Assurance - Private Company Services - Tax Compliance Senior Consultant at PwC South Africa

A career in our Tax Compliance Services practice, 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 with compliance across all taxes, statutory accounting and complex tax reporting. You’ll focus on bookkeeping and monthly reporting, drafting, auditing and filing of local statutory financial statements, and transaction processing.
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.

Responsibilities

• Management of a portfolio of clients
• Acting as operational client contact on a portfolio of clients
• Review and preparation of Tax assignments, reporting to Managers/Partners
• Review and preparation of Tax returns (companies, individuals and trusts)
• Review and preparation of technical objections in respect of incorrect assessments
• Review and preparation of correspondence to SARS regarding Tax related queries
• Review and preparation of correspondence to clients regarding Tax related queries
• Assisting with provisional Tax calculations (companies, individuals and trusts)
• Review of registrations for companies for VAT, PAYE, SDL, and UIF
• Review of capital gains transactions
• Review of applications for Tax directives
• Compliance with the firms risk management procedures
• Review and completion of IT14SD
• Management of billing
• Management of staff

Essential skills and experience

• 5 years or more relevant experience

Required qualifications

• Bachelors of Commerce degree or
• Honours degree

Desirable skills or attributes

• Commercial awareness and business acumen
• Strong research skills
• Good writing and drafting 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 towards deadlines
• High attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and multitask
• Ability to mentor and coach people
• Ability to critically review others work