Director: Corporate Tax Consulting at BDO South Africa

Purpose of the Role:
The purpose of this role is to assist with the implementation and development of strategic initiatives with tax leadership nationally and across other tax service lines.

Main Responsibilities and Duties:

• Executing and reviewing tax consulting deliverables and leading risk management and business development activities to support the tax consulting division.
• Leading and directing multiple, diverse and complex engagements and consulting projects.
• Actively monitoring and tracking the financial performance of the tax consulting division and implement corrective measures as needed to ultimately take responsibility for the division’s outputs in line with the firm’s strategic objectives.
• Day-to-day management of the division, along with the broader Corporate Tax Consulting business units, which include (but are not limited to) functions such as:
• Financial management (budget and WIP monitoring)
• Employee management
• Quality assurance of related deliverables
• Budget and fee negotiations
• Risk management

Requirements    
Skills and Qualifications:

• CA(SA) qualification.
• A minimum of 10 years’ post-qualification experience, with 5 years in a tax management position, specifically dealing with corporate tax consulting.
• Practical experience, which includes but not limited to corporate tax consulting opinions, accrual reviews, tax effect accounting and due diligence reviews relating to clients from a wide variety of industries.
• Deep technical and risk management capacity.
• Ability to analyse and make decisions regarding complex accounting, taxation, and risk management matters.
• Able to review working papers, engagement files and draft technical reports of high quality, and then be able to present the results to senior level staff members at BDO and to clients.
• Experience in a professional services or financial services firm will be advantageous.

Competencies:

• Client-focused
• Building trust and relationships
• Fostering collaborative teamwork
• Accessibility, persuasiveness and influencing
• Proactiveness
• Fostering active communication
• Continuously seeking to add value
• Aligning career aspirations with the strategies, goals and objectives of the team and firm
• Ability to work with all levels within an organisation
• Demonstration of passion and energy to tax and to the specific area of specialisation

Job Closing Date: 16th, March 2022