Steven Holmes

1. Responsible for numerous entities across Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, eSwatini). 2. Preparation of monthly/quarterly/annual current tax and deferred tax computations and tax disclosures for year end. 3. Preparation and completion of all tax returns (Income tax and withholding taxes) and making the necessary tax payments (including CFC returns; IT14SD recons; Learnership allowance schedule, etc.). 4. Ensure the business adheres to the Transfer Pricing policy and regular Local File updates; 5. South African and International Tax advisory to companies within the Total Southern Africa group (new ventures into SA, business reorganisations and special projects, including but not limited to CFCs, PEs, POEM, Corporate Rules, applying DTAs, International Secondees, etc.) (including Downstream Oil and Gas companies, Renewables companies, Share scheme trusts, Holding and Operating Companies) 6. Manage over 100,000 assets contained in the Tax Asset Register to ensure correct treatment of assets purchases, disposals, scrapping and expensing; 7. Risk Management of Direct Tax related matters (formulating and updating policies and procedures); 8. Responsible for external, internal and SARS audits on all direct tax matters and managing the relationship with SARS; 9. Manage two direct reports in achieving the above. Achievements: 1. I achieved “Exceeds Expectations” ratings for the three Performance Review periods I was part of. 2. I prepared a submission to National Treasury for amendments to the 10th Schedule to the Income Tax Act. The submission was made by the OPOSA industry body. 3. I performed a detailed review of the companies Tax Asset Register and identified significant savings and cash tax savings for the company. 4. I managed the new IFRS16 implementation from a tax perspective. 5. Automated various tax compliance processes working with the Tableau/PowerBI specialists.

1. Manager on tax tax audits on numerous listed South African companies and multi-national organisations (i.e. review of tax provision, deferred tax, WHT, management of VAT, International Tax, Transfer Pricing and PAYE teams); 2. Tax accounting for various entities in the construction, retail, telecommunications, mining and industrial products industries; 3. Tax compliance work, including: Income Tax returns, provisional tax returns and withholding tax returns; 4. Corporate tax consulting, including: opinions, tax return reviews, section 11(d) reviewed, etc. 5. Tax Function Optimisation, including tax reporting and compliance process reengineering and automation. 6. Tax Risk Management advisory, including designing tax controls, tax policies and strategies, tax function assessments and tax technology assessments. 7. Tax Risk Management implementation and testing, including, tax controls, tax policies and strategies. 8. Managing a compliance portfolio of over 100 expatriates from 14 different companies 9. PAYE and expatriate tax consulting, including: opinions and payroll reviews. 10. Secondments to: o Edcon Holdings as the Direct Tax Manager, responsible for all direct tax reporting across the Group. o General Electric as Tax Manager, responsible for the tax reporting and compliance. o PPC Limited as Direct Tax Manager, responsible for tax reporting and compliance. 11. 3 month secondment to the EY Human Capital department at Reading, England. 12. Developing and taking Tax Performance Advisory solutions and other EY service offerings into the market, responding to Requests for Proposals and other Business Development work. Achievements: 1. I achieved an “Exceeds Expectations” rating in 8 out of 9 annual performance reviews undertaken at EY. 2. The Tax Report (forming part of the Integrated Report) for a JSE listed entity that I prepared with along with the client was selected as winner of the Multinational Companies Category of 2016 Building Public Trust Awards.