Tax Compliance Accountant Job Careers – Airtel

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Organisation: Airtel
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Airtel
was launched in Uganda in 1995 and is Uganda’s most innovative mobile phone
operator, which has introduced many “firsts” in the telecommunication sector
such as: Pre-paid plans, Post-paid plans, International roaming, Dedicated
customer care, One rate to all networks, Fax and Data, Call forwarding, Per
second billing, Freedom Forever and Mobile Top up.  Airtel in Uganda is a great success story in
Uganda. Our customer base has grown tremendously – so has our coverage – and
our service quality is unsurpassed in the market.
Job Summary: The Tax Compliance Accountant will be responsible
for ensuring compliance with Airtel statutory requirement of deducting and
remitting all direct and indirect taxes and attending to the Uganda Revenue
Authority on issues
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • Prepare VAT, WHT and Excise duty returns for
    compliance
  • Attend and co-ordinate post audit
    reconciliation meeting by the tax authorities
  • Build and maintain documentation for tax
    purposes
  • Regularly attend to internal and external
    auditors’ queries and request
  • Preparation of tax status and other reports
    as requested by the group
  • In charge of the preparation of all documents
    required and attendance to queries raised by the External Auditors for
    quarterly and annual statutory audit
  • Keenly review payments to local suppliers to
    ensure appropriateness of tax invoices for tax purposes and verify
    withholding tax applicable
  • Maintain quality and supportive relationship
    with tax authorities and a healthy relationship with tax consultants
  • Keenly reviews periodic tax dashboard showing
    the status of various tax issues and takes action to resolve pending
    issues.
  • Ensures all data meant to be sent to ACE
    teams is timely submitted
  • Ensures that any issues raised during the
    quarterly, annual and internal  
    audits are closed in a timely manner
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate should hold a Bachelor’s
    degree of commerce or Business or Law. A professional accounting
    qualification (such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA) or near qualification (i.e.
    final stages)
  • A minimum of four years’ experience in
    Telecom and in a tax accounting role.
  • The ideal candidate must have worked in a Tax
    Accounting environment, with tax experience and must be familiar with
    preparation and submission of statutory tax returns.
  • Excellent analytical skills, reporting
    writing, research and good computer skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Ability to pay attention to detail
  • Knowledge of English and/or French
How to Apply:
If
you want to work for Airtel in the aforementioned capacity should Apply Online
by clicking on web link below.
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