Senior Tax Associate

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Support clients during URA tax audits, compliance checks and investigations.
• Review URA audit findings, tax computations and assessment notices.
• Reconstruct and verify the basis of URA assessments using accounting records and tax returns.
• Prepare technical responses to URA queries and requests for information.
• Prepare objection grounds, supporting computations and evidence files.
• Support Alternative Dispute Resolution and other tax dispute processes.
• Participate in technical meetings with clients and URA officials.
• Track outstanding assessments, objections and agreed actions through to resolution.
• Research and apply Ugandan tax legislation, regulations, practice notes and relevant tax decisions.
• Review general ledgers, trial balances, payrolls, bank records, contracts and financial statements to identify tax exposures.
• Reconcile VAT, PAYE, withholding tax, income tax, EFRIS and other tax records to the general ledger and returns filed.
• Analyse transactions to determine the correct tax treatment.
• Identify unrecorded or under-declared tax liabilities, unsupported tax positions and potential penalties.
• Review deferred tax and current tax computations prepared for financial reporting.
• Prepare clear tax risk schedules for consideration by the financial audit team.
• Assess whether identified tax exposures require adjustment, disclosure or inclusion in management letters.
• Provide technical tax input without taking over the financial audit team’s responsibility for the financial statements.
• Advise teams and clients on the application of Ugandan tax laws.
• Review complex tax returns and computations before submission
• Conduct tax health checks and due-diligence reviews.
• Review EFRIS compliance and related transaction records
• Support clients with tax planning and transaction structuring.
• Prepare concise tax opinions, technical memoranda and client reports
• Train Ardenfield staff on emerging tax risks and changes in tax legislation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Law, Taxation or a related field.
• At least four years of practical Ugandan tax experience.
• Direct experience handling URA audits, assessments, objections or tax investigations.
• Strong technical knowledge of: Income tax and corporation tax, VAT, PAYE and employment taxes, Withholding tax, EFRIS, Tax Procedures Code, Excise duty and other relevant taxes
• Ability to analyse general ledgers and financial statements from a tax perspective.
• Experience preparing tax reconciliations, assessment analyses and objection documents.
• Strong tax research and technical report-writing skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and data-analysis capability.
• Excellent professional communication and client-handling skills.
• High integrity, sound judgement and attention to detail.