Tax Associate at 21Search Limited

21search Limited situated in the heart of Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. 21Search focuses on deploying its resources towards providing a range of Manpower and Administrative Services tailored to meet your needs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Tax Associate

Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Ensure detailed knowledge of the tax affairs of all Clients, providing each with sustainable tax solutions.
• Lead yourself and your team members to ensure efficient and effective service delivery to all Clients.
• Originate new Clients for the Company and originate new work from existing Clients for the Company.
• Provide thought-leadership in your chosen areas of interest in taxation by periodic practice development activities.
• Undertake multiple engagements and work with your Team members and other professionals and business support personnel in the provision of all service needs of Clients.
• Deepen the knowledge-base of the Company in the Tax Desks those assigned to you.
• Identify and make detailed proposition for any new Tax Desk for the Company.
• Maintain healthy relationships with all regulators and relevant tax authorities whose action or inaction may have a direct or indirect impact on the business of the Company.
• Manage risks and ensure that the practice of the Company is in accordance with extant laws and regulations at all times.
• Document all important correspondences with Clients both on SharePoint/Company’s server/electronically and manually.
• Keep all practice-related information, particularly Clients’ information as confidential as possible.
• Support the Supervising Partner in all his practice development efforts.
• Work directly with the Supervising Partner to meet your Tax Desk’s financial targets.
• Publish a minimum of 3 tax and related articles in a local or international journal.
• Provide overall knowledge, character and discipline in all your assigned responsibilities in the Company.
• Effectively manage and maintain healthy and profitable relationships with all existing Clients of the Company, resolving all issues in a timely and profitable manner.
• Mentor and supervise any intern or other personnel assigned to you for mentorship.
• Constantly update yourself on all areas of business development, tax practice and ancillary disciplines, including acquiring new skills and expertise valuable to yourself and the Company.
• Efficiently complete all other tasks as may be assigned by Management.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Must have a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in an appropriate field (Accounting, Banking and Finance, Economics) and be a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation in Nigeria.
• Must possess a minimum of 3 years of professional experience in a Tax Management role.
• Must be charismatic and possess a strong sense of judgement and wit.

Application Closing Date
31st July, 2020.