Senior Manager - Head of Tax Finance at MTN

Responsibilities

Tax Strategic Planning & Advisory

• Co-design, with GM: FinOps, and co-ordinate the organisational Tax Strategy
• Ensure that the Tax team provides valuable Tax advice to the business through business partnership.
• Enable the team to identify Tax saving opportunities for the organisation.
• Assist in the development of tax optimisation projects and implementation of tax strategies to ensure effective tax planning.
• Provide faster insights-driven advisory on tax implication of projects, contracts and transactions.
• Ensure the provision of project decision support driven by effective policies and procedures.
• Provide automated advice on Tax implications from projects for the business.
• Provide inputs into business planning through Tax planning insights.
• Evaluate potential tax impacts of business decisions.
• Ensure upskilling on Tax legislation through capacity enhancement and ensure timely advice on Tax implications from changes in legislation.

Compliance

• Ensure that all automatically generated tax returns required by the authorities are submitted timeously and accurately.
• Ensure that legal and regulatory correspondence is provided timeously to the relevant stakeholders, supported by AI/Cognitive accurately and complete and timeous SARS & legal correspondence.
• Timeous SARS payments

Reporting

• Ensure that all automated tax reported amounts are valid, accurate, complete and reported in the appropriate periods.
• Ensure the accurate and timeous reporting of group total contribution amounts.
• Ensure Automated provisional tax computation
• Ensure real-time reporting to tax authorities
• Ensure an automated end to end income tax reporting process (incl. computations, provisioning and returns).
• Ensure automated SARS Reconciliations & journals
• Enable automated indirect tax computation enabled by advanced analytics

Risk Management

• Ensure the maintenance of a Tax register and that this is updated continuously
• Oversee the performance of Tax data analysis for risk identification
• Enable the updating / Maintaining of PPPs
• Ensure proactive Risk identification and register maintenance enabled by advanced analytics
• Ensure compliance with MTN SA tax policy

Technology & Data

• Ensure that the Tax Technology tool in use is configured, maintained and updated accordingly
• Enable Tax Data Analysis
• Oversee the automated end-to-end tax reporting process
• Oversee the automated end-to-end tax compliance process

Stakeholder management

• Drive the training and rollout of tax updates and policies that affect the respective regions.
• Ensure the provision of timeous and accurate reports to governance structures
• Ensure that input into legislative decision making is business led from the MTN SA team
• Ensure timeous updates on Tax legislation to relevant stakeholders
• Ensure that Reports(i.e. exposures, interest, et. al.) are automatically generated to MTN SA governance structures
• Ensure workflow based support for SARS queries

International Tax

• Ensure timeous file submissions for reporting
• Ensure appropriate benchmarking is performed for transfer pricing purposes
• Ensure accurate and timeous reporting of reportable irregularities
• Reporting of reportable arrangements
• Ensure automated Tax computation in respect of CFCs
• Enable faster, standardised determination of Tax implications for cross-border transactions

Supervisory / Leadership / Managerial Complexity: Refers to the responsibilities for directing, guiding, motivating, and influencing others. 

• Recruit, develop and retain people with outstanding skills, qualifications, and potential 
• Define the divisional KPAs and KPIs that will be cascaded down to each area 
• Performance management and identification of training needs 
• Build talent by identifying and developing new leaders for the respective environment 
• Employee relations and collaborative teamwork 
• Coaching and guidance of subordinates 
• Build professionalism, loyalty, and commitment to the organization 
• Communicate actively and effectively resolving any potential conflicts that may arise 
• Display an understanding of the strategic nature of effective leadership in the organisation 

Required Skills & Capabilities 

• Expertise in Direct and Indirect Tax compliance and reporting
• Experience in staff management peer management, and stakeholder management
• Experience in working within the Tech, Media, and Telecoms Industry
• Proficiency in Tax Strategy implementation
• Understanding of Accounting for Tax
• Knowledge of Tax Modelling
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload, including co-ordinating with others and ensuring that statutory and other deadlines are met. 
• To work as part of a team and independently to deliver a common goal or objective 
• Ability to deal with difficult situations and make decisions on the best course of action
• Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Excel and Word
• Strategic thinking (new risks and opportunities), problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills
• Risk Intelligent
• Proficiency in relationship building, networking, persuasion, and influential skills.
• Business Partnering for Value Realisation 
• Excellent verbal, written communication, and negotiation skills
• Good technical, business, and global acumen. Future focused
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Assertive
• Storytelling
• Innovative
• Data analysis & visualisation
• Technological expertise
• Emotional Intelligence
• Negotiation, influencing and relationship building
• Legal skills
• Project management

Key Deliverables

• Execute governance and compliance models and frameworks in order to identify and manage risk liabilities.
• Make recommendations for alignment of strategies and objectives according to knowledge gained from reports and analysis.
• Ensuring efficient and effective tax internal controls are rolled out and consistently applied 
• Training and rollout of tax updates and policies that affect the organisation
• Assist in the development of tax optimisation projects and implementation of tax strategies to ensure effective tax planning.
• Enforcement and compliance of various tax legislation that affects all units within the organisation
• Tax saving opportunities

Qualifications

Education:

• Chartered Accountant or Admitted Attorney
• Post graduate tax qualification (Masters in Tax)

Experience:

• 8+ years in corporate, indirect, withholding tax, and international taxes
• 6+ years in tax strategy implementation, planning support, and project management
• Senior management track record of 5 years or more; with at least 3 years in relevant sector/ industry as per relevant role