Tax & Legal - Tax Management Consulting - Junior Consultant at Deloitte

Job Description

Main Purpose of Job

In fulfilling the Junior Consultant role you will be a support resource to the Tax Management Consulting engagement team in the delivery of services to or at a client premises on projects or engagements.

In ensuring this you will:

• Develop knowledge of relevant tax rules and regulations and their associated processes to formulate solutions for client problems
• Conducts research and uses appropriate facts, analysis, and conclusions to draft technical advice, reports, memoranda and other deliverables relevant to tax laws and rules
• Remains current on recent developments and changes related to area of tax specialization
• Develop an understanding of quality processes and risk procedures as they relate to clients, including scope
• Supports business development efforts through data gathering, research, or proposal development
• Collect, assimilate, and analyze data and use standard processes and tools to help surface and support solutions in the Tax and Legal business
• Apply technology knowledge to address client business challenges through effective collaboration with SMEs and technologists on business-technology requirements
• Assist clients in mitigating risk, meeting compliance obligations and statuary deadlines, and realize business goals
• Develops solid understanding of the approaches to automate and streamline key processes and tax sensitize pertinent tax data from source systems and the requisite tools
• Supports the client team in the design of processes and data flow that maximize efficiency, comply with regulatory and audit requirements, enable automation, and increase transparency in reporting
• Assists in defining and gathering tax data related to business intelligence and performance, implementation/support of applications, infrastructure and technologies to forecast future trends
• Assists in developing an accurate view of the client’s current risk state by performing technical components of risk assessments

Qualifications

We are looking for a high-performing individual who would like to make an impact that matters and sets the direction in delivering exceptional client services.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree

Desired Qualification:

• Information Systems or BSc Computer Science qualification/degree or BCom, CA (SA)
• Tax qualification

Minimum Experience:

• Recently qualified graduate
• Understanding of Tax technologies 

Desired Experience:

• Two years functional experience in dealing with Tax Technologies 

Additional Information

Technical Competencies:

• Competent in MS Suite

Behavioural Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Effective interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Good mentorship and coaching ability with desire to develop self and others
• Strong client delivery focus
• Adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease
• Focus on quality and risk
• Sound problem solving ability