Senior Tax Manager (FinTech/Cryptocurrency/ Stablecoins)

Our Client is the largest and the first licensed on/off-ramp platform for stablecoins in Africa. They are dedicated to offering innovative solutions in the African stablecoins space. Our client is committed to making stablecoins accessible and understandable for everyone, providing their customers with secure and user-friendly platforms for their financial transactions.

Job Type: Remote | Full-time

Requirements

• Qualifications in International Tax (Master's degree or ADIT - Advanced Diploma in International Taxation)
• 5+ years experience in a similar/relevant field of group reporting and management.
• 2-3 years of experience in a managerial position, managing a team.
• Big 4 experience
• Experience in Tax Dispute across EMEA
• Experience in Tax Restructure across EMEA
• Experience in Tax Audit across EMEA
• Experience in Transfer Pricing across EMEA
• Experience in Group Tax Strategy across EMEA
• Experience in Tax Scheme

Advantageous

• Previous experience in Cryptocurrency.
• Previous experience in FinTech.

Key Responsibilities:

• Duties include, but not limited to
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records and documentation.
• Conduct regular balance sheet reconciliations to ensure accuracy and identify any discrepancies.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, accounting and tax matters.
• Assisting in the preparation and review of statutory and consolidated financial statements under IFRS and other international accounting standards.
• Assist with the preparation and review of month-end procedures and posting journals for accurate reporting.
• Collaborate with the finance teams to prepare for year-end audits, ensuring all necessary documentation and records are in order.
• Performing analysis and technical accounting research (IFRS and international accounting standards).
• Performing transfer pricing analyses, conduct functional analysis interviews, and manage transfer pricing benchmarking studies to determine fair market value for transactions between related entities,
• Develop and implement transfer pricing strategies that meet tax planning goals and overall business objectives,
• Provide functional support to cross-functional teams, including finance, legal, business development, and tax,
• Stay current with global transfer pricing trends and changes in global transfer pricing regulations,
• Ensure compliance with global transfer pricing regulations, including documentation requirements and reporting obligations, such as, country-by-country reporting, master files and local files,
• Provide technical transfer pricing advice and guidance to senior management to minimise the company's tax exposure,
• Ensure group entities are implementing Group transfer pricing policies correctly.
• Assist with transfer pricing audits between the group and revenue authorities.
• Assist with any preparation of in-country transfer pricing returns and support.
• Ensure Group Tax memo’s reflect the actual operational workings and the disclosure in the AFS.
• Actively participate in the management of the group transfer pricing policy and strategy.
• Training must be provided to more junior staff both on the job and through monitoring and on the job performance, whilst consistently providing feedback.
• Responsible for coaching and developing junior members of staff.
• Gathering information from different sources by using effective research tools.
• Identifying tax issues and using various tools and techniques to provide suggestions on how to solve them.
• Adapting to a changing work environment.
• Producing accurate work and deliverables to a high technical standard while coaching and mentoring junior staff.
• Continuous maintenance and improvement of templates and standard operating procedures.
• Ad-hoc Tax and Finance related assistance on various projects that arise in the ordinary course of business to be dealt with effectively and promptly – Assisting all business units across the Group.
• Ad hoc other duties in the finance department with reporting, preparation of annual financial statements, etc.