Expert Taxation

As one of the top employers in the country, Jazz epitomizes the philosophy that each Jazz employee is passionately living a better every day inspired and enabled by visionary leadership, a unique professional culture, a flourishing lifestyle and continuous learning and development.
 
Our team & you
The Expert Taxation acts as a representative of the Tax team on all tax planning and advisory areas. He/she covers all tax related matters in relation to corporate income tax, dividend withholding tax, sales tax. The Expert Taxation advises the stakeholders on tax related matters with a balanced approach on tax planning and complying with tax laws and regulations. He or she will also be responsible for developing tax strategy and safeguarding the tax position of the Jazz Group.
 
What the first 30-60-90 days in the job will look like?

Within 30 days you will:
Familiarize yourself with our business and will develop a solid understanding of the digital transformation we are undertaking, the changes and impact it is having on the way we do our business, and be realizing the opportunities as well as challenges this poses for us.
Established relationships with your colleagues and will already be sharing information with each other. 
Familiarizing yourself with Jazz group structure and business understanding of all the group entities.
 
Within 60 days, you will:
As a member of the Tax planning, display your strategic thinking in providing input and support to all tax saving initiatives.
Be sharing your knowledge and the experience you have in Tax matters in the Telecommunication and Digital industry.
Identify and execute tax-planning initiatives.
Drive decisions across industry and take leadership position in alignment.
Leading Merger and Acquisition projects and provide tax efficient structures, analysis and advisory.

Within 90 days to onwards you will:
Provide in depth and business oriented tax advice to internal stakeholders on new business initiatives
Tax input for business plans/budgets and tax cash flow forecasting.
Drive change and tax awareness across organization.
Perform analysis and sensitivity analysis of taxation on major projects undertaken by Company.
Manage tax accounting (current & deferred tax) and group tax reporting’s.
Devise strategy for provincial tax audits & litigation as well as maintaining relationship with authorities.
Have in depth knowledge of tax laws, accounting reporting standards.
Support GSS teams for timely compliance and trainings
 
What we have done and what we will do with YOU
In the last one-year Jazz is a huge success story in terms of business transformation, we were market leaders and we still are market leaders but with huge margins specially after successful merger of Jazz and Warid.

A bit about you:
We are looking for someone who has already delivered on challenging projects and has taken end-to-end responsibility from planning to roll out followed by feedback.
We are looking for someone who has excellent communication skills to be able to advocate/defend the Product Org’s views of what is right—even if it comes to conflict/disagreement with CEO—with professionalism, maturity, and a balanced, holistic view of any competing viewpoints.
 
The structure of the team you will join is:
A five (05) member’s team with no sub teams.
 
The two (02) main priorities of the team as a whole are:
Be innovative and support all the stakeholders to achieve efficiency
Be truthful and comply with all the laws and regulations
 
With which other stakeholders the successful candidate will work with functional/regional/ within the team.
You will work with internal and external stakeholders including divisional/departmental heads, internal P&O team members, and all functions of the company for effective planning and advisory.
 
What would be the result of those interactions if we assume 100% collaboration?
Coming up with innovative thinking and bring efficiency in taxation.
 
The three (03) must have past experiences the best candidate should have.
Analytical Skills
Team work
Pressure handling
 
The two (02) must have technologies the candidate should have.T
Microsoft Excel 
Microsoft PowerPoint
 
Essential skills must have: 
Data Analysis in order to review and analyse data and be able to extract meaningful insights
Data Presentation skills for being able to present data in order to make quick decisions  
Advance communication skills for managing cross functional projects.

Grade:
L2/L3

Number of Positions:
2