Group Tax Specialist

4 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Aspen Pharma Group Full time

**ROLE PURPOSE**:
To provide tax assistance and support to the Group Tax Executive and allocated Regional Tax Manager for Aspen Group companies by ensuring the managing and overseeing of the Aspen Group’s tax affairs.

**KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS**:
Accounting for taxes and related party transactions
- Ensures that corporate tax liabilities for your region are accurately recorded, within the deadlines reflected in the Group Finance timetable.
- Ensures that all supplementary information that is required to be submitted as reflected in the Group Finance timetable, is reviewed within forty-eight hours of the deadline and that feedback is provided to the business in relation to those submissions.
- Ensures that the segmented income statement is received from every company in your region, on a monthly basis, is reviewed uploaded to TRCS within forty-eight hours of the date stipulated in the Group Finance timetable. In addition, work with your Regional Tax Manager (“RTM”) to early identify issues where the Transfer Pricing Policy is not being met.
- Works with management to implement recharges of expenses, in accordance with the Transfer Pricing Policy.

Transfer pricing
- Securing a credit rating for the respective company, within ten business days of the finance transaction being identified, calculating the appropriate margin that should be charged and preparing the memorandum for submission and implementation by the business.
- Work with Group Legal to ensure legal agreements that are required to be entered into to support new transactions are issued in template form and that the agreement is issued in relation to the company that you are responsible for.

Tax compliance and audits
- Ensures each company in the region meets all of their tax reporting obligations to achieve the deadlines set by the Tax Authority. This responsibility covers corporate tax, value-added tax and transfer pricing returns/notifications.
- Prepares the returns that have been identified by the RTM and submit those to the Tax Authority, once the return has been reviewed by the RTM and the local file (refer below) has been prepared.
- Prepares all local files are for companies in the region, prior to the submission of the corporate tax return.
- Prepares the controlled foreign company tax return for each company in the region.
- Prepares all responses to any query that is received by a Tax Authority in collaboration with management and the appointed advisors. Ensure that these are reviewed by the RTM prior to the replies being submitted to the Tax Authority.

Legislation
- Prepares training slides in relation to topical questions relating to developments in international tax, corporate tax and VAT, in accordance with the training timetable.

Opinions
- Prepares opinions, that are either identified as being necessary, as requested by the business which are highly technical opinions or as requested by the RTM and ensure that these opinions are reviewed by the RTM before they are released to the business.

Stakeholder engagement
- Actively engage with the business in undertaking all the work that is allocated.

Tax policy and tax risk management
- Implements all standard operating procedures that are published for Group Tax.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE:

- B. Com Hons (Taxation) or B.Com with H.Dip Tax
- Masters or similar qualification an advantage
- CA/SA an advantage
- 2-6 yrs tax experience

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES:

- Independent worker
- Self-motivated and highly productive
- High levels of accuracy, attention to detail and strong analytical skills
- Highly dependable and dedicated to the work under their management
- Strong levels of co-operation
- Good levels of business acumen
- Project management skills including effective management of projects, the ability to meet all deadlines and the ability to effectively manage the implementation of proposals/acquisitions
- Good opinion writing skills
- Ability to understand and interpret the impact of tax law changes on the business (problem solving skills)
- Time management skills

ASPEN COMPETENCIES:
Business
- Performance driven - able to operate with a high level of energy, whilst remaining focused on the required outcomes. A ‘can do attitude’
- Accountability/ownership - accepts responsibility, own decisions and achieve results despite adverse conditions.

People
- Communicate Effectively - clear and transparent communication leads to clear understanding
- Deals with ambiguity/embraces change - ability to comfortably initiate change and overcome obstacles operating with a high level of flexibility. Show resilience in the face of constraints, frustrations or adversity

Self
- Continuously grows and develops - staying competitive means continually increasing knowledge, skills and capabilities. Learn from mistakes and continually strive for excellence
- Take Actions with Integrity - internalise the principles of the Aspen Code of Conduct and demonstrate integrity, fairness

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