Chief Tax Accountant
Chief Tax Accountant
Responsibilities:
1. Ensure the compliance with IFRS and tax regulations, and establish and enforce proper accounting methods, policies and principles;
- VAT
- Zakat
- Corporate tax income
- Transfer pricing
- Withholding tax
2. Ensure the timely reporting of all monthly financial information;
3. Ensure an accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and year end close;
4. Coordinate, complete and ensure a clean and timely year end audit;
5. Manage day-to-day accounting operations and ensure that there is a redundant process backup in place for every critical operation;
6. Maintain, implement and develop of a comprehensive manual of accounting SOPs to enhance the workflow of the department and ensure high class accounting system;
7. Provide training to new and existing staff as needed;
8. Monitor emerging technology to determine ways to automate the accounting process without sacrificing accuracy and accountability.
9. Manage and control the execution of all accounting activities (general ledger, receivables, payables and invoicing)
10. Ensure the recording of inflows and processing of payments (corporate, payroll, Etc)
11. Ensure accounts reconciliation including bank accounts and related party transactions
12. Coordinate with external auditors and facilitate financial statement validation
Qualifications:
1. Bachelor in Accounting
2. CPA / CA / ACCA preferred
3. Proven work experience in multi organizations accounting system
4. 10+ years of overall combined audit and accounting experience
5. 5+ years of relevant experience
6. Constructive knowledge of IFRS and IAS
7. Strong analytical and managerial skills
8. High level of integrity and dependability with strong sense of urgency and details & results-orientation
9. Promoting process improvement
10. Excellent knowledge in MS office (Specially in Excel)
11. Fluent in English (Bilingual preferred)
12. ERP (SAP) is a must
