Group Tax Assistant Accountant at Aspen Pharma Group

JOB PURPOSE

To effectively manage the tax reporting solutions of Group Tax

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

SAP implementation:

• Actively participate, as the Group Tax Prepare a requirements document for the SAP implementation, with the support of the GTM and the GTA, and ensure these requirements are incorporated in the SAP project plan/backward integrated into existing SAP S 4 HANA environments.
• representative on all SAP implementations.

Vertex:

• Act as super user for Vertex.
• Prepare a requirements document for the Vertex implementation, with the support of the GTM and the GTA, and ensure these requirements are incorporated in the SAP project plan/backward integrated into existing SAP S 4 HANA environments.
• Actively participate, as the Group Tax representative on all Vertex implementations.
• Work with our advisors/consultants to ensure all changes that are required in Vertex are made, for all Group companies that have activated Vertex, with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTRM.

TRCS:

• Act as super user for TRCS.
• Once notified by the GTM that changes are required to be made to the rules in TRCS, work with our service providers to ensure that the rules are updated and that they generate the correct result, with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA.
• Once notified by the GTM that the statutory tax rate has changed, work with our service providers to ensure that the rules are updated and that they generate the correct result, with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA.
• Maintain a log of all changes that are being made to TRCS.
• Create a schedule to receive changes in the TRCS users and implement that schedule to ensure that the rules are updated and that they generate the correct result and that the workflows are released in accordance with the schedule, with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA.
• Regularly engage with the professional team to create new reports so that they can effectively monitor and undertake their work. Once new reports are identified or amendments to existing reports are identified, work with our service providers to ensure that the rules are updated and that they generate the correct result, with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA and the GTM.
• Update all templates that are being used by the Group Tax team, to the extent that there is a change in the chart of accounts master data and other data that is being collected by the Group Finance Consolidation team (this would be to ensure that we are not requesting duplicate information from the broader finance community), with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA.
• Monitor that our service provider is testing the impact of changes that are released by Oracle on our development environment and reporting that no adverse impacts will arise, once the Oracle changes are moved into the production environment, with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA.
• Act as the first line of support for the business, to the extent that the GTS is unable to resolve the issue experienced by the Group company.
• Develop new ways of preparing corporate tax calculations, with the support of the GTM, using the information that is extracted from SAP and ensure these are implemented, with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA.

EPRCS:

• Act as super user for EPRCS.
• Obtain employee numbers from the team responsible for preparing the Integrated Report and insert those into TRCS, with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA.
• Run the country by country report, review it for accuracy and submit the same to the GTS responsible for managing Aspen Holdings’ tax affairs so that it can be uploaded on SARS E-filing, with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA, with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA.
• Once new reports are identified or amendments to existing reports are identified, work with our service providers to ensure that the rules are updated and that they generate the correct result, with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA.
• Update all templates that are being used by the Group Tax team, to the extent that there is a change in the chart of accounts master data and other data that is being collected by the Group Finance Consolidation team (this would be to ensure that we are not requesting duplicate information from the broader finance community) , with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA.
• change in the chart of accounts master data and other data that is being collected by the Group Finance Consolidation team (this would be to ensure that we are not requesting duplicate information from the broader finance community) , with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA.
• Monitor that our service provider is testing the impact of changes that are released by Oracle on our development environment and reporting that no adverse impacts will arise, once the Oracle changes are moved into the production environment, with the approval of work being undertaken by the GTA.

Skills development:

Participate in the on-boarding of new employee’s, providing them with training in relation to the systems that are used by Group Tax for which you act as super user.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• B. Com Hons (Taxation) or B.Com with H.Dip Tax
• Masters in Taxation or similar qualification an advantage
• CA (SA) an advantage
• 4 - 6yrs experience in tax

WORK-SPECIFIC SKILLS & EXPOSURE:

• Experience in designing, implementing, configuring and working with financial and/or tax systems
• Data modelling, analytics and visualisation experience
• Knowledge of tax principles and transfer pricing principles

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES:

• Independent worker
• Self-motivated and highly productive
• High levels of accuracy and strong analytical skills
• High dependable and dedicated to the work under their management
• High levels of business acumen
• Project management skills including effective management of projects
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to effectively manage the implementation of proposals/acquisitions
• Good opinion writing skills
• Ability to understand and interpret the impact of tax law changes on the business
• Business;
• Processes;
• Job;
• Policy and procedures;
• Finance;
• Systems;
• Product;
• industry

KNOWLEDGE:

• Knowledge of tax and finance technologies, including SAP, systems of tax reporting, tax compliance and analytics