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Client Investment Tax Lead

Client Investment Tax Lead

The Hiring HouseCape Town, South Africa
30+ days ago
Job description

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 filings
  • Withholding tax testing and validation
  • Data compilation and submission in collaboration with the Guernsey office FATCA and CRS reporting
  • Develop a data testing programme to identify issues with the FATCA / CRS data.
  • Working with the operations, drive remediation of this data
  • Compile, 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 policies
  • Understanding of financial investments collective investments, ETFs and shares
  • Strong understanding of accounting and tax.
  • Ability to work with and understand data;
  • SQL and excel skills
  • Analytical, logical
  • Understanding of the testing process ie how to devise expected results and test for and problem-solve the anomalies
  • Highly numerate
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