Senior Associate 3 at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description

Job Description Purpose of this Position

Within our Corporate Tax group, the Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) team offers its expertise to clients to enable them to deliver tax effective business transactions, whether they be restructuring, due diligence, re-financings, BEE transactions, mergers and acquisitions or divestments.

Responsibilities

• Assist with buy side and sell side due diligences.
• Assist in advising clients on the structuring of business transactions and tax implications thereof;
• Drafting of opinions for clients on the tax consequences of restructures, mergers and acquisitions as well as other pertinent matters;
• Research of complex tax issues;
• Interpretation of tax legislation;
• Liaison with SARS and Counsel regarding complex and uncertain tax matters; and
• Assist With The Implementation Of Transactions Including
• review of financial models; and
• Transaction legals.
• Tax Senior Consultant responsibilities in respect of the above will include:
• Planning assignment approach including understanding client expectations and scoping work;
• Pro-actively identifying areas of contention and discussing these with the engagement team and proposing solutions (where possible);
• Ensuring timely delivery;
• Assisting with financial portfolio management including WIP management, billings and cash collection.
• Complying with risk management procedures
• Training and performance management of consultants.
• Assisting in managing the work performance of consultants.
• Assist in expanding professional network internally and externally.
• Assist in supervising office administration functions.

Key Internal Clients / Relationships

• M&A Partners, Managers and team
• The larger Tax community and staff
• Cross Line (X-Los) Partners and Managers
• Relevant firm subject matter experts
• Transaction Services
• Corporate Finance

Skills / Qualifications / Knowledge Required

• Relevant professional qualification (CA/Admitted attorney and/or Postgraduate studies in Tax)
• 2 – 3 years’ experience in a tax consulting environment.
• A post-graduate tax qualification would be ideal.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-starter with the ability to provide solutions to business problems
• Ability to multi-task yet still pay attention to detail
• Strong analyitical skills
• Excellent time management skills and ability to work in a high performance team environment
• Excellent project management skills
• Ability to coach and train team members.