Tax and Compliance Officer at Eat'n'Go Limited

Eat'n'Go brings great taste to Africa. A restaurant group dedicated to bringing the best F&B brands and concepts to Africa, Eat'n'Go feeds your needs.

It has entered the market as the exclusive master franchisee for two great international franchises: Domino’s Pizza, a $6 billion fast food giant and Cold Stone Creamery, a $1.5 billion rising star.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Tax and Compliance Officer

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• To ensure the company is in full compliance with tax laws and regulations
• To ensure the Company follows on other statutory compliances such as ITF, PAYE, NHF and others
• To establish good relationship with tax and official authorities
• To ensure timely remittance of the tax liabilities
• Calculating tax liability, ensuring compliance is completed speedily and efficiently, and submitting tax returns and associated documents by the appropriate deadlines
• Carrying out detailed computations to calculate tax liability and advising on how to minimize a client's liability
• Monthly computation of VAT and Consumption taxes as well as WHT, Paye among others
• Researching, analyzing and interpreting changing tax legislation
• Liaising and negotiating with tax authorities
• Producing reports and presentations with the achieved results
• Advising and consulting in order to provide advice about tax legislation, eg ensuring business and assets are properly structured to minimize the incidence of taxation
• Advising on employee incentivisation schemes, eg share options, share ownership trusts, tax-efficient employee benefits and the creation of employee benefit trusts
• Advising on aspects of property transactions, including acquisitions of foreign property, and the use of tax efficient structures in property deals, including the effective use of partnerships and co-ownership structures
• Monthly Summary Tax report
• Individual monthly tax calculations per location – Abuja. Ibadan, Enugu, Lagos
• Reports relating to calculation of various tax and statutory liabilities
• Any other duties and responsibilities that may be assigned from time to time by Accounts Manager or Head of Finance.

Qualifications and Requirements

• 5+ relevant working experience as a tax consultant, tax advisor or tax officer
• High Integrity, utmost confidentiality level
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Detail-oriented with expert knowledge of (GAAP) accounting and tax procedures and financial reporting practices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to summarize and present complex data in an organized, concise manner
• Independent, mature, self-initiative and possesses positive attitude

Ability to:

• Make decisions and exercise sound judgment
• Ability to work a flexible schedule based on business needs, which may include evenings, weekends and holidays
• Demonstrated self-starter and problem solver
• Able to work under pressure and tight deadlines and at the same time deliver time results and reports.
• Team player and fast worker

Application Closing Date
28th February, 2018.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's to: recruitment@eatngo-africa.com with job title as the subject of the mail.