Tax Services Generalist at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

A career within Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet and manage their tax obligations across unique but ever changing tax specialties. You’ll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing indirect taxes, dispute resolution, and global enterprise tax solutions.

Our team helps our clients identify and reduce tax risks, meet compliance obligations, implement tax strategies that complement business and operational objectives, resolve disagreements with tax authorities, and manage tax accounting and reporting issues. You’ll be engaged in projects dealing with International tax, mergers and acquisitions, state and local tax accounting, regulatory processes, tax reporting and strategy.To really stand out and make us ?t for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. 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 Manager, 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:

•  Pursue opportunities to develop existing and new skills outside of your comfort zone.
•  Act to resolve issues which prevent effective team working, even during times of change and uncertainty.
•  Coach others and encourage them to take ownership of their development.
•  Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
•  Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
•  Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm’s/client’s expectations.
•  Develop a perspective on key global trends, including globalisation, and how they impact the firm and our clients.
•  Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties
•  Focus on building trusted relationships.
•  Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
• To provide a wide range of consulting services to a Financial Services Industry clients
• Laising with clients and colleagues to provide Corporate Tax Consulting Services.
• Producing high level tax opinions and reports that add value to clients businesses.
• Performing tax reviews as part of statutory audits.
• Attending to Tax related queries from SARS.
• Organising, monitoring and managing your own workload. You will be asked to assist Senior Managers on large groups and ad hoc projects.
• Researching Tax technical issues.
• Cost, fee and debtors management, including WIP.
• Management of own client portfolio
• Management of junior staff members
• Key Internal Clients / Relationships
• Departmental Tax team
• National Tax team
• Relevant firm subject matter experts

Portfolio Managers/Partners

• 2 years of Corporate Tax consulting experience essential and exposure to Financial Services clients would be highly desirable.

Relevant Tax qualification (B. Comm./Acc/Law).
Qualified CA and Postgraduate studies in Tax desirable

• Knowledge and experience in application of the Income Tax Act.
• Have commercial acumen and be driven to provide excellent client service
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work as part of dynamic team
• Attention to detail and the ability to follow-through on tasks
• Good interpersonal skills and professional skills
• Ability to perform in a high pressure environment and work towards deadlines