Assistant Manager - Tax and Financial Controls (Qatari & children of Qatari mother)

Commercial Bank of Qatar; Lahore; On-site; PKR 1,400,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in Lahore seeks an Assistant Manager for Tax and Financial Controls. The role involves preparing financial reports, coordinating with stakeholders, handling tax submissions, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree in Business, ideally with a focus on Finance or Accounting, and strong interpersonal skills. This position offers an excellent opportunity to play a vital role in the financial operations of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Senior Manager in preparing for meetings and tracking spend requests.
• Co-ordinate with Business/Spend requestee on structuring memos.
• Draft meeting minutes and circulate with action points.
• Prepare a dashboard summarizing memos for executive approval.
• Assist in coordinating day-to-day activities and testing of internal controls.
• Prepare the monthly WHT Return and submit on time.
• Review vendor invoices for tax compliance.

Skills

Ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders

Ability to work under pressure

Accounting Methods

Appropriations Planning

Awareness of local cultural and social factors

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, preferably in Finance or Accounting

Job description

Career Opportunities: Assistant Manager - Tax and Financial Controls (Qatari & children of Qatari mother) (7489)

• Assist the Senior Manager in preparing for the CCT working committee and Exco meetings, by tracking all spend requests presented to the CCT mail box
• Co-ordinate with Business/Spend requestee on structuring memos, providing relevant and accurate information, this includes understanding the nature of requests, budgetary and bank’s procurement requirements and polices in place
• Drafting CCT working committee meeting minutes (weekly basis) and Exco minutes (by-weekly basis) and circulate via email with CCT action points.
• Prepare dashboard with the summaries of the memos, for the EXCO and draft GCEO’s approval email for circulation
• Prepare the final approval confirmation email on the business cases after obtaining the GCEO’s approval along with GCEO’s action points (if any)
• Collate information / statistics on all business cases presented to CCT and prepare dashboard on the overall savings to the bank on a bi-annual basis and to be presented to the CFO.
• Assist the ICOFR team in coordinating day to day activities, follow ups, documentation and testing of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (ICOFR)Co-ordinate and follow up with control and process owners
• Perform control testing on design effectiveness of internal controls on an annual basis
• Perform control testing on operational effectiveness of internal controls across the bank on periodic basis – pertinent to controls on monthly, quarterly and yearly basis
• Perform remediation of failed controls and identify with control owners mitigating controls and/or recommend new controls to ensure operational effectiveness
• Assist the Senior Manager in preparation of monthly/quarterly dashboard for management review with controls tested: passed, failed, remediation.
• Assist the Senior Manager other areas of testing and control review in the Financial Statement Close process
• Assist the Senior Manager on co-ordination and submission of quarterly auditor requirements to external auditors

Withholding Tax (WHT)

• Prepare the monthly WHT Return in line with the data submitted by the Accountsable team and submit the return on the Dhareeba portal within the specified timeline. (before 15th of next month)
• Review the list of vendors alongside the invoice on a monthly basis to check whether the invoices are taxable based on a provision of service as per the regulations of General Tax Authority (GTA).
• Provide WHT deduction certificates to the vendors
• Arabic translation of the WHT returns and submission in the Tax Portal
• Assisting the Senior Manager in correspondence and interaction with Tax regulators and Other regulatory reporting including QFMA/QSE correspondence
• Assist the team for communication with Regulators – QFC, QFMA, General Tax authority (GTA), QSE etc including Arabic translation

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business with preferably a specialization in Finance or Accounting

Skills

• Ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to work under pressure
• Accounting Methods
• Appropriations Planning
• Awareness of local cultural and social factors, and labour law provisions