Tax Manager - homechoice

Homechoice; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading home shopping company in South Africa seeks a dedicated professional to manage tax compliance and strategy. This role involves ensuring adherence to tax laws, preparing tax computations, and providing advice to the finance team. The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of both indirect and direct tax legislation and significant experience with tax risk management.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing tax compliance and legislation.
• Understanding of indirect and direct tax legislation.
• Ability to analyze tax impact on the organization.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with tax legislation and manage tax risks.
• Prepare monthly and year-end tax computations.
• Provide tax advice and manage SARS audits.

Skills

Tax compliance

Legislation interpretation

Tax risk management

VAT and customs knowledge

Job description

Overview

The candidate will be responsible for ensuring full compliance with all applicable tax laws and regulations relating to the Group’s direct and indirect taxes. In addition, they will oversee the day-to-day execution of the Group’s tax strategy and policies to ensure that tax risks are effectively identified, managed, and mitigated.

What you will love doing in this role

General

• Ensuring compliance with indirect and direct tax legislation and changes in requirements, understanding and interpreting of relevant legislation and analysing the impact on the Group.
• Control tax compliance register and tax risk register
• Provide tax advice to the finance team
• Be involved in projects with tax implications
• Manage SARS audits and requests for information

Corporate tax

• Preparation and processing of monthly current and deferred tax for management accounting purposes.
• Preparation of the group’s provisional and year-end tax computations.
• Preparation of income tax, provisional tax and dividends tax returns and supporting schedules.

Indirect Tax

• Review the VAT and withholding tax computations, reconciliations, reasonability tests and returns.
• Review of annual VAT apportionment calculations.
• Management of SARS Customs deferment account.

Other

• Review of tax reconciliations.
• Provide input into the annual budget and quarterly budget refresh process on all tax related matters
• Preparation of the group’s income and deferred tax separate and consolidated interim and annual financial statements disclosure.
• Preparation of monthly tax reports for internal finance review.
• Preparation of quarterly group tax packs.