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Group Tax Manager Jobs in Johannesburg Metropolitan Area at Point. Your Marketing Investment Partner
Title: Group Tax Manager
Company: Point. Your Marketing Investment Partner
Location: Johannesburg Metropolitan Area
JOB TITLE : GROUP TAX MANAGER
LOCATION : SANDTON
Closing date : 07 September
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
The Group Tax Manager is Point’s senior functional authority on tax and is responsible for developing and executing the Group’s tax strategy across all jurisdictions in which the Group operates. The role is accountable for protecting the Group’s tax position while proactively creating value through commercially sound, lawful and defensible tax structures.
Full and accurate compliance is a fundamental requirement of the role. Beyond compliance, the incumbent is expected to improve post-tax returns, reduce transactional tax leakage, support cash generation and repatriation, and ensure that tax considerations are incorporated into corporate, commercial and operational decisions before those decisions are implemented.
The role operates as an embedded commercial partner to the Executive, Finance, Legal, Treasury, Human Resources, Payroll, Operations, Procurement and customer-facing teams. The incumbent must exercise independent technical judgement, provide clear recommendations, lead implementation and take ownership of the Group’s tax positions rather than acting primarily as a coordinator of external advice or an escalation point to the CFO.
ROLE MANDATE AND EXPECTED CONTRIBUTION
• Develop and execute a Group tax strategy aligned with Point’s commercial, geographic and funding priorities.
• Participate actively in commercial decision-making, including customer and supplier contracts, pricing, tenders, new-market entry, restructurings, funding and material transactions.
• Identify and implement practical opportunities to improve post-tax returns, reduce avoidable tax leakage and release or repatriate cash.
• Own the Group tax control environment, statutory compliance, reporting, transfer pricing and tax risk management across all jurisdictions.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships and ensure that business teams engage Tax early enough for the function to influence outcomes.
• Form, document and defend independent technical positions, using external advisers as specialist support rather than as a substitute for internal ownership.
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Internal stakeholders
• Group CEO and Group CFO
• Executive and regional management
• Finance and Treasury
• Legal and Company Secretarial
• Human Resources and Payroll
• Operations, Procurement and Technology
• Customer Directors and customer-facing teams
External stakeholders
• Tax authorities and regulators
• External tax advisers and legal counsel
• External auditors
• Customers and suppliers where tax affects contracting, invoicing or documentation
• Banks and other funding or treasury counterparties
FUNCTIONAL AUTHORITY AND INDEPENDENT DECISION-MAKING
• The Group Tax Manager is Point’s internal functional authority on tax and is expected to exercise independent technical judgement. The incumbent is accountable for determining ordinary-course tax positions, approving tax calculations and submissions, directing regional finance teams, managing external advisers and signing off material tax reconciliations and technical conclusions within the approved delegated authority framework.
• Matters requiring Group CFO, Executive or Board approval must be escalated with a clear recommended course of action, supporting technical analysis, quantified tax and cash implications, identified commercial and reputational risks, and a practical implementation plan. Escalation does not remove the Group Tax Manager’s responsibility to form, document and defend a recommended position.
• External advice may be obtained where specialist expertise, local jurisdictional knowledge or independent support is required. The Group Tax Manager remains responsible for critically evaluating that advice and translating it into a clear internal recommendation.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
• Minimum: Relevant bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Taxation, Finance or Law, together with a recognised postgraduate tax qualification or equivalent professional tax specialisation.
• Preferred: CA(SA), admitted attorney with tax specialisation, MCom Tax, Higher Diploma in Taxation or equivalent recognised professional qualification.
• Professional standing: Membership in good standing of an appropriate accounting, legal or tax professional body is advantageous.
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Minimum 7 years of relevant tax experience, including at least 3 years in a senior tax advisory, tax management or in-house tax position within a multinational or multi-jurisdictional organisation.
• The incumbent must demonstrate relevant experience in:
• Corporate and transaction structuring.
• International and cross-border tax, including withholding tax and treaty application.
• Indirect tax and customer or supplier transaction flows.
• Transfer pricing and intercompany agreements.
• Cash repatriation and intercompany funding.
• Employment taxes, payroll and employee benefit structures.
• Commercial contract review and negotiation.
• Tax authority audits, objections and disputes.
• Managing external advisers and independently forming technical recommendations.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
• This job description identifies the principal areas of responsibility and is not an exhaustive list of all duties attached to the position. The scope may be reviewed or amended from time to time to reflect changes in the Group’s structure, strategy, operating model or regulatory environment. The incumbent is expected to perform all reasonable duties consistent with the seniority and purpose of the role