Contract
Description
DEPARTMENT: Finance
VACANCY: Tax Assistant
JOB LEVEL: Assistant Manager
LOCATION: Lusaka
JOB PURPOSE:
The role primarily focuses on ensuring tax compliance with the statutory requirements of preparation and filing of tax returns, identification and mitigation of tax risks, advising internal stakeholders on matters of taxation and handling tax queries, enquiries and audits. This also involves ensuring accurate tax provisions in the management accounts and statutory audited financial statements.
REPORTING TO THE TAX MANAGER, THE MAIN DUTIES WILL BE:
1. Tax Process Management
- Preparation of computations/calculations of Corporation Income Tax (CIT), Withholding Tax (WHT), Value Added Tax (VAT)/General Sales Tax (GST), Excise Duty and Employment Taxes
- Response preparation to tax queries arising from filing of tax returns including conduct of tax accounts reconciliations to ensure that records are up to date with the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA);
- Apply for, follow up and disseminate WHT certificates to suppliers including providing of responses to all WHT queries
- Prepare, maintain and update monthly and annual files comprising of returns, receipts and supporting workings and documents.
2. Tax Risk and Management
- Proactively Conduct Tax health checks across functions
- Identify current and potential tax risks in the country, advising the strategy against each risk and tracking the strategy implementation thereof
- Review of key business transactions and ensuring the required documentation for tax purposes is maintained at all times
- Timely monitoring and research on relevant taxation trends
3. Tax Audit
- Timely resolution of tax audit issues.
- Act as an audit SPOC as and when there is an audit
4. Reporting
- Compilation of all Month End HQ Reporting Requirements (DTRs etc).
- Monthly analysis of movements in each tax type and provide detailed explanations of the movements in each tax type.
REQUIRED SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
Educational Qualifications & Functional / Technical Skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce, Tax, Economics, Mathematics/Statistics, Business Administration, Accounting or equivalent.
- Professional Qualification in Taxation
Relevant Experience (Type of experience and minimum number of years)
- Minimum of three to five (3 – 5) years of Tax practice experience and knowledge of the Zambian Tax laws and regulations..
Other requirements (Behavioral etc.
- Strong financial and analytical skills
- Excellent report writing skill
- Excellent excel skills
- Relationship management and Good interpersonal skills
Requirements
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