Business Tax Compliance Senior at Ernst & Young Nigeria

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Assurance gives organizations and their investors the confidence that the results they report give a true and fair picture of their business. As an assurance professional at Ernst & Young, you'll work in a high-performing and inclusive environment that offers you great opportunities to develop an interesting and fulfilling career, wherever you are in the world. You will work in multidisciplinary teams to handle complex issues and resolve challenges for leading companies. We'll support you in your professional development so you achieve your potential. As a result of growth, vacancies exist in all our service lines.

We are currently recruiting for the Position of:

Job Title: Business Tax Compliance Senior

Ref No: LAG0000P
Location: Lagos

Job Purpose

• As a Business Tax Compliance Senior, you'll make technical contributions to business tax compliance engagements and internal projects.
• You'll actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships.
• You may participate in preparing or reviewing income tax returns for complex organizations in diverse and specialized industries; identifying tax savings and risk reducing opportunities for consideration and implementation; preparing or reviewing the statutory accounts for a domestic or foreign client; and preparing estimated tax liabilities to assist the client in meeting its tax payment obligations.
• Working with supervision, you'll contribute to presenting our work and its findings to the client.
• With a clear focus on anticipating and identifying risks, you'll escalate issues as appropriate.
• Working closely with colleagues, you'll determine whether the work is properly executed, documented and concluded in compliance with our Quality & Risk Management (Q&RM) guidelines.
• As an influential member of the team, you'll help to create a positive learning culture, coaching and counseling junior team members to help them develop.

Client Responsibilities

• Participate in business tax compliance engagements
• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress
• Assist in preparing reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other parties
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel
• Build strong internal relationships within the business tax compliance team and across other services

People Responsibilities

• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff
• Contribute to people initiatives, including recruiting and retaining business tax compliance professionals
• Maintain an educational program to develop personal skills on an ongoing basis
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures

Technical Skills Requirements

• Commercial, legislative and industry knowledge
• Ability to apply our global compliance process and tools
• Ability to apply Q&RM procedures
• Relevant public accounting or industry experience
• Professional accountancy qualification [describe specific requirements] or working towards gaining one

Application Closing Date
Not Stated.

Method of Application
Qualified and interested candidates should:
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