Fresh Positions 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 

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Job Description

• To ensure the efficient execution of marketing strategies and campaigns to maximize the impact on the target audience and achieve business objectives.
• To assist in streamlining and optimizing the processes and systems involved in bringing a product or service to a segment/ market. 

Responsibilities

Tactical Implementation

• Collaborate with marketing leaders to implement segment go-to-market strategies by coordinating various marketing activities, including product launches, promotions, and campaigns.
• Work with Marketing teams to provide recommendations based on insights. Collaborate with various stakeholders throughout the organisation to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.

This includes:

• Collaborating with Brand and Strategy team to both understand areas for improvement, consultation and further explorations as well as to advise on trends and insights gained
• Collaborating with GTM community and segment regarding campaign processes, workflows etc.
• Conduct research on industry trends, competitive landscape, and customer behavior to inform marketing strategies and identify new opportunities.

GTM Planning, Coordination Delivery

• Collaborate with marketing leaders to implement go-to-market strategies by coordinating various marketing activities, including product launches, promotions, and campaigns within the segment
• Oversee marketing projects, timelines, and deadlines, ensuring that campaigns are executed on time and within budget
  Support the implementation of activities in the relevant Segment Marketing portfolio through accumulation of market and product intelligence and efficient project coordination. 
• Ensure best practice in marketing within the channel in alignment with the organisational and segment strategy. Provide training and support to marketing team members on new tools, processes, and best practices.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including sales, product development, and customer support, to ensure alignment and coordination in executing go-to-market plans. 
• Ensure that execution of plans are aligned to local market preferences
• Analyze marketing data and metrics to assess the performance of campaigns and initiatives. Use data insights to make data-driven decisions and recommendations for future strategies.
• Create and maintain documentation of marketing processes, performance reports, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of marketing campaigns.
• Support and coordinate work to be performed by service providers
• Establish the most efficient use of resources, i.e. cost, people, time, etc.
• Put effective methods and standards in place

Process Optimization

• Define and monitor the execution of processes and procedures for the BU Portfolio. Ensure that workflow continues without interruption 
• Ensure that all processes and procedures implemented are aligned to the set operational framework for the BU
• Evaluate existing marketing processes and identify areas for improvement, streamlining workflows, and ensuring that marketing operations run smoothly and efficiently.
• Evaluate, select, and manage marketing technology tools and software platforms that enhance marketing operations and enable better tracking and reporting
• Create and maintain documentation of marketing processes, performance reports, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of marketing campaigns.

Reporting

• Identify and prepare relevant information and data for reporting purposes
• Make assessments of and draw solutions from qualitative data. Make logical deductions and draw conclusions that can be motivated
• Create and maintain documentation of marketing processes, performance reports, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of marketing campaigns.

Governance, Policies, Quality and Procedures

• Input into the establishment of systems and sound practices in order to comply with best practices, legislation or other regulations and guidelines
• Ensure that marketing activities comply with relevant laws and regulations, such as GDPR or industry-specific guidelines.
• Ensure effective implementation of (and compliance towards) company policies, processes, and procedures
• Assist with providing solutions to escalations that impact on critical path of service delivery
• Proactively flag and escalate issues and manage impacts on resources, cost and productivity
• Check, analyse and understand regulatory and technological environments and shifts which impact the business, continuously. 
• Establish and maintain quality standards that will enhance the customer experience and cost efficiency
• Work consistently according to standard operating procedures 
• Understand the quality standards of the job and the reason for these standards, and communicate these reasons to others 
• Understand and communicate the consequences of not maintaining quality focus 
• Seek feedback from clients and stakeholders and continuously seeks ways of improving on quality and customer service standards

People & Culture Management

• Enable and model healthy employee relations and collaborative teamwork
• Contribute to building a culture of continuous evaluation and improvement. Drive a culture of high performance, accountability and consequence management
• Act as an ambassador for the Brand and Marketing team by living the Brand values and vital behaviours and changing and influencing employees’ behaviour
• Make the environment the best place to work. Foster professionalism, loyalty and commitment to the organization. Build the Company’s brand to be the employer of first choice

Qualifications

Education

• 3 year Degree / Diploma in Commerce (Marketing / Communication) or related
• Relevant certification / accreditation / membership with professional body as required for role

Experience 

Minimum 2 years’ experience including:

• Relevant sector/industry/area of specialisation (understanding emerging markets advantageous)
• Worked across diverse projects, cultures and geographies
• Experience working in a medium to large organization