Senior associate (Senior Tax Accountant)

About us

Tax Reporting & Strategy team assists Clients with tax and accounting tasks, including but not limited to:

• taxpayer registration;

• development of tax accounting policy;

• accounting set-up;

• bookkeeping;

• preparation / review of tax returns and statutory reports (statistics, National Bank);

• addressing tax notifications, tax audits;

• improving tax and accounting processes and automating routine tasks.

Roles and responsibilities include:

• Preparation and submission of tax (VAT, WHT, CIT other taxes) and statistical reports, as well as reporting to the National Bank of Kazakhstan;

• Accounting and tax accounting transactions for representatives offices/branches of foreign legal entities, local companies;

• Supervision and coaching of the junior team members and following established procedures;

• Communication (both correspondence and personal) with clients and team on a daily basis;

• Process enhancements and routine tasks automation, participation in the development of the digital products for the Clients;

• Participation in the marketing and promotional activities.

Requirements:

• experience in Big4 or other consulting firms;
• previous experience of managing full accounting closure and preparing CIT, VAT, WHT with limited supervision;
• project management experience (allocate work, navigate juniors, review their work and provide the feedback; prepare high quality deliverables; monitor project status, timely raise issues, propose action plan and meet the deadlines; communicate with Clients);
• multitasking (ability to properly prioritize and manage more than 10 tasks daily)
• strong Russian/English reading, speaking and writing skills (summarize key points, provide short and clear answers, provide details in a structured way)
• confident user of MS Excel and 1C:Enterprise 8.3 or other ERP system.
• passion for regular process review, improvement and automation