Tax and Compliance at Greensprings School

Purpose / Role

• Main purpose of this role is to help create tax strategies for dealing with different tax authorities as well as managing tax authorities on daily basis.

Key Aims and Objectives

• To ensure the company is in full compliance with tax laws and regulations
• To ensure the company follows on other statutory compliance such as ITF, PAYE, NHF and others
• To establish good relationship with tax and official authorities
• To ensure timely remittance of the tax liabilities.

Prime Responsibilities and Duties

• Calculate tax liability, ensuring compliance is completed speedily and efficiently and submitting tax returns and associated documents by the appropriate deadlines.
• Carrying out detailed computations to calculate tax liability and advising on how to minimize the school’s tax liability.
• Researching, analyzing and interpreting changing tax legislation
• Liaising and negotiating with tax authorities
• Responsible for the documentation and filing of remittance schedules, tax receipts and correspondences and related compliance documents
• Periodic reporting to the Director of Finance and Admin on Greensprings level of compliance with applicable tax laws, with reference to the difference tax categories.
• Advising on employee incentivisation schemes in a tax efficient manner.
• Remittance of monthly staff deduction of Pensions, PAYE, NHF, ITF, ECF and other relevant statutory payments on behalf of the organization.
• Ensure that operational controls relating to tax exposure are strictly adhered to.
• Create and update a tax risk register with recourse to the Director of Finance and Admin.

Reports:

• Monthly summary Tax report
• Individual monthly tax calculations per campus
• Reports relating to calculation of various tax and statutory liabilities.

Requirements

• HND/BSc Accounting
• 5 years relevant working experience in a tax related role
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Detail oriented with expert knowledge of (GAAP) accounting and tax procedures and financial reporting practices.
• Student membership with ICAN of CITN will be added an advantage