Opportunities at Exxaro Resources

PURPOSE: 

• To identify opportunities, plan and offer practical and creative solutions in tax-related matters for benefit of the Group’s overall tax position. 
• Formulate group tax policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, processes. 
• Develop and manage tax strategy and policy, tax planning assumptions and action plan. 
• Manage selection process of Tax Consultants for outsourcing tax activities. 
• Identify opportunities and plans and offer practical and creative solutions in tax related matters. 
• Responsible to legally minimise tax liabilities through informed application of tax laws and regulations. 
• Manage tax compliance, reporting, and filing for the Group. 
• Establish appropriate system or processes for tax risk management for the Group. 
• Manage external tax authorities and consultants locally and lead and coordinate ad-hoc tax-driven business initiatives locally or regionally. 
• Provide internal tax advisory services and support on business operation matters to the Group.

MAJOR CHALLENGES: 

• Keeping abreast of changing tax legislation. 
• Skills shortage. 
• Merging technical aspects of tax with business requirements. 
• Leadership qualities that help cultivate an environment that is conducive to a high performing culture team, over and above technical accounting competency Complex local and international tax regulation and practice.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BCom LLB (Essential/Minimum or)
• BCom (Hons) (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum and)
• H Diploma: Tax (Essential/Minimum or)
• Masters in Tax Law (Essential/Minimum)
• Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE:

• 8-10 years Relevant Tax experience at operational and corporate level. Experience in tax strategy implementation, planning support and project management will be advantageous. With recommended 8-10 years’ experience in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Regulations.
• Importance : Essential/Minimum
• Involvement : Operational

REQUIREMENTS:

• Psycho
• metric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
• SA Institute of Tax Professionals (Recommended/Desirable)
• Member of Professional Body (Recommended/Desirable)

Duties & Responsibilities    

The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:

Business Performance and Operations

• Share strategic and tactical information with relevant stakeholders to discuss issues, coordinate activities and resolve problems related to execution of company strategy on a scheduled basis
• Keep abreast of new leading practices and risk mitigation in terms of Tax
• Develop and implement tax policy
• Provide expert tax advisory services to operation and growth management of the Group to support decision making
• Recommends tax strategies by researching federal, state, and local taxation issues
• Identifies profitability of potential mergers and acquisitions by analysing tax information; calculating key ratios; identifying areas of tax savings
• Participate in other projects as required
• Support and collaborate with other functions in an effort to better the processes in areas where applicable

Compliance, Governance and Assurance

• Assess, audit and ensure compliance with all tax related statutory requirements across the group
• Ensure all business and tax related operations adhere and comply with corporate governance, statutory, legal and other requirements
• Ensure policies, procedures and reporting are in alignment with legislation
• Manage risk and consequences of non-compliance
• Oversee tax processes for the group of companies

Customer and Client Relationship Management

• Manage internal and external relations, including interface with service providers and applicable Business Unit’s (BU's) and other functions responsible to ensure that business needs are met
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement forums with tax authorities and other relevant/applicable stakeholders

Financial Management

• Manage accurate and timely tax returns and reporting responsibilities for the Group
• Manage timely review and issue resolution process for all tax liabilities
• Develop and ensure implementation of tax strategy for the Group and its subsidiaries
• Ensure that Tax department budget proposal is compiled and is aligned with the overall finance strategy
• Ensure achievement of business case and cost target

Functional Excellence

• Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end-to-end processes, tools, templates etc.
• Assist in standardising, simplifying and improving functional processes, eliminating duplication/bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices/knowledge
• Assist in the execution of functional excellence initiatives

Functional Management

• Ensure function adheres to governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance
• Entrench a culture of discipline

Group Financial Accounting

• Ensure tax packs prepared in accordance with the specifications of financial reporting department
• Keep abreast with accounting policy changes and liaise with relevant stakeholders to ensure general accounting policies and regulations are executed within designated area

Group Tax Accounting

• Monitor and review Tax department performance achievement and targets, identify and analyse root cause of performance gap
• Develop and execute corrective action plans and resolve operational issues
• Support tax audit and manage relationships with various tax authorities
• Act as the key point of contact and support for our local and regional taxation matters
• Liaise with tax authorities and provide tax audit support for the Group

Internal Business Processes

• Review and approve tax transactions and documents to ensure correct calculation and compliance with applicable tax laws and regulations
• Review monthly and annual tax returns and inter-company transactions of the Group
• Monitor compliance with tax law/accounting rules, advise management on tax issues and ensure tax payments are correctly determined and paid
• Coordinate with business to determine tax impact of significant acquisition, mergers, disposal and borrowings

People Management

• Adhere to group performance management policies and procedures.
• Uphold the culture and values within the function
• Foster a climate of effective teamwork and unity (High Performing team culture)
• Develop, implement and maintain bespoke taxation talent management development and mentor program that will facilitate improvement of all taxation staff's competency index Clarify roles/responsibilities and expectations
• Define individual performance standards, monitor and measure performance, reward and recognise high performance
• Apply consistent performance and consequence management, take prompt action against non-performance
• Actively manage talent through regular assessment of employees’ strengths, development needs and development progress
• Provide ongoing mentoring, coaching and development feedback to employees
• Manage functional talent pipeline and succession planning process
• Promote culture of continuous learning
• Encourage and empower team to make decisions
• Embody, translate and entrench the culture and values in function, address behaviours that undermine values
• Proactively address conflicts, initiate difficult conversations
• Create an environment of accountability and trust

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all activities

Behavioural Alignment
Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective

The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.
If you have not been contacted within 28 days of the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.

Closing Date:2020/02/24

Reference Number:EXX200213-1

Exxaro Reference Number:P40165439
 

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PURPOSE:

• To direct and co-ordinate technical aspects through project life cycles to ensure optimum performance (according to Life of Mine, business requirements, organisational objectives) and sound engineering practice. 
• To manage medium to large discipline specific projects.

MAJOR CHALLENGES: 

• Represent operations, maintenance departments and service departments in projects. 
• Act as an interface between project teams and operational teams.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate Project Management (Recommended/Desirable)
• Gov Cert of Competence: Engineering (Recommended/Desirable)
• Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE:

• 6-8 years Relevant within a heavy industry/mining/production environment and project management. Experience as Project Manager from feasibility to ramp-up or part of large project.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in discipline engineering and project management Importance: Essential/Minimum
• Involvement:Operational

REQUIREMENTS:

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
• Engineering Council of SA (PrEng) (Essential/Minimum)
• Project Management Professional (Recommended/Desirable)

Duties & Responsibilities    
The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:

Best Practice and Knowledge Management

• Initiate continuous improvement initiatives leading to cost saving ideas
• Keeping abreast of technology trends
• Conduct applied research work in order to initiate process changes
• Provide inputs throughout the project life-cycle towards improving the process flow for projects
• Assume responsibility for engineering discipline design as representative of the operational teams in projects
• Implement knowledge management processes (professional networks).

Business Performance and Operations

• Develop and manage throughput and efficiency improvement plan and/or initiatives
• Investigate complex engineering problems and develop solutions for optimisation of engineering systems
• Communicate and obtain buy-in for implementation plans, new systems and processes
• Liaising with operational, maintenance, services and project teams.

Compliance, Governance and Assurance

• Manage project in compliance with Group project management procedures
• Recognise, understand and take action to manage risks that can impact on project(s)
• Implement quality management systems for project(s)
• Ensure compliance to sound engineering standards and practices
• Ensure Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC) compliance during project life-cycle
• Ensure project results are achieved to set standards and objectives

Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management

• Represent operations, maintenance and service departments in projects
• Provide expert technical support to project teams and operational teams.

Engineering Services

• Implement project management principles and practices for planning, design and implementation of project outcomes
• Conduct complex analysis of project systems and processes
• Provide technical inputs to the project team
• Provide inputs in designs, technical reviews, Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP) and other project related reviews
• Ensure design for operability, maintainability and efficiency
• Manage implementation of new projects and ensure projects are in accordance with Business Unit (BU) excellence

Functional Excellence Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end- to-end processes, tools, templates etc.

• Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication/bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices and knowledge

People Management

• Compile and lead small-sized teams effectively to achieve goals (project based)
• Manage and evaluate performance of subordinates when applicable.

Safe and Healthy Work Environment

• Maintain and contribute to a healthy environment, safe operations and practices Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

Behavioural Alignment
Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective

The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.
If you have not been contacted within 28 days of the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful

Closing Date:2020/02/20
Reference Number:EXX200211-1
Exxaro Reference Number: P40166029