Role purpose:
To spearhead tax reporting both locally and group and provide leadership towards adequate preparations for annual statutory audit & other tax audits as required
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
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
· Pro-actively adapts own style and approach to build rapport, and work with others more effectively
· Builds and maintains strong relationships and networks
Operational Excellence
· Targets effort and resources on high-value, high impact activity
· 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
Project and Programme Management
· Defines scope and deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality and business benefit
· Schedules activity and identifies resource needs, dependencies and synergies
· Evaluates progress, mitigates risks and addresses issues
Functional Competencies:
Planning and Control
· Translates strategies into actionable plans that add value via process and operational improvements
· Maintains controls within Financial Systems through setup control and master data management
Accounting
· Prepares, analyses and summarises financial data to support business operations and delivery statutory information
· Ensures the integrity of processes and systems to record and authorise 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
Education & Experience:
· A bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting or another relevant subject area.
· Successfully completed a professional qualification (CPA, ACCA or equivalent accounting/tax designation) Applicants with tax qualifications will have an added advantage
· 6-8 years’ experience in progressive tax finance leadership role, including tax reporting, compliance and finance operations/accounting
· Experience within a tax function in a multinational (preferred) or a tax advisory firm and Experience in managing comprehensive tax audits
· In depth experience and technical knowledge of tax accounting and disclosures for accounting purposes, including deferred tax, prior year adjustments and transfer pricing.
· Wide experience in taxation within Ethiopia and at Global level with broad understanding of key domestic and international tax issues
· Experience in proactive management of tax matters, keeping up to date with changes in the regulatory environment and dealing with Tax Authorities will be an added advantage.
· Proven experience managing and influencing effectively in a matrix organized, high transaction volume organization
· A strong interest and understanding of Finance digitization, agile operations, and innovation.
· Able to apply good judgment, consult appropriately and manage risks, resilient and to work to deadlines with sound judgement regarding acceptable levels of tax risk
· Excellent analytical skills and commercial expertise and influencing at both internal and external levels and Application of tax technical knowledge to commercial agenda.
· must demonstrate the ability to communicate with impact, Effortless storytelling, communication, and information synthesis abilities, with strong data visualization capabilities.
· The role requires a blend of strategic vision, proven leadership, and direct management skills across multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders.
· Must demonstrate the ability to communicate with impact, Effortless storytelling, communication, and information synthesis abilities, with strong data visualization capabilities.
How To Apply
If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile on the career portal and then Click on the apply button. Remember to attach your resume.
The closing date for receiving applications is Wednesday October 30 ,2024