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Responsibilities:

Financial

The Uganda Tax Manager will be responsible for:

• Ensuring tax compliance with respect to all tax types i.e., Corporation tax, value added tax, Excise duty compliance.

• Ensure compliance with tax payment obligations.

• Ensure entities have valid tax compliance certification.

• Ensure compliance with Uganda Transfer Pricing requirements and documentation.

• Work with local tax advisors to ensure the business obtains value for money.

• Ensure compliance with relevant Diageo controls.

• Lead in URA tax audits processes

• Manage total business tax risks through appropriate tax governance.

• Ensure effective ETR management.

• Leading Diageo tax reporting in Uganda

• Support central tax compliance and customs and excise teams.

Leadership Responsibilities

• The role will provide leadership on various tax issues

Role Responsibilities

• Tax Compliance – Collaborate to provide high quality, accurate, timely computation, payment and accounting for various taxes and application agreed global standard processes/governance framework.

• External Relationships – Leadership and ownership of key relationships with URA in order to implement strategy and address tax audits/queries. Own the relationship with external tax advisors and hold them to account for the delivery of timely, cost effective and value add tax advice.

• Finance Business partnership – Develop and maintain a strong working relationship and keeping up to date with business priorities and developments, act as a trusted business advisor in order to challenge and support the markets in improving overall tax management. Advise, guide and educate market stakeholders on key tax issues to enable the business to adopt and adhere to relevant tax policies and standards, and mitigate tax risk.

• Value Creation – Seek opportunities for standardization and simplification. Thorough risk assessment of Uganda’s tax position and development of optimal strategy and communication of key issues to key stakeholders

• Governance & Change – Support delivery of internal or external changes. Provide tax support to market-initiated projects e.g. innovation to ensure tax strategies and policies are adhered to and opportunities to deliver tax efficiencies are identified and fully evaluated. Keep up to date with tax law changes and best practice; identify tax risks and opportunities and recommend actions. Active engagement in the management and monitoring of market tax risks.