Deals Tax Senior Associate (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.

Purpose of this Position

Within our Corporate Tax group, the Deals Tax 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 the team 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 Consultant responsibilities in respect of the above will include:

• Assisting management in planning assignment approach including understanding client expectations and scoping work;

• Ensuring timely delivery, including performing relevant research, review of information, identifying tax issues and drafting of deliverables; 
  Assisting with financial portfolio management including WIP management, billings and cash collection.

• Complying with risk management procedures
   

Key Internal Clients / Relationships

• Deals Tax 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)

• At least 1 year experience in a tax consulting environment would be preferred and 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 analytical skills

• Excellent time management skills and ability to work in a high performance team environment

• Excellent project management skills