Senior Tax Specialist at Altron Bytes Systems Integration

JOB PURPOSE:

• The Senior Tax Specialist is responsible for overseeing and managing all domestic and international tax-related matters within the organization, ensuring compliance with tax laws and regulations. 

The role includes: 

• Preparation, review, and submission of tax filings, management of tax audits and disputes.
• Providing tax advice on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate reorganizations.
• Provide tax advice on cross border transactions, including preparation, review and submission of CFC returns, preparation of transfer pricing documentation, preparation of withholding taxes and foreign tax credit schedules.
• Other tax related areas, including capital gains tax, dividends tax, VAT, PAYE and Customs, while offering strategic input on tax planning and risk management.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Income Tax

• Manage the preparation, review and submission of tax packs, provisional tax returns (IRP6) and income tax returns (ITR14), e-filing tax payments and other related tax documentation, ensuring accuracy and compliance with deadlines.

Capital Gains Tax

• Prepare detailed calculations on capital transactions, ensuring accurate reporting and compliance with CGT regulations.
• Mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations
• Provide analysis and tax advice on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate reorganizations to optimize tax efficiency.

Dividends Tax

• Ensure correct calculation and timely submission of dividends tax returns.
• VAT, PAYE and Customs
• On an ad hoc basis, prepare, review and submission of VAT and PAYE returns.
• Provide tax advice on internal and SARS queries, including verifications, requests for information, audits and disputes.
• Provide oversight and tax advice on Customs duties, ensuring compliance with South African Customs Laws.

Tax Dispute Resolution

• Handle tax disputes with the South African Revenue Service (SARS), including objections, appeals, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) proceedings.
• Act as the liaison between SARS and the organization, ensuring favourable resolutions.
• Prepare, submit, and manage objections and appeals.

Tax Advisory & Opinion Writing

• Provide technical tax opinions on complex tax matters, including but not limited to corporate transactions, reorganizations.
• Conduct research and provide tax advice to business units and executive management on various tax-related issues.

Ad hoc requests/ Special Assignments:

• Execute special tax reviews or ad hoc tax projects.
• Assist in the performance of special reviews requested by management.
• Prepare clear and concise reports for ad hoc projects/assignments, and further present the reports to management.

Quality:

• Execute/assist in completion of all tax work in accordance with quality standards.
• Ensure tax business is conducted in accordance with quality standards and code of ethics.
• Prepare clear and concise reports for tax and ad hoc engagements performed.

COMMUNICATIONS & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

• Manage relationships with Group and Operational Management, and act as a trusted advisor.

Internal: 

• Operations Management
• Group Management
• Finance Team members across Altron
• Reasons for Interaction: 
• Internal Tax execution and reporting of Internal Tax findings.

External: 

• Service Providers and other third parties

SARS

Reasons for Interaction: 

• Tax execution and reporting of Tax findings.

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS:

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Commerce degree (in Accounting or Taxation)
• Masters in Taxation will be advantageous

Years of Experience

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in a tax-related role

Skills

• Adherence to principles and values
• Assertive, decisive, and self-confident
• Analytical, logical, and methodical
• Project and time management
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation)
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Willingness to learn/grow (ambitious)
• Stress tolerance
• Resilience
• Proficiency with MS Office, SARS e-filing and other tax reporting tools

COMPETENCIES:

• Behaviours Required: 
• Results orientation: Driving results and delivery and instilling a sense of urgency.
• Responsible and reliable: Demonstrate responsible and reliable behaviour.
• Understand interdependency: Understand interdependency of own role and team roles on other parts of the business.
• Focus: Ability to focus with sustained attention until desired outcomes have been achieved.
• Problem solving: Ability to analyse, integrate and apply knowledge and experience in order to find solutions.
• Collaboration with others: Work with others to exercise judgement around opportunities that represent the most potential for innovation and return on investment for Altron and its stakeholders.
• Inclusiveness: Builds good working relationships with people of all other cultures and backgrounds – continually examining own biases and behaviours to avoid stereotypical responses.
• Negotiation: Ability to negotiate (work goals).
• Work ethic: Demonstrates strong work ethic.
• Fairness: Treats people with dignity, respect, and fairness; gives proper credit to others; stands up for deserving others and their ideas when appropriate.
• Bring the energy: Display high levels of commitment, enthusiasm and maintains a positive attitude.
• Ethical: Demonstrates honesty; keeps commitments; behaves in a consistent manner; abides by moral principles; shares thoughts, feelings, and rationale so that others understand personal positions.
• Live the values: Lead by example; values visible in everyday behaviour.