Senior Tax Consultant - Johannesburg at KPMG South Africa

Purpose of the Job:

• To provide a wide range of tax process and technology advisory services to a large portfolio of clients (internal and external). Work in multidisciplinary teams, including various Tax teams, Technology analysts and Data & Analytical teams across the firm.

Key job duties or responsibilities:

• Basic operational support for Data and Analytics solutions including database administration, database backup and restore.
• Perform the Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) process of financial data for all tax technology projects.
• Troubleshooting and debugging of ETL components used including SQL, Alteryx, Azure Data Factory and other solutions.
• Visualising data sets for analysis using data visualisation tools such as Power BI and QlikView.
• Assist with execution and improvement of local/global solutions and other product offerings.
• Design and develop data models for automation and analytical purposes.
• Drive efficiencies through automation and enablement of technology for tax reporting requirements using technologies such as UIPath, Alteryx, Power Platform etc.
• Analyse and understand the flow of transactional data across financial systems and how they impact the company’s direct and indirect tax declarations and obligations.
• Advise clients on how to sustain tax data quality standards in financial systems to enhance tax processes, operations and effectiveness of tax reporting.
• Prepare clear, sound, accurate working papers and reports containing work procedures, findings, conclusions and recommendations.
• Review the configuration of ERP systems for the management of direct and indirect tax to ensure conformity with the relevant standards.
• Contribute to pursuit/sales efforts to meet budgetary targets (form part of team to meet with clients to sell tax technology).

Critical Interpersonal or Interactive skills

• A self-starter and take initiative
• An analytical mind and inclination for problem-solving
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Understand new technological trends in the market (robotics, artificial intelligence)
• Good communication and skills to train people on the job
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines (manage projects IT component)
• Team player with good interpersonal skills
• High level of competence, ability to operate and think on feet and has attention to detail

Qualifications and experience

• CA (SA) or B Comm Degree or Information Technology degree
• At least 4 years relevant experience in a tax and/or accounting and/or data engineering/analytics
• Basic understanding of data management concepts.
• Experience in the development and/or implementation of accounting and/or tax technology tools
• Good command of key IT tools, particularly MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Good understanding of various accounting information systems, including but not limited to, SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards etc. (data extraction experience is essential)
• Understanding of various data and analytical tools, including but not limited to, QlikView, Power BI, SQL, Microsoft Azure, and/or other data query and dashboarding solutions)
• Understanding of various process automation tools such as UIPath, Alteryx, Power Platform
• Should have good data analytical and interpretational skills, numerical and research skills (data and analytical skills)