Tax Coordinator

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in business administration, Commerce, Accounting, Finance or their equivalent and full ACCA or CPA Uganda.

Experience:

• 5 years and above work experience in a multinational company or financial institution, preferably with operations in Africa.

• Acumen in accounting and tax issues and procedures.

• Detail-oriented, with a highly developed sense of reliability and accuracy.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Trustworthiness and willingness to take responsibility.

• Outstanding written and verbal communications skills.

• Entrepreneurial spirit and collaborative nature.

• Strong work ethic and integrity.

• A passion for EEA and our customers!

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in business administration, Commerce, Accounting, Finance or their equivalent and full ACCA or CPA Uganda.

Experience:

• 5 years and above work experience in a multinational company or financial institution, preferably with operations in Africa.

• Acumen in accounting and tax issues and procedures.

• Detail-oriented, with a highly developed sense of reliability and accuracy.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Trustworthiness and willingness to take responsibility.

• Outstanding written and verbal communications skills.

• Entrepreneurial spirit and collaborative nature.

• Strong work ethic and integrity.

• A passion for EEA and our customers!

• Collaborate with Head of Finance and Tax partners on ongoing tax compliance and capital structuring and manage relationship with Tax Advisors.

• Implement the best tax practices and controls and ensure that these are consistently updated and followed.

• Ensuring that all tax returns are prepared accurately and timely and taxes remitted monthly before the 15th day of each month, maintaining documentation and reconciling to General Ledger.

• Responsible for working with tax advisors to prepare the annual income tax returns and review of annual corporate tax computations.

• Support Head of Finance with strategic improvements to EEA Uganda’s operations, including country-specific tax-efficient structures, transactions between parent and subsidiary.

• Coordinate External /Internal audits, liaise with the URA/Tax Advisors and ensure that all issues are timely resolved during the audit process.

• Maintain effective relationships across all departments within the organization and ensure all tax issues raised are resolved timely and sufficient support given.

• Ensure monthly tax provisioning includes reviewing the tax accruals, as well as the management and reconciliation of the tax balances on the ledger and effective rate analysis are done.

• Support in putting together YTD and forecast P&L information and calculating estimated taxable income positions, Effective Tax Rates for forecasting purposes.

• Preparation of responses to URA queries regarding tax issues.

• Supporting the Head of Finance with tax legislative developments and planning where necessary.

• Coordinate tax audits by URA, interface between auditors and company personnel, follow up on any disagreements.

• Ensuring that interim and final corporation tax returns are prepared, filed, and tax installments paid.

• Responsible for general tax compliance work in relation to PAYE, WHT, VAT, Excise duty, Stamp duty, and Corporation tax.

• Performance of tax reviews in SAP for VAT and WHT for all invoices paid out by the Bank.

• Responsible for all reconciliations on all tax accounts and reporting to internal management and external stakeholders on exceptional items.

• Annual review of the Group recharges to ensure that all services received are value adding and priced at arm’s length in accordance with the Transfer Pricing Act.

• Perform the group’s self- tax assessments and in-depth examinations, to identify areas of tax exposure and non-compliance and implement appropriate measures.

• Engage the revenue authority on objections, appeals and dispute resolution; make submissions on behalf of EEA Uganda.

• Perform annual review of finance policies, standards, and frameworks that have an impact on tax.

• Engage Group Head of Tax and ensure alignment with Group Tax Objectives.

• Manage training and support to other areas of the company to ensure they have sufficient tax compliance understanding to support the Tax function.

• Support Accounts Team lead to work closely with Uganda department heads to understand monthly expenses (BvA), monitor spending and drive efficiencies in cost centers.

• Any other tasks as assigned by the supervisor