This role is primarily responsible for handling all financial processes including tax reporting, planning and compliance functions, not limited to corporate accounting activities, as well as improvement and development of internal control policies and procedures, ensuring accuracy and efficiency on financial management and maintaining and developing accounting principles and practices to ensure accurate and timely financial reports.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Monitor legislative and regulatory tax law developments, communicate the effects of these developments to management and the tax team and create strategies to capitalize on changes to tax legislation.
- Secures financial operations by monitoring and approving financial processing, reporting, and auditing.
- Complies with national and local financial legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising immediate superior on needed action.
- Manage the company’s book of accounts and preparation of reporting requirements which includes but not limited to financial reports in compliance with accounting standards, taxation and statutory regulations.
- Facilitate and manage the preparation and review of company’s tax returns and ensure accurate, timely remittance of taxes.
- Provides proactive advise to immediate superior on setting policies and procedures through study of best industry practices and procedures.
- Recommend for the development, modification, review and implementation of accounting systems, reporting methods and controls, policies and procedures to achieve optimum business benefits.
- Ensure all financial information is updated timely and accurately, meeting all deadlines.
- Provide support on audit requirements such as access to financial information and provision of reports and special tax related projects.
- Recommend tax strategies that align with business goals to identify tax savings and improve profitability.
- Identifies and recommends updates to accounting processes and procedures and ensures that financial reports comply with generally accepted accounting principles or financial reporting standards.
- Develop and implement strategic tax planning for all local and national taxes and implement opportunities for process improvement in the company's tax procedures.
- Prepare tax provisions schedules, returns, payments, reports and maintain a company’s tax database.
- Managing month-end/year-end closing and prepares financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and analyzing trends.
- Demonstrate leadership and management skills with the team to ensure accuracy, timeliness and compliance on deliverables.
- Partner closely with other cross functional teams to ensure accomplishment of business objectives and consistent customer success. Build and maintain strong relationships within and across departments and with internal and external stakeholders.
- Additional ad hoc responsibilities as may be assigned.
Background and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, preferably a Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- Minimum of 2 years experience handling Accounting, Audit, Tax and Finance activities preferably in Supervisory level