Tax Consultant Karachi 6 months contract

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The opportunity

We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Tax Consultant to join our finance and compliance team. This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic tax environment engage with local and foreign vendors and manage critical tax processes including withholding taxes sales tax and monthly regulatory filings.
You will play a key role in resolving tax-related queries ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and supporting continuous improvement in tax operations. This position is ideal for someone who is proactive highly organized and thrives in a fast-paced data-driven environment.

Your key responsibilities

• Solve and clear all daily tax and GR-related queries.
• Manually provide tax treatments for GR discrepancies and shortage issues.
• Counsel vendors on tax matters through email communication.
• Review update and approve Cora issues and highlight vendor errors.
• Handle exemption certificate queries responses and updates.
• Prepare weekly local withholding tax payments (UPL & UPFL).
• Match all documents to payments and extract refund cases for tracking.
• Maintain refund data especially items mistakenly deducted by Cora.
• Prepare merged payment files and CPRs for vendors.
• Counsel vendors regarding refund status and related concerns.
• Manage foreign withholding tax payments and post them in Blackline.
• Provide deduction certificates to foreign vendors when required.
• Work monthly on Time Bart purchase data for UPL.
• Match einvoicing with output reports to determine invoices for manual Annex C upload.
• Extract BR from SAP to identify lines requiring manual uploads.
• Prepare and upload templates in FBR and validate Annex C accuracy.
• Review each invoice to determine claimable vs. nonclaimable sales tax.
• Accept claimable invoices on the FBR portal.
• Process monthly sales tax claims (approx. 50M on Time Bart alone).
• Prepare monthly sales tax withholding statements on IRIS.
• Extract GL data from SAP for withholding calculations.
• Verify withholding accuracy by checking invoices in Cora and tax opinions.
• Allocate withholding across provincial jurisdictions.
• Prepare provincial PSIDs and upload payment templates in Blackline.
• Prepare draft returns for PRA BRA KPRA and SRB.
• Perform Sindh Sales Tax Distribution Margin workings for UPL and UPFL.
• Extract SAP data and verify customer registration status via SRB.
• Prepare workings and payments for registered customers based on CD team invoices.
• Prepare workings for unregistered customers using SAP data and post entries in SAP.
• File calculations with SRB monthly return

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Strong knowledge of local and foreign withholding tax processes.
• Understanding of sales tax rules claim procedures and tax treatment principles.
• Experience working with SAP FBR portal SRB system and Blackline.
• Ability to prepare PSIDs CPRs payment files and statutory templates.
• Strong analytical and reconciliation skills for large data volumes.
• Excellent accuracy and attention to detail in tax calculations and reviews.
• Effective communication skills for handling vendor queries.
• Strong organizational skills to manage weekly and monthly tax cycles.
• Ability to review invoices identify tax discrepancies and apply correct treatments.
• Proficiency in reviewing system postings and validating tax opinions.

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