Tax & Regulatory Officer at Amazon Energy Limited

Job Responsibilities

• Perform overviews of the financial operations of the Business Units in order to help them run efficiently.
• Anchors the annual Tax Clearance Certificates for the Business Units ensuring that tax computations are accurate and made before the statutory timeline of June 30th every year.
• Computes, records, analyzes, and reports on the VAT, WHT, PAYE, CIT, and all other taxes and levies as may be arising from the transactions of the Business Units and the Group.
• Initiates and implements tax planning initiatives aimed at optimizing the group tax exposures.
• Ensure that all regulatory and compliance registrations and clearances needed by the Business Units are up to date.
• Focused on the Tax liabilities of the Projects, Business Units, and the Group.
• Daily, post accounting entries and transactions into the accounting software.
• Monthly, compute taxes owed, prepare tax returns, ensure prompt payment of taxes and obtain tax clearance certificates.
• Responsible for the tax audit of Business Units in conjunction with the Group Auditors.
• Maintain tax balances on general ledger.
• Prepare all tax papers in regular basis and handle all information data requests.
• Preparation of Income Tax Accounts and Return.