Tax & Customs Accountant

Profil du candidat

• Graduate / master’s in accounting, commerce with a professional certification in TAX/VAT.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in tax consulting and/or tax administration and/or tax compliance role in a multinational.
• Excellent knowledge about the VAT and Income Tax processes in the Middle East-Africa region and computer literacy especially in MS excel.
• Strong negotiation, verbal, and written communication with an effective leadership skill to deal with authorities and tax consultants.
• Must abide by strict confidentiality and non-disclosure requirements and ability to maintain quality and safety standards at all times.
• Data analytics skills (including proficiency in Excel) and problem- solving skills.
• Team player, Dedicated, Motivated.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Language: English & Arabic - highly preferred (written & spoken). French is a plus.
  
  
  

Activités

TAX: Act as the key point of contact and support for the affiliate's taxation, including VAT matters and manage the relationship of the MEA Hub and external tax consultants

• Ensure proper computation of tax liabilities through informed application of tax laws and regulations.
• Manage tax compliance, reporting and filling works.
• Establish systems and processes for tax risk management.
• Liaise with tax authorities and provide tax audit support.
• Prepare annual income & deferred tax calculation and operation revenue returns.
• Review income and deferred tax provisions.
• Ensure reconciliation of tax data with SAP and financial statements.
• Ensure all rebates and claims are followed and refunds obtained in a timely manner.
• Provide internal tax advisory services, training, and support on business operational matters.
• Providing guidance and advice to Finance team, Contract Engineers and Buyers on the most appropriate tax structuring in contracts, both general and specific.
• Assess Transfer Price risks.
• Update all concerned parties on any new tax regulations & enforce related action plan.
• Design and disseminate tax information and guides to company personnel including but not limited to Finance and miscellaneous budget holders.
• Handle All taxes issues related to mergers, acquisitions & divestment & propose cost related savings.
• Liaise with tax consultant & external auditor for any tax issues.
• Perform tax Activity and Entity Level Controls.
• Lead and coordinate ad-hoc tax driven business initiatives.
  
  
  

VAT: Identify and manage VAT risk. Act as the day-to-day contact between different departments with respect to VAT advisory matters and compliance.

• Prepare, validate and submit all required VAT returns, supporting schedules and any documentation/responses as may be required by the Tax Authorities across MEA Region for all the legal entities of the Hub.
• Implement VAT principles, policies, and processes to ensure completion and compilation of VAT mechanism across the hub.
• Ensure compliance of VAT data collection (including the goods import data from the Customs), review, consolidation, preparation, and payment of quarterly VAT liability.
• Perform monthly reconciliation of the VAT & Customs balances with the General Ledger and maintain the documentation.
• Coordinate with other affiliates and the IT to setup the VAT in SAP.
• Providing guidance and advice to Finance team on the booking of invoices with the appropriate VAT code.
  
  
  

Contexte et environnement

Internal:

Interaction with Regional Customer Success, Accounting, Tax & Treasury, Senior Accountant, Financial Controller and Other departments.

External:

Interaction with the Tax Authorities, External Tax Consultants.