Tax Compliance Manager at KPMG South Africa

Job Description

• As a Tax Manager, you will play a crucial role in ensuring compliance with tax laws and regulations while providing strategic tax planning and expertise. Your responsibilities will span various tax-related functions, and you’ll be a key advisor. If you’re passionate about tax, have strong analytical skills, and enjoy contributing to organizational success, this role is for you!

Position specifications

• Educational (minimum level necessary to perform the job)

Professional/Tertiary

• B.Com in Accounting or equivalent tertiary qualification
• Post-graduate Tax qualification or significant experience in similar roles (preference will go do HDipTax / Masters in Tax holders)

Other requirements

• Advanced knowledge of Excel, MS Office, Word

Experience (minimum years of experience and in which fields, required to perform the job)

• Must have experience in compilation and submission of Income Tax and VAT returns for mid-sized corporations in South Africa.
• Experience with managing payroll related taxation (PAYE, UIF etc.).
• Experience with cross-border, transfer pricing and export transactions.
• Experience with managing foreign withholding tax and the taxation of permanent establishments.
• Tax/Accounting experience, minimum 10 years
• Experience in a professional services firm preferable

Core competencies required for the job

• Champion inclusion
•  Advance on ethical environment
• Make sound decisions
• Demonstrate self-awareness
• Drive quality
• Apply a strategic perspective
• Foster innovation
• Build collaborative relationships
• Develop and motivate others
• The ability to work well under pressure and to perform to deadlines
• Strong organisation skills: a self-starter with initiative and a commonsense approach to problem solving.
• Deadlines are non-negotiable

List of key performance areas and key performance indicators

Measurement

• List the tasks underpinning the responsibility
• (focus on the complexity of the job whilst providing the detail)
• Functional knowledge
• (the requirements for technical knowledge of functional work and activities)
• Ensures that KPMG meets tax compliance deadlines.
• Establishes best practices for tax governance and ensures that these practices are used throughout the Southern African cluster.

Business expertise

• (the job’s requirements for knowledge and expertise about the business rather than the technical expertise)
• Deliver a Full Range of Tax Services:
• Ensure compliance with tax laws and regulations within specified timeframes.
• Provide innovative tax planning strategies.
• Review complex income tax returns.

Risk Identification and Mitigation:

• Identify and mitigate tax risks.
• Coordinate with accounting staff and tax advisory professionals.
• Improve processes by implementing best practices.

Tax Provision and Compliance:

• Manage tax provision and compliance processes.
• Handle tax audits.
• Maintain tax balances on the general ledger.

Leadership

• (the requirements of the job for providing leadership and guidance to others, it measures the nature and breadth of the leadership)
• No people management experience necessary but engagement with senior leadership / EXCO / Boards will be advantageous.
• Nature of impact
• (measures how the job impacts the business by measuring the overall responsibility associated with the job)
• Primarily responsible for establishing a tax compliance office in South Africa, with all ancillary controls and checks.
• Includes but not limited to Income Tax, VAT, Withholding Taxes, PAYE etc.
• Review all regulatory tax submissions for the region (Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Mauritius and South Africa)
• Acts as key resource in tax compliance changes.

Area of impact

• (measures how wide the impact of the job is within the organisation)
• Set policies and update tax policies for the region.
• Work closely with finance manager in preparation of regulatory submissions and Annual Financial Statements.
• Interpersonal skills
• (the level and type of people skills required to perform this job on an ongoing basis)
• Champions the interaction between Finance, leadership and regulatory bodies.
• Problem solving
• (measures the mental skills required to perform this job and the complexity of typical problems)
• Prepare and review business procedure documentation to ensure they reflect process/system changes.

Level of decision-making / authority

• (the level of decision-making that is required in order to perform this job)
• Implement tax changes.
• Regulatory scanning.
• Communications to firm