POSITION: FINANCIAL COORDINATOR: TAX & COMPLANCE (C2)
DEPARTMENT: FINANCE
LOCATION: CAPE TOWN
Are you passionate about compliance and getting the financial details just right? If tax laws and regulatory frameworks make your brain light up, we’d love to welcome you to the PEP Africa family.
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION: To provide administrative support within the Tax and Compliance function by ensuring monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc compliance, management of company secretarial and tax processes. This role also supports Country Financial Managers across five countries to ensure effective communication and resolution of queries or issues.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- General Compliance
- Liaise with FMs, Pepkor Legal and company secretaries regarding Country Company Secretarial matters
- Maintain contract register and electronic filing of contracts and checklists
- Maintain licence register and electronic filing of licences
- Obtain quarterly confirmation from country FMs on compliance with relevant laws and regulations
- Tax Compliance
- Assist with preparation of supporting schedules for corporate tax submissions
- Assist with responding to and resolving tax queries
- Ensure a proper up to date understanding of the key taxes and relevant regulatory environment regarding all taxes in each country including RSA (including Income Tax, VAT, Stamp Duties, Import Duties, WHT, thin capitalization and transfer pricing)
- Tax Accounting and Reporting
- Adhere to strict reporting deadlines in order to deliver on time and to a high quality to all customers and stakeholders
- Assisting with quarterly reporting to Pepkor Group Tax
- Assisting with tax and general audits
- Reviewing tax accounting entries and balance sheet reconciliations
- Policies and SOPs
- Ensure maintenance and compliance of policies and SOPs, including Contract Approvals, Approval Framework,Tax reports and submissions
- Regular communication to all role-players to address questions, issues, irregularities etc.
- Ad hoc duties
- Ad hoc duties and involvement in projects as required
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Tertiary degree in Accounting / Tax
- 3+ years relevant experience in a tax or accounting role
- Experience in liaising with regulators on tax
- Experience in a multinational environment advantageous
- Knowledge of IFRS, IAS 12, deferred tax will be advantageous.
- Aptitude to work with various currencies
- English communication skills (verbal & written)
- Ability to work in a team and independently
- Computer literacy – Intermediate
- South African Citizen
Competencies required: Honesty; Passion & Resourcefulness; Solution orientation; Detail orientation; Planning, Organizing and Control; Service orientation; Stress tolerance; Confidence and decisiveness; Building and maintaining relationships, Ability to function independently and Excellent communication skills.
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