Corporate Tax Analyst

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**BAT **SOUTH AFRICA IS LOOKING** FOR A** **CORPORATE TAX ANALYST TO JOIN OUR TEAM IN CAPE TOWN**

**SENIORITY LEVEL**:Junior Management

**FUNCTION**: Finance

**SALARY RANGE**:Competitive salary + excellent benefits + market leading bonus

**LOCATION**:Cape Town

**REPORTS TO**:Direct Tax Manager

**ROLE POSITIONING AND OBJECTIVES**

Perform a range of corporate tax compliance and/or advisory work to support the effective management of BAT’s corporate tax position, including corporate tax liabilities, tax reporting, transfer pricing and ensuring compliance with all statutory positions.

Provide pro-active, high quality specialist advice, guidance, and expertise to execute tax management processes in areas such as corporation tax and international tax. Manage and drive ad-hoc taxation projects.

**WHAT YOU WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR**

British American Tobacco (“BAT”) operates in all ten countries in the Southern Africa Area. BAT refers to nine of these countries (i.e. excluding South Africa) collectively as the Southern Africa Markets or the “SAM”.

Although this role will be employed by BAT South Africa, it will predominantly provide support to the BAT companies operating in the SAM (i.e. the “BAT SAM companies”). More details on the principal activities are set out below:
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General Corporate Tax Support_**
- Monitoring new tax legislation in the SAM and assessing the impact on BAT SAM companies, advising the Direct Tax Manager accordingly
- Providing support on corporate simplification initiatives in the SAM
- Assisting with data collection, compilation and preparation of all information required for risk management processes and procedures
- Assisting with ad hoc requests and projects impacting BAT SAM companies

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Corporate Tax Compliance _**
- Preparing provisional tax calculations and initiating payment processes for Botswana, Namibia and Swaziland companies (“BNS companies”)
- Assisting BAT SAM companies’ finance teams with provisional tax calculations and payment processes
- Maintaining monthly schedules for income tax return purposes for BNS companies and assisting BAT SAM companies’ finance teams with maintaining monthly schedules for income tax return purposes
- Compiling all information necessary for, and completing, annual income tax returns for BNS companies for Direct Tax Manager review
- Assisting BAT SAM companies’ finance teams with, and monitoring of, completion of annual income tax returns, including liaising with tax advisors
- Assisting Direct Tax Manager with ad hoc requests and projects

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Corporate Tax Reporting _**
- Preparing monthly income and deferred tax journals for BNS companies for Direct Tax Manager review
- Preparing half-year and year-end tax packs for BNS companies for Direct Tax Manager review, including tax schedules for management reporting pack
- Preparing income tax and deferred tax notes to the Annual Financial Statements (“AFS”) for BNS companies
- Reviewing income tax and deferred tax notes to the AFS for BAT SAM companies
- Preparing monthly income and deferred tax forecasts for BNS companies
- Assisting BAT SAM companies’ finance teams with, and monitoring of, income and deferred tax forecasts for BAT SAM companies

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International Tax - Withholding Taxes (“WHT”)_**
- Monitoring SAM WHT compliance and assisting BAT SAM companies’ finance teams with collecting and issuing WHT certificates, including ensuring correct and timely issuing of WHT certificates by SAM companies
- Assisting BAT SAM companies’ finance teams with completion and submission of WHT returns

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International Tax - Transfer Pricing_**
- Assisting with annual transfer pricing data collection, including financial data and supporting documentation
- Assisting with data collection and process management for transfer pricing validation processes

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Internal and External Tax Audits_**
- Assisting with the collection of information and preparation of responses for all internal and external income tax and transfer pricing audits for BAT SAM companies

**ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE**
- Degree educated with professional accountancy/legal and/or tax qualifications
- One to three years direct tax (corporate tax/international tax) experience in a corporate environment, including an audit firm
- Excellent corporate tax technical knowledge
- A thorough understanding and knowledge of financial management and systems generally
- Medium to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word
- Assertiveness and drive
- Attention to detail
- General knowledge of the SAP software package and H. Dip Tax or equivalent qualification - added advantage

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