Regional Services Africa AM at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

Responsibilities

Core Activities

• Manage multiple large multinational engagements across Africa

Overall responsibility of the compliance deliverables across all African countries which include adherence to implemented and agreed processes; contractual arrangements and review quality of deliverables such as:

• Preparation or review of corporate income tax returns and consolidation of filing positions across multiple countries, if required
• Preparation of legislative update reports across multiple countries and discussions with clients on actions to be taken to ensure implementation of changes or ongoing compliance
• Maintenance of issue trackers to ensure progress is made and continuous improvement plans are executed on which include assistance with tax audits, ad hoc tax requests, etc
• Implementation or enhancement of tax compliance processes and ensuring standardization across African countries
• Facilitation of client workshops such as compliance training and “lessons learned of tax cycles”, including preparation of material, dashboards and analyses
• Co-ordinating Bookkeeping services
• Co-ordinating Annual Financial Statement preparation
• Scope and review tax advisory projects that involve countries across the continent (The advice will be mainly compliance related advice) including inter alia
• New country entry, operations and exit advice
• Health-checks (including Tax landscape)
• Opinions on specific topics
• Research information required on Africa as required by clients and for internal projects
• Prepare practical and creative solutions to our client’s challenges
• Work closely with diverse African teams across 28 countries where EY has offices and other countries where we use contractors

Pursuit Activities

• Research clients and potential pursuits for the Africa region
• Prepare proposals & coordinating different service-lines
• Scoping and pricing for proposals and engagements
• Manage client relationships and identifying new business opportunities, based on technical knowledge, on existing accounts
• Ensure Quality and Risk Management processes are followed for a new client
• Coordinating across service-lines

Operational activities

• Ability to lead high performing teams while maintaining quality service delivery
• Work closely with fellow team members to ensure the effective operational running of the business
• Open engagements, opportunities and manage client WIP and billings and ensure write offs on clients are kept at a minimal
• Engagement planning and administration, including preparation of budgets, work in progress management and client billings

Qualifications & Experience

• Preferably BComm Tax, or similar Tax qualification or studying towards tax qualification
• At least 3/4 years tax experience
• Experience in managing multi-country TP; ITS or tax advisory projects will be an advantage
• Project management skills, plan and prioritize work, meet deadlines, monitor engagement metrics and junior staff
• Excellent team management skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal– expectation to facilitate client calls and training, prepare material, review and translate documents (including assessments, correspondence with Tax Authorities)
• Self-motivated with ability to work in a virtual environment is a must
• Interested in understanding and developing Africa generalist tax knowledge (direct, indirect taxes), researching trends and using technology in delivery ensuring a practical / business driven approach
• Strong attention to detail to deliver high quality output (expectation to prepare client dashboards, placemats, discussion decks and RFP responses)

Skills and Behavioral Attribute

• Confident, pro-active and responsible individual
• Self-motivated and ability to function in a fast-paced environment
• Understand and improve multiple processes
• Good interpersonal and organizational skills
• Well-developed computer literacy
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint
• Proven ability to operate efficiently within a team
• Self-starter and able to work with a minimum amount of supervision
• Able to deal with individuals from diverse groups
• Eager to learn and work on different technologies