Tax Administrator

Key Performance Area:

- Maintain excellent knowledge of third party SARS reporting requirements and processes.
- Maintain up to date technical knowledge of relevant third party reporting sections of the Income Tax Act and Tax Administration Act.
- Address tax queries accurately and timeously in the following manner:

- Classify the query as administrative, technical or systems and obtain further information where required;
- Discuss systems and technical queries with relevant team members to determine appropriate response and/or action;
- Draft response by identifying and describing the problem and address concern by responding with a practical and effective solution within 24 hours (or 3 hours in case of emergency);
- Have response reviewed by relevant Group Tax team member within 24 hours (or 1 hour in case of emergency);
- Send response to business within above timelines.
- Submit weekly reports on all tax queries for that week. All queries received up to 5pm on Thursday must be cleared by 5pm on Friday.
- File format, data, codes and validations must be checked against BRS;
- All errors need to be listed as well as the nature of the error and suggested corrective action;
- Error report must be discussed with Focus group BA and the BA must sign off on the error report and suggested corrective action;
- All files must be reviewed and error reports drafted and reviewed within the relevant timelines;
- Error reports to be sent to business for corrective action;
- Follow-up with business in having these errors addressed ad reviewed within the relevant timelines;
- Escalate all deadlines not adhered to in that day.
- Identify tax risks that could impact the company direct and / or indirect and escalate accordingly.
- Provide support for system / process and or reporting queries from the different business units.
- Investigate and identify requirements to address process or system constraints resulting in repeated queries and or errors.
- Play an active part in developing and updating process documentation for internal staff by working with Business Analysts.
- Work actively with the Tax Specialist to clarify technical rules and regulations published for a smooth implementation in Business.
- Assist in monitoring the ongoing operational compliance with tax legislation and tax submission/return/payment deadlines.
- Quality review of all tax communication/certificates pre distribution to client/market by identifying and classifying all errors.

Minimum Requirements:

- BComm degree (with tax modules)
- At least 5 years’ experience within a corporate environment on client/third party reporting
- Previous experience and tax knowledge in the financial services sector would be advantageous
- Decent understanding of Easy File and E-Filing SARS systems as well as processes
- Excellent knowledge of third party SARS reporting requirements and processes
- Detail orientated
- Sound knowledge of the relevant sections of the Income Tax Act and Tax Administration Act pertaining to third party reporting
- Sound Excel skills
- Excellent communication skills - verbal, presentation and written
- Excellent time management skills
- Excellent administrative skills
- Stress tolerance, assertive, information seeking
- Excellent interpersonal and networking skills
- Ability to build relationships with people, getting the best out of individuals
- Flexible team player but with ability to function effectively alone