PwC Consultant - Tax Mid-Market COE Jobs in South Africa

PwC Consultant - Tax Mid-Market COE Jobs in South Africa


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 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:

  • Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.

  • Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.

  • Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.

  • Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.

  • Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.

  • Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.

  • Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.

  • Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.

  • Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.

  • Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

    Job Profile

    Principal Accountabilities

    Particular focus areas include:

  • Support the transformation of the tax practice by (1) providing coaching and training (2) Delegation of work to support utilisation of staff (3) coach and grow staff for promotion

  • Provide input into 482 (Taxonomy) transformation plan;

  • Support and partake in CSR activities

  • Uphold the PwC brand - quality underpin every activity

  • Demonstrate the ability to manage 50 - 100 clients

  • Proactively initiate risk request and fully comply (100%) with firm Q&RM policies

  • Timesheets completed on weekly basis.

  • Manage WIP management/Debtors <120 days.

  • Achieve 100% of individual production budget as agreed with partner and strive to meet firm wide benchmark (CIT: 990 hours)

  • Manage Net revenue as agreed with partner

  • Support standardisation of templates, processes and utilisation of technology platforms in transition to EC, AODocs, Data Snipper

  • Client (New and Existing) executed opportunities to be evidenced and invite leaders from cross line of
    service to accompany you to meeting

  • Giving timeous feedback to coachees and reviewees and ensure timeous completion of feedbacks and appraisal document, minimum of 2 snapshots per quarter

  • Coaching in respect of career aspirations (at least 1 meeting per quarter)

  • At least four (4) snap shots for coachees per review cycle

  • Attend all mandatory training (40hrs) 15 tax specific verifiable via assessment. Share knowledge and experience and participate in training sessions

  • Meet SAICA CPD requirements (If applicable).

  • Ensuring tax accounting and tax compliance opportunities are captured on Salesforce

  • 100% adherence to the CIT working methodologies by utilisation of the following: Taxpac, Pioneer, Google, Tracker, CCH Integrator, Engagement Centre, AODocs etc.

  • Support the implementation of Silverfin - at least 1 return by end of FY23

  • Increase client base and develop/win new clients by way of establishing and growing the CoE by liaising with the Gauteng and Western Cape and other tax teams across SA;

  • Seeking opportunities to work with other partners / AD’s / SM’s to develop & strengthen the XLOS relationships within PwC;

  • Working with Ian to effectively build and manage the CoE;

  • Tracking hours saved by the CoE; Aiming to save between 4,500 and 5,500 hours (hours to be agreed with partner)

  • Developing and managing the pipelines and planning of staff;

  • Finance administration process to be developed;

  • Administration regarding the setup of the follow up information sessions with the relevant partners, AD’s and SM’s;

  • Responsible for Invoicing / IOCN / WIP transfer of projects;

  • Developing and rolling out a standardised deliverable for the audit of tax assignments that is agreed upon by the CoE and different tax teams;

  • Obtain buy-in from tax teams across SA for the clients coming over to the CoE, where the time lines, scope and budgets are agreed upon;

  • Assist Partner with performance management of the CoE;

  • Assist HC, with recruitment of staff in the CoE;

  • Assist with training for technical, product delivery & professional as well as onboarding;

  • Assist with the Methodology (AoT and tax compliance) and training thereof;

  • Assist with technology being rolled out in CoE;

  • Assist Melanie, Ian and Lizandre with delivery of AoT and Corporate Tax compliance assignments;

    Minimum Qualifications

  • BCom Accounting;

  • Qualified CA(SA) will be advantageous;

  • Post graduate Degree or Diploma in taxation or in process of studying in this regard;

  • Completed SAIT or SAICA articles.

    Experience

  • 5-10 years of experience

    Key Knowledge and Skills

  • Commercial awareness and business acumen;

  • Strong corporate tax skills;

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;

  • Self-starter with the ability to provide solutions to business problems;

  • Ability to multitask, yet still pay attention to detail;

    How to Apply]

    For more information and job application details, see; PwC Consultant - Tax Mid-Market COE Jobs in South Africa

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