Trust and Tax Compliance Officer

Guardian Recruiting (Pty) Ltd; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial planning and investment company in Cape Town is looking for a Trust Tax Consultant. This role involves managing trust tax compliance, providing advisory services, and liaising with clients. The ideal candidate will have 8-10 years of experience in trust tax matters, be a registered tax practitioner, and possess strong organizational skills. Competitive compensation package offered.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in a similar function.
• Deep understanding of trust tax compliance requirements.
• Clean credit and criminal check.

Responsibilities

• Complete ITR12T return and submit to SARS.
• Check assessments and follow-up on errors.
• Provide advisory service on tax matters.

Skills

Trust tax experience

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Client liaison

Computer literacy

Education

Registered tax practitioner or tax technician

Tools

MS Office suite

Tax management tools

Job description

Join a client-focused Trust and Investment Management company providing financial planning and investment advice and services to clients planning for, or already in their retirement years.

This new vacancy has been created within their tax service team. This role is responsible for trust tax and related tax compliance support for the Trust Officers (Financial / Investment Advisors) within the broader business. Role is ideally suited to applicants with previous trust tax experience, with a minimum of 5+ years’ experience in this area.

Key responsibilities include :

• Completion of ITR12T return, including submission to SARS, and calculations of tax payments and ensuring execution of same
• Completion of e-filing responsibilities on behalf of trust, including IT3(T) Tax submissions
• Timeous data capture of all relevant data on tax management tools
• Check assessments and follow-up on errors
• Raise objections to assessments, and attend to enquiries raised by SARS
• Request and remit payments and attend to client refunds from SARS
• Provide an advisory service w.r.t. tax matters in relations to income tax for trusts
• Make recommendations w.r.t. tax planning and provide feedback to Trust Officers / clients
• Liaison with internal and external clients, and support departments as needed
• Client liaison : timeous response to attending to and resolving all queries; regular and ongoing feedback relating to progress and confirmation of finalisation of matters to internal and external clients

Key requirements for applicants :

• Previous experience in similar function a requirement, with proven track record (8-10 years)
• Experience in trust tax matters, including understanding of AFS, and trust compliance requirements
• Registered tax practitioner, or tax technician, with own tax practitioner or technician code
• Computer literacy (intermediate) : MS Office suite and excel at an intermediate level, as well as relevant tax package knowledge and previous experience
• Ability to work independently, Attention to detail and excellent organisational skills
• Clean credit and criminal check, valid, unendorsed drivers' licence and own vehicle are required

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