EUR Consultant - Cape Town at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

• A career within Corporate Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their business. You’ll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners. You’ll also help organisations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties, as well as providing advice on tax implications of deals.
• Our team helps our clients improve their tax function to control risk and facilitate better decision making. You’ll focus on helping businesses with tax strategy, ensuring tax compliance, increasing post tax profits, and providing application support to achieve the best corporate tax practices.
• To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

JOB PURPOSE

• Manage client portfolios
• Maintain sound client relationships
• Manage the team, including the coaching and development of staff
• The effective execution of an array of tax calculation and tax consulting services to clients in the mining industry.

A. JOB PROFILE
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Duties

• Liaising with clients and colleagues to provide income tax and mineral royalty tax services to clients.
• Managing a range of tax assignments reporting to Managers, Directors and Partners.
• Producing income tax and mineral royalty tax opinions that add value to client’s business.
• Perform income tax and mineral royalty tax reviews as part of statutory audits and due diligence projects.
• Review income tax and mineral royalty tax returns.
• Attend to income tax and mineral royalty tax queries from SARS.
• Act as operational client contact on a portfolio of clients.
• Management of billings, debtors and assignment budgeting.
• Compliance with risk management procedures.
• Expand professional network internally and externally.

B. PERSON PROFILE

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

• BComm with Accounting or LLB;
• Completed SAIT or Legal articles (post articles experience will be an added advantage);
• Post-Graduate Qualification in Tax is desirable.

EXPERIENCE

• 2-5 years corporate Tax experience required, specifically in the mining industry.
• Commercial awareness and business acumen.

KEY KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Mining Tax and Mineral Royalty Tax experience.
• Strong research skills.
• Ability to provide solutions to business problems – analytical skills.
• Good client relationship management skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to prioritise and work under pressure.
• Organisation and time management skills.
• Ability to work to deadlines.
• Pays attention to detail.
• People management skills - Coaching and providing feedback & delegation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and multi-task.

C. COMPETENCIES

• Results oriented with leadership qualities.
• Self starter, confident.
• Lateral thinker.
• Self motivated.

JOB PROFILE

• Takes initiative and responsibility for personal development and updated technical knowledge.
• Positive attitude.