The group’s corporate centre includes many of the critical functions required by a large and complex financial services business. It represents custodianship and has ultimate accountability to external stakeholders such as shareholders and regulators.
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To provide a proactive, in-house Tax Risk service to the Retail & Commercial Bank of the FirstRand Group. The person will be deployed to the Retail & Commercial Bank (FNB & WesBank) and required to travel within the various campuses ie: BankCity; Fairlands and Sandton (as maybe necessary) together with working in a hybrid working environment (home and office).
Attending, and providing Tax risk insight to various Retail & Commercial committees;
Attending various Tax Forums within Retail & Commercial and assisting with the preparation of the Agenda’s for such meetings;
Reviewing, advising and making recommendations in respect of the Direct Tax implications of Retail & Commercial transactions and products;
Identifying Direct Tax risks within the various areas within Retail & Commercial and finding appropriate solutions;
Ensuring that any transaction, product or query, which has other tax implications, such as Value-Added Tax or Employees’ Tax implications, is discussed with the relevant Tax experts within FRGT;
Providing Tax advice with the objective of optimising the Tax and risk profile and identifying Tax saving opportunities;
Establishing, communicating and implementing Taxation policies and frameworks;
Monitoring compliance with Tax legislation;
Communicating changes to Tax legislation and judicial decisions;
Co-ordinating Tax training and update sessions;
Ability to support business areas in respect of client’s Tax queries;
Ability to ensure relevant systems are developed in compliance with Tax legislation;
Managing Tax related projects as and when the need arises;
Building new and enhancing existing working relationships with Retail & Commercial; RMB; FCC; Ashburton and any other Brands, as maybe necessary.
Escalation of Tax issues to management, where necessary
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