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Description
BDO has a vacancy for an Associate Director: Corporate Tax Compliance. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Tax Compliance you will inter alia be responsible for:
- Assisting BDO to achieve its financial targets driving the BDO people, brand, business development, technical tax competence and client service in line with BDO values.
- Reviewing technical documents by utilizing a sound knowledge of basic income tax and corporate law.
- Reviewing income tax returns (ITR14 / IT12EI) and supporting tax schedules.
- Reviewing provisional tax calculations.
- Reviewing objection and appeals and responses to SARS queries.
- Reviewing withholding tax returns.
- Assisting with the research and preparation of proposals.
- Adapting to a changing work environment and accommodate changing client demands.
- Liaising with audit partners and audit staff with regards to tax issues.
- Liaising with SARS.
- Visiting clients to discuss tax issues and assist clients with SARS audit and queries.
- Managing monthly invoices and outstanding debtors.
- Producing accurate work to a high technical standard while coaching and mentoring junior staff.
- Quality control of all deliverables and ensuring compliance with the BDO risk policies and procedures.
- Financial disciple and ensuring assignments are delivered on time and within budget.
- Managing of staff and deadlines.
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Minimum B.Com with post graduate specialism (M.Com, LLM (Tax Law) or Hdip (Tax)).
Experience:
- Minimum of 15 years’ corporate tax experience.
- 5 years’ managerial experience.
Competencies:
- Excellent communication and listening skills.
- Build strong and effective relationships with internal and external clients ensuring a professional and quality service that meets required expectations and needs.
- Building a successful team
- Innovatively improving systems, processes and procedures.
- Confident and decisive with excellent planning and organizing abilities.
- Ability to work under pressure and achieve reporting deadlines.
- Need to be able to manage staff and deal with staff issues.
- Need to be able to communicate with clients.
- Should be able to work towards and meet specific deadlines.
- Should be able to work under pressure.
- Need to be assertive and pro-active.
- Accounting background would be preferable.
- Must have good knowledge and understanding of South African Income Tax.
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Primary Purpose of the Job
The Senior Manager will lead our project management, digital transformation, and specialist advisory projects within FS. It will be the job of the Advisory Senior Manager to provide specialist oversight and guidance to the team. The Advisory Senior Manager will also mentor, upskill and coach the existing team to ensure that we build a sustainable specialist FS advisory team.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Take ownership of, and manages work assignments (any budget or complexity) to completion within the allocated time frame and to an appropriate standard (quality), through:
- Proper planning before the assignment, appropriate coaching during the assignment, attention to quality of the deliverable and the supporting documentation, adequately completing provisions,
- Managing the WIP appropriately and within budget, where applicable, billing the engagement, and closing the engagement.
- Is an effective project manager and coaches other to be effective project managers.
- Agrees development plan with the partner at the start of the assignment
- Coaches the team in the writing of Management Letter Points (MLPs) of an appropriate standard for weaknesses identified. Discusses with the client and obtains their comments.
- Reviews written documents to ensure that they are organised, well-written, referenced, and easy to follow.
- Establish effective working relationships directly with key clients, and broader BDO stakeholders.
- Understand what the company you are working on, actually does and how they make revenue.
- Bring industry insights and recommendations to the client during client discussions.
- Ensures value-added delivery to the client driving sustainability of client relationship and work allocation.
- Drives up-selling and cross-selling opportunities at the client.
- Reviews general IT control testing and documentation/assigned scope of work.
- Understands the relevance of application controls workings and reviews the testing and documentation.
- Leads meetings with the key client stakeholders and internal senior stakeholders in the absence of the partner.
- Review project risks, processes, and controls.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the client’s processes and methodologies, including the reviews of process flows.
- Can work in, manage and coach teams and effectively communicate across different levels within the organisation. Is able to run multiple engagements concurrently.
- Mentor, coach, upskill and supervise managers.
- Has a focus on building the business and be able to identify potential leads. Drives these with the client through to conclusion and winning the work.
- Run with the end-to-end proposal and business development process.
- Coordinate and lead meetings with C-level client stakeholders.
- Actively seek out new client opportunities and relationships as part of the team’s business development.
- Has a strategic view of the business and, together with the partners, develops/evolves the business strategy, new initiatives. Drives these to operationalisation/business as usual. Has a strong strategic view of the business that encompasses more than client assignments.
- Able to lead initiatives from commencement to conclusion with minimal coaching and mentoring. Understands when to request input or assistance.
- Owns and drives an area of focus for the business under the guidance and coaching of the partners. Ensures sustainability and no key person dependency in the maturation of the allocation business area.
- Provides coaching to managers responsible for operational roles in the business.
- Demonstrate market presence, networking, thought leadership advancement, though leadership pieces
- Support broader FS business initiatives and also expected to live the BDO values.
- Ensure compliance with the engagement performance process
Requirements
Qualifications, Recognition of Prior Learning, Work Experience, and Knowledge
Qualifications/Recognition of Prior Learning equivalent
- BSc. Computer Science; or
- BCom. Information Systems/Informatics; or
- Bcom Accounting; or Equivalent
Work Experience and Knowledge
- Minimum 12 years’ experience in IT external audit, IT internal audit and/or IT advisory
- Proficient in senior stakeholder management
- CISA
- Certification in IT management, IT Risk or CRISC is advantageous
- Experience in Financial Services clients
- Proven experience in dealing with senior IT executives advising on IT strategy and IT risks
Competencies: Technical & Behavioural
Technical Competencies
- IT external audit
- IT internal audit
- IT Risk management
- Project risk assurance
- Emerging technology risk assurance
Behavioural Competencies
- Effective Communication Skills, both written and verbal.
- Problem-solving techniques and effective conflict management skills.
- Must have a customer first execution philosophy. Demonstrate awareness of business and industry dynamics. Ability to analyse technology trends and operational business issues and make informed decisions.
- Must demonstrate the ability to respond effectively to changing environments (expected and unexpected). Ability to evolve own ideas and solutions in response to changing circumstances.
- Must have an awareness and openness to diversity – promote inclusion and sharing of ideas and convey respect for different perspectives.
- Demonstrate the ability to use different problem-solving strategies and select the one that best meets the requirements of the situation. Keep the big picture of the problem in mind while focusing on its specifics.
- Must have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Demonstrate the ability to effectively interpret the needs of all stakeholders, respond to their needs, and manage expectations.
- Ability to collaborate with all stakeholders in the pursuit of common goals. Must have strong interpersonal skills to manage large teams with influence.
- Must be a proven leader and manager, able to take charge and act assertively without guidance. Use business criteria and values to evaluate alternative courses of action. Make a timely choice based on the options and information available
- Focus on desired results and business outcomes. Must be both a problem solver and a risk taker. Define performance standards in terms of doing what is appropriate (and doing it well). Work to achieve goals despite barriers or difficulties. Must be able to engage, build and manage relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders. Demonstrate the ability to
- handle and resolve conflict situations to ensure ongoing goal achievement.
- Practical orientation and current knowledge in the areas of enterprise architecture design (including cloud architectures), platform and application design principles, data management standards and analytical methods, security principles, redundancy, data protection and recovery systems.
BDO Core Competencies
- Relationships and Collaboration
- Exceptional Client Service
- Business Growth
- Engaging people
- Leadership
- Quality, Risk management and Operational performance
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Description
BDO Business Services Outsourcing Services has vacancies for an Intermediate Accountant who will help in maintaining/managing portfolios of monthly and annual accounting clients.
Competencies:
- Experience in accounting and has a passion in preparing the accounting records from source to trial balance;
- Tech savvy and adaptability to using multiple cloud-based accounting platforms, including experience in working on the cloud when generating accounting records
- Previous experience in managing own client portfolio, including the onboarding of clients, client interaction and communications throughout the accounting assignment up until the delivery
- Requires little to no guidance when it comes to completing the accounting for multiple and various clients
- Ability to work on international projects and foreign clients
- Good knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) and IFRS for Small- and Medium-sized Entities (“IFRS for SMEs”)
- Preparation of annual financial statements and experience in the tools used to preparing financial statements
- Performing tax computations for companies, close corporations and trusts (including
- SBC’s, special allowances (s12C, s12E, etc)
- Proposing journals to client (via Senior / Manager)
- Self-disciplined
- Has a high regard of SOPs and follow process and procedure
- Excellent time management skills and responsible for managing own schedule according to client deadlines and delivery dates
- Reporting to a supervisor & efficient feedback on progress of engagements
- Managing own WIP and budgets on engagements
Additional Competencies:
- Compilation Engagements in terms of ISRS 4410
- Independent Review Engagements in terms of ISRE 2400
- Accounting Officer Engagements in terms of Close Corporations Act
- Other duties as may be required in line with the position.
Requirements
Qualifications and Experience:
- B.Com Financial Accounting
- Completion of SAIPA/SAICA articles
- Ability to work in a team and independently
- Good communication skills, internal and external, both written and verbal
- Working knowledge of most commonly used accounting packages (for reporting purposes and ad-hoc processing)
- Detailed knowledge of Caseware, Xero, Dext and other cloudbased accounting tools that are used in the app marketplace.
- Understanding of Afrikaans is recommended
- Ability to work under pressure
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