Tax Reporting & Compliance Manager – SA needed at The South African Breweries

• The Key Purpose of this role is performing and reviewing of tax reporting and compliance activities for direct and indirect taxes applicable to the ABI Inbev entities in Africa

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Review or completion of corporate income taxes, VAT, Withholding Tax, Excise duties, Carbon tax and other relates tax such as Customs, Transfer Pricing.
• Analysis of the tax exposures, risks and provisions of the entities in the Africa Zone.
• Review or completion of Corporate Income Tax annual and provisional tax returns and related tax information
• Review of tax figures reported in financial statements, with applicable disclosures and tax accounting for entities within Africa Zone
• Review of return and calculation of Excise payments for on a monthly basis
• Review of return and calculation of VAT payments on a monthly basis
• Assist with co-ordination of compliance data on adhoc direct and indirect tax business and audit queries
• Review and assist in completion of country by country reporting for Africa Zone
• Review and assist in completion of dividends WHT returns and payments 
• Drive for automation of processes within the tax reporting and compliance space
• Drive for improved analytics within the tax reporting and compliance space
• Adhoc activities related to tax reporting and compliance 
• To manage the Specialists that prepare the BU South Africa tax deliverables and ensure the SLAs with stakeholders are met
• Identify opportunities to improve the processes within the CIT, Excise and VAT space and roll out improvements or training where there are gaps and opportunities to improve. 
• Provide tax technical advice to the team, raising queries and ensuring accuracy of returns/comps and or raise tax technical risks to the Zone team, where identified.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Strong analytical and reporting skills
• High level of service mindset with accurate outputs
• Problem solver with good trouble shooting skills
• Deadline driven and results focused
• Ability to work in a well organized, accurate and reliable manner
• Working in a multi-cultural environment 
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively
• Understanding of Agile, Agile WOW Systems
• Organizational skills, planning, focus and discipline.
• Aligning strategic and operational needs

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant tax/accounting qualification
• Minimum 6years’ experience in a tax position
• Taxation law (Solid)
• Tax accounting (Solid)
• Financial/General Accounting
• Excel Knowledge (Solid)
• Systems experience: One source, SAP, Syspro and eFiling
• Computer skills (MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint) with particularly strong Excel skills
• Knowledge of SAP, COGNOS system