Finance Executive, Tax

Job Descriptions:

- To assist supervisor in mitigating taxes for the Group by identifying and assisting in the implementation of tax planning opportunities to reduce the respective company’s effective tax rate and to manage tax cashflow.
- To assist supervisor in ensuring full compliance with all aspects of taxation for the Group are performed in an effective and efficient manner on a timely basis.
- To assist supervisor to enhance the overall tax compliance and tax management system / documentation of the Group in managing the risk of tax disputes with the tax authorities.
- To work closely with external tax consultants to ensure tax risk is properly managed and mitigated.

Job role/responsibilities:

- **Compliance -** Works closely with the immediate supervisor to manage and attend to all tax compliance matters for the companies ranging from the preparation and/ or review of all tax returns as well as the review of source data for the tax returns to ensure completeness and sufficiency of the companies’ documentation to mitigate tax exposure. To assist supervisor in identifying tax risk and to attempt to propose solutions which are logical and possible to implement without impacting business operations. To ensure that relevant tax payments schedules are prepared and provided to the supervisor for the final check in a timely manner. To follow up on all aspects of tax payments. To ensure that tax refunds are recycled against tax payments due and/ or refunded to the companies to maximise the use of cash. To ensure that the monthly calculation and rationalisation of effective tax rate for the companies is prepared and provided to the supervisor for review in a timely manner. As applicable, to learn to prepare the provision for current and deferred tax as well as tax notes to the companies’ financial statements.
- **Tax knowledge - **To keep self-up to date on changes to tax law and current practices of the taxing authorities and share such changes with the companies in a timely manner. To learn how to APPLY such knowledge to job function and determine the implications of such changes to the respective the companies’ tax positions. To self-prepare and participate meaningfully in all on-job training provided by immediate supervisor with well thought out and well-articulated views which is supported by the relevant tax law. To perform well on internal tax tests as well as to share knowledge garnered from external trainings
- **Tax planning/ special projects - **To learn to assist in providing ad hoc tax advisory services/ input on special projects to the companies by undertaking the relevant research and drafting the advice as well as where possible, to suggest alternative solutions with a view of ensuring that the most tax optimum solution is provided to the companies’ taking into consideration the legal and statutory implications which may limit the opportunity of effective tax planning. To assist immediate supervisor in ensuring that the implementation and estimated recurring costs of such planning vs the projected tax savings are addressed.
- **Communications - **To learn to develop close rapport with the companies’ personnel, tax authorities, external consultants and all other stakeholders involved in any tax related matters. To learn to ensure that tax related matters are communicated with the companies in an articulate and on a timely manner and to maintain a professional but open communication with the companies to cultivate a relationship whereby the companies think of Group Tax prior to finalising all proposed transactions/ structures and seeks for input from Group Tax on a formal/ informal basis.
- **Others** - To learn to take ownership and responsibility of job function. To learn how to management time effectively to ensure work is done in timely manner based on the respective tax deadlines are met. To ensure that time management capabilities are continuously developed to minimise delays in delivery of work and shows a marked improvement in timing of deliverables for recurring jobs.

Skill and requirements:

- Bachelors Degree
- Specialised in: Accounting and Finance, Taxation
- Total Work Experience: 1 to 3 years
- Possess excellent analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as part of the team.
- A self-motivator.
- Shows aptitude for excellent time management.
- Practical accounting and finance experience of different industries with some prior tax exposure.

Pay: RM2,500.00 - RM3,500.00 per month

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

- Performance bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Petaling Jaya: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)