Senior Tax Manager

About the role

Pick n Pay is hiring a Senior Tax Manager, based in Kenilworth, Cape Town. (iv) Ultimately responsible for ensuring that the PnP Group’s transfer pricing (‘TP’) policies are relevant and up to date and TP documentation is readily available; and lastly (v) Responsible for ensuring good business relations with Revenue Authority officials in all tax jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for and managing all Tax compliance
• VAT, Withholding Tax (‘WHT'), Provisional Tax, Income Tax, Country by Country reporting (‘CBC’), Dividends Tax
• Managing the Group’s entire tax compliance process
• Delegate, review, consolidate outputs and manage the tax compliance process
• Review the process continuously looking to improve efficiency and compliance standards.
• Group’s TP policies and documentation
• Manage the annual Transfer Pricing documentation requirements’ process
• Responsible for and managing all Tax accounting incl.
• Group consolidated bi-annual current and deferred tax calculations
• Effective tax rate reconciliations
• AFS tax disclosure in accordance with IFRS tax reporting requirements
• Ensure that for all financial assistance across border a loan agreement is in place
• Revenue Authority interactions
• Manage all Revenue Authorities’ requests for information, audits and verifications
• Advisory
• Keep abreast of Transfer Pricing legislation
• Provide Transfer Pricing advice on new arrangements
• Identify possible TP risk areas and find the best way to address it
• Responsible for providing tax advice to the rest of the business
• Review advice before sent to business
• Ad hoc
• Tax Risk Management - Identify tax compliance breaks/risks in SA PnP business processes, ensure fixes are implemented and enforce controls to mitigate the risks
• Improve the efficiency of tax function processes
• Manage tax team members

Requirements

• A higher diploma in Tax Law and/or Honours in Taxation
• Chartered Accountant or similar tax SAIT designation
• Minimum 5 years post qualification experience
• Competencies required
• Ability to analyse tax and other legislation and apply to the PnP business
• Articulate
• Excellent numerical skills
• Positive attitude and outlook on life
• Use own initiative to solve problems
• See challenges as learning experiences, rather than problems
• Can work independently and in a team
• Technical skills
• Previous experience in a commercial business’s tax environment and/or in a consulting firm’s tax advisory team
• Previous Retail environment experience advantageous
• Knowledge of SAP FI and BPC advantageous
• Experience in working on Easyfile and SARS E-filing
• Microsoft Excel intermediate