Sarda Group - General Manager - Taxation - CA/LLB

About the job:

General Manager - Taxation

Role and the Person:

- The Position is at the level of the group and therefore is at the senior Management level, accordingly the purpose and critical functions would be as follows:

Function (Dept) Purpose:

- To ensure a consolidated and comprehensive response to taxation issues

Role Purpose:

- To provide a responsive taxation service

- To facilitate legal compliance and leverage (for all functions and businesses, in all aspects of their functioning)

The Key Expectations of the Role:

- Compliance fulfilment without risk

- No tax/compliance surprises

- Access to responsive legal (tax related) competence

- To design and optimise processes, policies and practices for comprehensively addressing the legal issues

- To formally identify and prepare for a range of possible legal contingencies

- To build and sustain a responsive and systematically functioning team (internal and external)

- Decentralised (evidence based) decision making environment-

The Competencies required to effectively take on this role:

- Familiarity with wide range of tax and tax-related laws, procedures, precedents, and practices

- Conceptual and functional knowledge of accounting across businesses

- High level of legal drafting skills

- Conceptualisation skills

- Systematic in approach to work

- Networked for influence and intelligence

- Resourceful

- Inter-personal skills

- Empathy

- Sensitivity to evidence-based-change of hypotheses-

The Person:

- CA with Legal orientation.

- LLB degree would be desirable.

- Corporate experience of at least 20 years with 5 years in a senior management position in the Taxation and Legal functions of a mid-sized firm.

- Experience in a multi-business firm would be an added advantage