REQUIRED SKILLS & JOB DESCRIBTION:

Tax Planning

Experience in Tax Planning especially During the Investment Period: Tax planning covers analytical approach and proper settlement of financial structure for corporate income tax planning, value added tax, various withholding taxes including interest and dividend calculations.

Strong Analytical Skills: The position seeks for the analytical skills which are supported with data knowledge to map chart of accounts between bookkeeping applications and mapping of global accounts to statutory accounts to provide accurate, timely and transparent tax declarations including payroll related accounts. Hands on experience about working over the ledger of the company to reclassify financial statements, trial balance and other necessary statements and declaration is precious.

Knowledge over Financial Calculations and Transfer Pricing: Preparing the tax schemas regarding interest and dividend calculations, as well as categorizing taxation procedures upon the classifications according to transfer pricing regulation and implementations.

Foreign and Local Trade Practices: Coordination and controlling of long term and one time vendor contracts including completing necessary documents, evaluating over local tax laws and regulations.

Tax Calculations and Taxation Schemas: Ensuring tax declarations are made in time accurately, if applicable, collaborating and controlling the external consultant’s studies’. Preparing a well structured taxation structure abided to laws and regulations, by also cooperating with external consultants, if exists.

Structuring Accounting and Tax Policy: Establishing local accounting and tax policies and procedures and ensuring compliance with the regulations.

Tax Refund and Offset Processes: Optimization of taxation structure by planning tax return and offset policies, and related application procedures.

Capitalization Procedures: Planning of capitalization regarding assets including cost of financing and other intangible part of the expenditures.

Accounting:

Accurate and Timely Bookkeeping and Preparations of Payment Orders: Maintaining accounting, tax and management accounting in full in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan:

Introducing documents and data including ESF, Registration of SNT, ESF, Virtual warehouse, payment orders, invoices, contractual conditions (if necessary), salaries, related taxes, and controlling electronical invoices and acts of performed services /acts of delivery.

Handles with the daily journal entries transactions, Communication with managers over the issues of overdue closing, overpayment, clearing.

Calculating and recording incurred provisions, interest calculations and other financials figures to the bookkeeping tool.

Calculate depreciation for each type of fixed assets for accounting and tax accounting.

Take part in the work to ensure the procedure for conducting an inventory and valuation of property and liabilities, documentary evidence of their availability, condition and valuation.

Preparing payment orders via online banks and payment related papers (if necessary).

Working closely with external consulting companies, and continuously keeping the close relationship.

Keeping Accounting Archival, Controlling Online Accounting Sources and Audit Related Documentation:

Having the full responsibility of keeping and controlling necessary documentations including expense reports, custom brokerage, financial documents and form related to local authorities and banks, regarding business and investment activities.

Supervising logistics and custom brokers to fulfill documentation necessities in terms of importing and exporting relevant investment items.

Ensure the safety of primary accounting documents and tax accounting registers and submit them to the archive in the prescribed manner.

Management of Accounts Receivables & Accounts Payables:

Having the full set of payables and receivables information, and to prepare aging reports according to the contracted payment terms; building a control system for the correct balance sheet management.

Communication with managers over the issues of overdue closing, overpayment, clearing.

Month and Year Closing:

Finalizing periodical closing activities on a timely basis, and preparing manual adjustments upon the necessary journals in 1C.

Supporting Headquarter respecting the local closing procedures, and documentations on a timely manner.

Creating a monthly closing checklist to ensure whole process with reasonable assurance.

Ensure timely and accurate monthly closing of Local accounting books according to the schedule.

Reconciliation acts preparation and ensuring the engagement tasks with customers and vendors.

Statutory Reporting: Collaborating with local consultancy firms (if applicable) for formation and submission of tax reporting forms and statistical reporting and reporting to the National Bank and local authorities.

Documentations related to Financial Operations and Management: Managing documentation and form requests from the stakeholders and vendors

International Financial Reporting Standards: Understanding and implementing necessary measures for bookkeeping and preparing manual journals regarding necessary adjustments.

Budget Planning, Analysis and Controlling:

Tracking the Budget and Actuals: Digging the expenses and classifying to breakdown major cost items to better classify with realizations of investment items and expenses. Additionally, preparing bridge analysis to keep the track of the budget and actual comparisons. Also, monitoring the correctness of accounting for management reporting.

Preparation of Management Reports: Combining data from relevant functions and preparing management presentation upon the request.

Rolling Forecast Preparations: Evaluating the business and investment activities as a whole, and to brief information as an initial-to-date evaluation and analysis.

Creating of Bottom-level Accounts: Creating sub-ledger items to track activities in financials in 1C to record the expenses and investments with a more detailed method.

Cash Management: Planning cash plans up to 6 months as a forecast of necessary financing needs, and informing top management about financing needs of the business and investment.

Financial Planning, Controlling and Communication:

Global Accounting: Supporting global chart of account basis accounting procedures, controlling and mapping with 1C basis accounting data.

Bank Relations: Actively support bank relations referring to financial operations, maintaining close relationship with relevant branches, actively participating financial instruments’ disbursements (if applicable) and providing periodical reports and documentations.

Participation to Audits: Provide support and provision of necessary documents during internal and external audits (audits, tax and other audits).

Financial Planning: Contributing to financial analysis and providing business intelligence supported studies to top management and relevant functions.

Financial Controlling: Be a part of global finance team to support data, information and communication requests, as well as driving the local financial controlling function in terms of evaluating received payment orders, documents and progress payments.

The expectancies from the candidate:

having at least 5 years of specialized experience in working with IFRS.

knowledge of legislation in the field of accounting, taxation, custom procedures and logistics, labor and civil law.

experience with the program 1C and accounting with ESF.

readiness for independent study of information and ability to work in conditions of multitasking;

experience in passing audit, tax audits.

knowledge of the procedure and timing of reporting.

experience in working with large volumes of information and documentation, with information systems.

Quick learner, desire to constantly improve their professional level, decency, sociability, ability and desire to work in a team.

knowledge of English not lower than intermediate level (B2).

attentiveness, responsibility, resistance to stress.

Knowledge of Turkish would be an advantage.