Key responsibilities
Product and client tax
- Drive the compilation and execution on the test plans to ensure accuracy of tax calculations and reports IT3(b), (c) and payroll IRP5, IT3(a)
- Ongoing monitoring of data for data quality issues and push-back to the operation for remediation
- Review of the business rules, forms, processes and systems to ensure client tax administration and reporting objectives are met. (input data)
- Ongoing review and monitoring of PAYE calculations and payroll submissions for Living Annuity incomes.
- Review of the directives deductions and reporting of this via the payroll submissions.
- IT3(c) testing
- Review calculations of capital gains and losses
- Review and testing of complex corporate action processing.
- Review for false disposals i.e. transfers handling, fund class switches
- IT3(b) testing review processing of fund income distributions, dividends, corporate actions. Test reporting.
- Endowment / Sinking Fund policies
- Handling of the tax deducts (income, capital gains taxes) for share portfolios (PSPs) within endowment policies
- Review and testing of capital gains tax deductions and end of year true-up
- Assist in the testing of any system changes that impact client and five funds tax.
PWP Qualified Intermediary IRS filings.
Manage compliance with IRS QI obligations, including :1042, 1042-S, and 1099 filingsWithholding tax testing and validationData compilation and submission in collaboration with the Guernsey office FATCA and CRS reportingDevelop a data testing programme to identify issues with the FATCA / CRS data.Working with the operations, drive remediation of this dataCompile, analyse and submit the FATCA / CRS filings to SARS and to Guernsey for PWP (IGOR)Qualifications, experience + competencies
Knowledge of financial products and processes ie LISP products discretionary investments, retirement annuities, living annuities, preservation funds, tax free savings, endowment policiesUnderstanding of financial investments collective investments, ETFs and sharesStrong understanding of accounting and tax.Ability to work with and understand data;SQL and excel skillsAnalytical, logicalUnderstanding of the testing process ie how to devise expected results and test for and problem-solve the anomaliesHighly numerate