Leadership

The two founders,  Adv. Carien van Dijk and Penny Smith, saw a gap in the market and decided to enter the daunting world of entrepreneurship. Each of them had their own unique set of skills that they brought to the table.

Adv. Carien van Dijk is the Executive Director of Tax Services of the Supremacy Group. She is a Tax Advocate at the High Court and she is a Master Tax Practitioner at SARS. She obtained her LLB and LLM: Taxation from the University of Pretoria and is currently also a lecturer at Varsity College in Sandton. Adv. Carien previously worked at FirstRand Bank Limited, where she was the Senior PAYE and TAA Specialist, focusing on the employment and tax administration requirements of FNB and FirstRand Corporate Centre. Previously she also formed part of the Employment Services Tax Team in PricewaterhouseCoopers – Sunninghill looking after various big brand Companies. 

During her Payroll World Cycle, Penny Smith (previously Cass), the Payroll & Business Development Director, was a Payroll Administrator, Snr Payroll Software Consultant & Trainer and Snr PAYE Auditor at SARS where she conducted comprehensive Payroll audits on selected companies, which included large corporates and banks. She obtained her Higher Diploma in Taxation whilst at SARS. Thereafter she joined the FirstRand Group in the tax department as Employees’ Tax & Benefits Manager: Payroll where she assisted with the compliant implementation and maintenance of the Oracle system both in South Africa and certain African countries. She rewrote the specifications for the tax calculation which was implemented by the Oracle Payroll System nationwide.

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