Senior Tax Analyst at Tusen Consulting

Job description

In relation to both direct and indirect taxes, and in collaboration with external consultants and EM Tax and Finance Teams, the tax analyst is expected to assist with the following tasks:

• Preparation of Excise blackline reconciliations and returns.
• Review of all monthly vendor invoices paid for preparation and filing of all monthly VAT and Withholding tax returns.
• Preparation and filing of corporate tax returns for filing with the relevant tax authority.
• Preparation and filing of Employers’ Annual Declaration (Form H1), Employers’ Remittance Card (Form G) and employee's annual statutory returns (Form A).
• Consolidation of annual payroll and PAYE schedules for preparation and filing of Employers’ Annual Declaration (Form H1), Employers’ Remittance Card (Form G) and employee's annual statutory returns (Form A).
• Processing of employees' individual tax clearance certificates (TCCs) and annual corporate TCCs.
• Ensuring timely payment of all taxes to the appropriate tax authorities to avoid sanctions:
• Review of all our company's Nigeria Group tax projects and contracts for compliance with all tax rules and regulations.
• Perform annual VAT, WHT and TP remediation exercises to identify areas of non-compliance with all tax rules and regulations.
• Ensure transfer pricing compliance requirements met for Nigerian markets.
• Proactively obtain and validate BI data and progress the preparation and filing of transfer pricing returns for Nigerian market.
• Manage all tax records of the Nigerian entities.
• Post relevant tax provisioning and tax payment journals approved by End Market Tax Manager and Cluster Head of Tax.
• Preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual tax reconciliations while ensuring strict adherence to relevant Sox controls
• Engage with GBS, accounting and P&R teams to improve tax reporting and clear validation errors, where applicable.
• Assist the End Market Tax Manager in responding to vendor queries.
• Manage the preparation of analyses required for the delivery of tax control and Sox requirements for Half-year, P10 and Year-end.
• Identify improvements to the Nigerian tax processes and activities (covering direct and indirect tax), where necessary.
• Identify, escalate, and remediate inadequacies in reporting tools to mitigate tax leakages, where necessary.
• Manage the preparation of statutory audit folders during interim and year-end audit exercises
• Implementing tax strategies across the business and ensuring optimal capital efficiency.
• Management of tax technical register detailing changes in all aspects of the laws and regulation of taxes in Nigeria, as it affects the business.
• Archiving all legislative changes impact correspondence in designated shared folders.