Tax Accountant
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
The Tax Accountant is a subject matter expert role in MBIE. The Tax Accountant will bring their skills and experience to embed and sustain proactive oversight over the tax obligations and related compliance management activities for MBIE. The Tax Accountant will deliver education across the wider business and be the central point of reference for customer support on tax matters.
The Tax Accountant is responsible for ensuring quality and consistency of advice and practices in relation to their area of expertise.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Personal specifications
- Experience in tax accounting in a medium to large organisation
- Demonstrated problem analysis skills and sound judgement
- Demonstrated communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate technical information in plain language
- Demonstrated ability to identify and effectively manage risks to maximise outcomes
- A demonstrable commitment to developing expertise in tax management
- Proven ability to develop trust and credibility with managers and staff
- Advance excel skills
- CA qualified with 3-5 years post qualification experience preferred
Pre-requisites
- Must consent to and satisfactorily complete a credit check
- Must have the right to live and work in New Zealand
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
Indicators of success
- Delivery of specialist Tax Accounting services that actively support and contribute to the achievement of the Ministry’s outcomes and that deliver to the needs of internal and external stakeholders
- Deliver quality month end processes to support the attestation process across tax requirements
- Identify, analyse and advise on tax compliance and filing requirements
- Prepare and file returns ensuring deadlines are met
- Analyse and respond to tax assessments
- Determine and plan timing of tax liabilities ensuring payment deadlines are met
- Advise management on applicable new tax legislation on an ongoing basis and analyse business impacts
- Analyse tax consequences of transactions
- Participate in identifying and analysing tax planning and structuring activities
- Participate in managing key relationships and networks
- Participate in preparing information to support objections, appeals and litigation
- Detailed monthly General Ledger Balance Sheet reconciliations occur for all tax accounts. Ensuring there is a robust process to clear outstanding reconciling items identified and that all balances are validated by supporting documentation
- Process monthly tax journals
- Respond to tax queries raised in tax inbox in a timely manner
- Assist with delivering tax training modules to Finance Support staff
- Seek opportunities for continuous improvement in the area of financial controls, reconciliation and month end processes and compliance
- Ensure all processes are documented through detailed process notes and that these are regularly reviewed/updated
- Work collaboratively across all of Finance & Performance and other MBIE teams to deliver quality outcomes
Customer focus
- Provides excellent customer service to internal and external stakeholders in all situations, including existing service level agreements, to a required standard.
- Provision of operational support and guidance on all Finance and Performance systems, including ad-hoc internal stakeholder support and instruction to ensure operation in alignment with MBIE policies and procedures.
- Delivers the requirements and expectations of customers
- Treats internal customers with the same courtesies they would extend to external customers
- Works hard to meet customer deadlines
- Always looks to improve service
- Maintains professionalism
- Looks for opportunities to provide value
Action oriented
- Self-starter
- Takes responsibility for own work. Well organised, plans systematically, regularly monitors and reports on progress towards achievement of team’s objectives
- Seeks input if required. Knows when to work alone and when to seek advice and identifies resources necessary to meet objectives of self or team
- Recognises and acts on opportunities
- Support and cover for other team members as business needs require
- Additional support to the Team Leader and/or Manager as/where required
- Effectively and consistently identifies and manages risk, escalating unresolved and potential problems to the Team Leader and/or Manager with proposed solutions
- Encourages and supports open honest and constructive relationships with colleagues
- Ensures data integrity accuracy and confidentiality are maintained at all times
Wellbeing, health & safety
- Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives.
- Ensures own and others safety at all times.
- Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting.
- Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion.
- Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation.
Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū – Your place in the Ministry
The Tax Accountant position reports into the Manager of Financial Accounting and Control within the Enterprise Planning, Performance and Reporting branch. The branch sits within the Finance and Performance group.
To mātou aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand
Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose, Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All.
To Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi. Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.
As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world. We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders. We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).
Ngā matatau – Our competencies
Cultivates innovation We create new and better ways for the organisation to be successful by challenging the status quo generating new and creative ideas and translating them into workable solutions.
Nimble learning We are curious and actively learn through experimentation when tackling new problems by learning as we go when facing new situations and challenges.
Customer focus We build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions by listening and gaining insights into the needs of the communities we serve and actively seeking and responding to feedback.
Decision quality We make quality and timely decisions that shape the future for our communities and keep the organisation moving forward by relying on an appropriate mix of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgement to make valid and reliable decisions.
Action oriented We step up, taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with purpose, urgency and discipline by taking responsibility, ownership and action on challenges, and being accountable for the results.
Collaborates We connect, working together to build partnerships with our communities, working collaboratively to meet shared objectives by gaining trust and support of others; actively seeking the views, experiences, and opinions of others and by working co-operatively with others across MBIE, the public sector and external stakeholder groups.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti). Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All. The principles of Te Tiriti - including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work. MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.
Mahi i roto i te Ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the public service
Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.
In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.
What does it mean to work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public Service?(external link) — Te Kawa Mataaho The Public Service Commission
