Senior Tax Consultant

KPMG-SouthAfrica • Other • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa • 2w ago

KPMG Job Specification

Title: Senior Tax Consultant

Business Unit: Tax Management Services (TMS)

Reporting to: Head of Tax Technology, Transformation and Innovation

Purpose of the Job:

The purpose of this role is:

To provide a wide range of tax process and technology advisory services to a large portfolio of clients (internal and external). Work in multidisciplinary teams, including various Tax teams, Technology analysts and Data & Analytical teams across the firm.

Key job duties or responsibilities:

• Basic operational support for Data and Analytics solutions including database administration, database backup and restore.

• Perform the Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) process of financial data for all tax technology projects.

• Troubleshooting and debugging of ETL components used including SQL, Alteryx, Azure Data Factory and other solutions.

• Visualising data sets for analysis using data visualisation tools such as Power BI and QlikView.

• Assist with execution and improvement of local/global solutions and other product offerings.

• Design and develop data models for automation and analytical purposes.

• Drive efficiencies through automation and enablement of technology for tax reporting requirements using technologies such as UIPath, Alteryx, Power Platform etc.

• Analyse and understand the flow of transactional data across financial systems and how they impact the company's direct and indirect tax declarations and obligations.

• Advise clients on how to sustain tax data quality standards in financial systems to enhance tax processes, operations and effectiveness of tax reporting.

• Prepare clear, sound, accurate working papers and reports containing work procedures, findings, conclusions and recommendations.

• Review the configuration of ERP systems for the management of direct and indirect tax to ensure conformity with the relevant standards.

• Contribute to pursuit/sales efforts to meet budgetary targets (form part of team to meet with clients to sell tax technology).

Critical Interpersonal or Interactive skills

• A self-starter and take initiative

• An analytical mind and inclination for problem-solving

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

• Understand new technological trends in the market (robotics, artificial intelligence)

• Good communication and skills to train people on the job

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines (manage projects IT component)

• Team player with good interpersonal skills

• High level of competence, ability to operate and think on feet and has attention to detail

Qualifications and experience

• CA (SA) or B Comm Degree or Information Technology degree

• At least 4 years relevant experience in a tax and/or accounting and/or data engineering/analytics

• Basic understanding of data management concepts.

• Experience in the development and/or implementation of accounting and/or tax technology tools

• Good command of key IT tools, particularly MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint

• Good understanding of various accounting information systems, including but not limited to, SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards etc. (data extraction experience is essential)

• Understanding of various data and analytical tools, including but not limited to, QlikView, Power BI, SQL, Microsoft Azure, and/or other data query and dashboarding solutions)

• Understanding of various process automation tools such as UIPath, Alteryx, Power Platform

• Should have good data analytical and interpretational skills, numerical and research skills (data and analytical skills)

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