Management and Networking (Intermediate)
• Customer Orientation (Intermediate)