15 Oct
Mtn Uganda
Johannesburg
Description
- Highly dynamic and fluctuating Telecommunications industry
- Highly competitive market with new and established competitors
- Fast moving industry
- Legislative changes
- Changes in the global GSM and ICT market affects developments in future revenue environments
- Interdependency of systems and the need to understand other systems
- Changes in the business, will impact on the business plan, processes, and reporting
- High cross-functional dependency to deliver timeously
- Compliance requirements from MTN Group for the various disciplines that include planning, reporting, commissions management and revenue accounting and assurance
Responsibilities
Tax Strategic Planning & Advisory
- Co-design, with GM: FinOps,
and co-ordinate the organisational Tax Strategy
- Ensure that the Tax team provides valuable Tax advice to the business through business partnership.
- Enable the team to identify Tax saving opportunities for the organisation.
- Assist in the development of tax optimisation projects and implementation of tax strategies to ensure effective tax planning.
- Provide faster insights-driven advisory on tax implication of projects, contracts and transactions.
- Ensure the provision of project decision support driven by effective policies and procedures.
- Provide automated advice on Tax implications from projects for the business.
- Provide inputs into business planning through Tax planning insights.
- Evaluate potential tax impacts of business decisions.
- Ensure upskilling on Tax legislation through capacity enhancement and ensure timely advice on Tax implications from changes in legislation.
Compliance
- Ensure that all automatically generated tax returns required by the authorities are submitted timeously and accurately.
- Ensure that legal and regulatory correspondence is provided timeously to the relevant stakeholders, supported by AI/Cognitive accurately and complete and timeous SARS & legal correspondence.
- Timeous SARS payments
Reporting
- Ensure that all automated tax reported amounts are valid, accurate, complete and reported in the appropriate periods.
- Ensure the accurate and timeous reporting of group total contribution amounts.
- Ensure Automated provisional tax computation
- Ensure real-time reporting to tax authorities
- Ensure an automated end to end income tax reporting process (incl. computations, provisioning and returns).
- Ensure automated SARS Reconciliations & journals
- Enable automated indirect tax computation enabled by advanced analytics
Risk Management
- Ensure the maintenance of a Tax register and that this is updated continuously
- Oversee the performance of Tax data analysis for risk identification
- Enable the updating / Maintaining of PPPs
- Ensure proactive Risk identification and register maintenance enabled by advanced analytics
- Ensure compliance with MTN SA tax policy
Technology & Data
- Ensure that the Tax Technology tool in use is configured, maintained and updated accordingly
- Enable Tax Data Analysis
- Oversee the automated end-to-end tax reporting process
- Oversee the automated end-to-end tax compliance process
Stakeholder management
- Drive the training and rollout of tax updates and policies that affect the respective regions.
- Ensure the provision of timeous and accurate reports to governance structures
- Ensure that input into legislative decision making is business led from the MTN SA team
- Ensure timeous updates on Tax legislation to relevant stakeholders
- Ensure that Reports(i.e. exposures, interest, et. al.) are automatically generated to MTN SA governance structures
- Ensure workflow based support for SARS queries
International Tax
- Ensure timeous file submissions for reporting
- Ensure appropriate benchmarking is performed for transfer pricing purposes
- Ensure accurate and timeous reporting of reportable irregularities
- Reporting of reportable arrangements
- Ensure automated Tax computation in respect of CFCs
- Enable faster,
standardised determination of Tax implications for cross-border transactions
Supervisory / Leadership / Managerial Complexity: Refers to the responsibilities for directing, guiding, motivating, and influencing others.
- Recruit, develop and retain people with outstanding skills, qualifications, and potential
- Define the divisional KPAs and KPIs that will be cascaded down to each area
- Performance management and identification of training needs
- Build talent by identifying and developing new leaders for the respective environment
- Employee relations and collaborative teamwork
- Coaching and guidance of subordinates
- Build professionalism, loyalty, and commitment to the organization
- Communicate actively and effectively resolving any potential conflicts that may arise
- Display an understanding of the strategic nature of effective leadership in the organisation
Required Skills & Capabilities
- Expertise in Direct and Indirect Tax compliance and reporting
- Experience in staff management peer management, and stakeholder management
- Experience in working within the Tech, Media, and Telecoms Industry
- Proficiency in Tax Strategy implementation
- Understanding of Accounting for Tax
- Knowledge of Tax Modelling
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload, including co-ordinating with others and ensuring that statutory and other deadlines are met.
- To work as part of a team and independently to deliver a common goal or objective
- Ability to deal with difficult situations and make decisions on the best course of action
- Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Excel and Word
- Strategic thinking (new risks and opportunities), problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills
- Risk Intelligent
- Proficiency in relationship building, networking, persuasion, and influential skills.
- Business Partnering for Value Realisation
- Excellent verbal, written communication, and negotiation skills
- Good technical, business, and global acumen. Future focused
- Comfortable with ambiguity
- Assertive
- Storytelling
- Innovative
- Data analysis & visualisation
- Technological expertise
- Emotional Intelligence
- Negotiation, influencing and relationship building
- Legal skills
- Project management
Key Deliverables
- Execute governance and compliance models and frameworks in order to identify and manage risk liabilities.
- Make recommendations for alignment of strategies and objectives according to knowledge gained from reports and analysis.
- Ensuring efficient and effective tax internal controls are rolled out and consistently applied
- Training and rollout of tax updates and policies that affect the organisation
- Assist in the development of tax optimisation projects and implementation of tax strategies to ensure effective tax planning.
- Enforcement and compliance of various tax legislation that affects all units within the organisation
- Tax saving opportunities
Qualifications
Education:
- Chartered Accountant or Admitted Attorney
- Post graduate tax qualification (Masters in Tax)
Experience:
- 8+ years in corporate, indirect, withholding tax, and international taxes
- 6+ years in tax strategy implementation, planning support, and project management
- Senior management track record of 5 years or more; with at least 3 years in relevant sector/ industry as per relevant role
▶️ Senior Manager - Head of Tax.Finance
🖊️ Mtn Uganda
📍 Johannesburg