Reporting to the Senior Manager - Tax, the role holder will ensure the company tax compliance by preparing timely tax returns and ensuring adequate controls to avoid tax exposures.
Responsibilities
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
- Health and Safety
- Uphold the company code of conduct,
policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every
aspect of your work.
- All employees have a responsibility
to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and
procedures in all actions and decisions.
- Preparation of monthly withholding tax and
withholding VAT returns together with supporting schedules to ensure
filing by the statutory deadlines.
- Preparation of subsidiary corporate tax returns
plus supporting schedules for tax filing and accounting reporting
purposes.
- Preparation of quarterly instalment tax payments
within statutory deadlines.
- Reconcile withholding tax and VAT receivable
balances to issued certificates and the GL account and follow up for any
outstanding tax certificates.
- Participate in tax planning efforts to assist
the business identify areas of tax exposures as well as tax savings
opportunities.
- Review of expenses for optimal claim of input
VAT credits.
- Ensure import taxes paid by the company are
accurately computed and requisite documents to support duty payments are
kept.
- Liaise with the Revenue Authority, internal
customers and external auditors to ensure tax-related queries and
correspondence are addressed in a timely manner.
- Support the analysis and implementation of tax
policy changes because of Finance Bill/Act and gazetted tax policy
changes.
- Participate in the monthly Balance Sheet Review
processes, including adequately preparing the supporting schedules.
- Participate in preparing tax training materials
and presenting during this training session.
- Analysis of fixed assets additions for
qualifying investment allowances.
- Support in the preparation of information
required during statutory and regulatory audits.
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
Business Competencies
Working with Others
- Consciously takes steps to make the most of
every conversation/interaction
- Identifies people s needs, interests and motives
to be able to influence the decisions they make
- Communicates simply to excite and engage people
- Builds and maintains strong relationships and
networks
Operational Excellence
- Focuses on achieving maximum performance and
driving continuous improvement
- Thinks about processes and problems
cross-functionally and end-to-end
- Uses knowledge of products, technology, process,
systems and policy to solve problems
Creativity and Innovation
- Finds creative ways to exploit opportunities and
solve problems
- Takes risks and pushes what is possible
- Experiments with unorthodox approaches
Business Know how
- Uses data and research to make decisions that
are competitively and financially robust
- Balances current and future needs
- Thinks and acts like an owner of the business
- Acts in line with legal, regulatory,
professional and ethical standards
Working with Change
- Responds flexibly to changing situations
- Manages the business and people aspects of
change to drive performance
Functional Competencies:
Planning and Control
- Analyses performance trends to determine the
health of the business
- Maintains controls within Financial Systems
through setup control and master data management
Accounting
- Prepares, analyses and summaries financial data
to support business operations and delivery statutory information
- Ensures the integrity of processes and systems
to record and authorize transactions in compliance with Safaricom
accounting policies and regulation
Reporting
- Delivers timely and accurate reports to satisfy
statutory and business requirements
- Identifies key performance and variances, and
provides recommendations
Tax
- Delivers filings/reports to satisfy statutory
and business requirements Combines expertise and commercial awareness to
deliver value added solutions
Qualifications
Education & Experience:
- Honors degree from a recognized university in
business or related field
- At least one full professional qualification in
accounting namely CPA, ACCA, CIMA or an equivalent
- A minimum of 4 years proven track record of
having worked in a similar role in the Tax field with a progressive
accounting firm or a Law firm or with a minimum of 4 years tax and
accounting experience in a well-run company
- Key performance indicators:
- Timely filing of tax returns and payment of
taxes
- Collaborate with the Finance Shared Services
team to deliver outputs in a timely and accurate manner
- Structure transactions to avoid tax gross-up by
reviewing contracts, tax legislation including double tax treaties.
- Organize quarterly relationship meetings with
the stakeholders
- Satisfactory stakeholder management.
- 100% compliance with tax laws, processes and
procedures
How to Apply
