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• As a Manager you are required to assist the senior management of the team in ensuring that we continue to add value to our clients. Attending client meetings, guiding junior staff on risk management and drafting documents are part and parcel of the opportunity. Drafting opinions, responses to SARS audit findings and general Customs and or Excise advise are expected from the successful candidate. The ability to work with Excel and or PowerBI to analyse big data is a requirement

Skills and Attributes for success

• The ability to work in a team effectively and constructively is a must
• Client focused, an ability to actively maintain and develop strong relationships with clients
• An effective time manager and planner
• Excellent communication skills, demonstrated through effective writing and articulate discussion
• Drafting clear and concise documents is important

To qualify for the role, you must have  

• A University Degree in Law, Commerce Honours, Accounting Honours, and or Logistics Honours is required
• Around 3 - 5 years working experience in consulting and 1 – 2 years in a managerial role is required
• Work experience in Customs, Excise, Logistics and or International Trade is preferred

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Other accredited Customs, Excise and or International Trade qualifications would be beneficial

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• As a senior consultant in EY Government Grants and Incentives team, you will have the opportunity to advise some of the largest companies in the world on the incentives available from the department of Trade Industry and Competition (dtic).

Key Responsibilities

• Th Assist clients with quantifying opportunities to benefit from investment incentive grants and tax allowances.
• Assist clients with investment incentive and tax allowance compliance:
• Completing incentive grant and tax allowance applications.
• Advising clients on the identification of opportunities that their investments may qualify for investment incentive grants or tax allowances.
• Developing and operationalizing grant applications for investment projects.
• Completing incentive grant and tax allowance claims and managing to receipt of benefits.
• Understanding the impact of programme changes and investment project developments and impacts to accessing the investment incentive grant and tax allowance benefits.
• Assisting and advising clients with remedial actions.
• Identify new opportunities for new investment grant and tax allowance projects.
• Developing relationships with clients and administering authorities.
• Assisting the team with updating the consolidated tracker to monitor approvals and claim deadlines.
• Assisting the team the ad hoc administration, quality risk process and code management process.

Skills and attributes for success

• Organisational, analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• An excellent communicator, analytical, organised, structured, and result orientated approach to work.
• strong writing skills, ability to read, interpret and organise financial data
• Attention to detail.
• Good planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.
• High multi-tasking and project management
• Self-driven, dynamic, and professional.
• An ability to work with people and always maintain a work / people skills balance.
• An effective time manager and project planner who is focused on delivering exceptional client services.
• An ability to maintain and develop relations with clients and administering authorities
• An ability to multi-task and manage a diverse portfolio of clients

Requirements

• B. Com Degree (preferably accounting major (or similar).
• Business acumen.
• Experience in understanding different industrial and manufacturing processes is preferential.
• Experience in an Advisory environment is preferred.
   

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The opportunity

• This is a period of unprecedented change in the tax arena with technological innovation and regulatory change resulting in a huge demand for delivery of Indirect Tax advisory services. The projects that the team are working on are innovative, technically challenging and technology driven, which makes it one of the most exciting places to work in tax, but also a place where you can learn and build upon your understanding of a broad range of Indirect Tax concepts to develop your career as a skilled and trusted tax professional in a changing market. We are seeking a talented self-driven individual to provide support to our Indirect Tax (VAT) team. The individual will be responsible for general VAT consulting, VAT controversy, VAT health checks, due diligence reviews, delivering high quality VAT audits and growing the business by networking and managing key relationships with our clients.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be part of a team responsible for the successful delivery of Indirect Tax engagements, taking a professional, practical and commercial approach and ensuring technical excellence
• You will be responsible for identifying opportunities in the market and developing our commercial proposition to new and existing clients
• You will build and maintain relationships with our current and prospective clients
• Build relationships both within the firm and externally with clients, identifying opportunities and managing expectations
• Win work by proactively managing existing clients and targets

Skills and attributes for success

• Ability to build strong client relationships and committed to delivery of exceptional client service
• Relationship management skills
• Strong and motivated team player who integrates with new teams quickly
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations
• Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out effective reviews and know when to refer upwards
• Effective time management - ability to remain calm when meeting deadlines
• Proven ability to analyse and create innovative solutions to problems
• An excellent communicator, analytical, organised, structured and result orientated approach to work
• Ability to draft technical opinions
• Exposure to tax controversy
• Current relevant knowledge of the VAT Act and relevant case law
• Attention to detail

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Indirect Tax (VAT) experience and commercial skills with the interest to develop further
• Strong client relationship management skills with the ability to understand client needs and deliver quality outputs
• B. Comm (Hons), LLB or other similar degree with at least 3 years tax experience.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Project management skills, plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines, monitor own budget

What we look for

•  You’ll proactively maintain your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of developments in Indirect Tax trends and issues so that you can better advise our clients. In return we’ll provide investment in the right sort of training and offer you the opportunities that will develop and challenge you so that you’re in the best place to develop your career.
• The types of project you’ll contribute towards may include:
• Expansion into new markets
• Organisational structure rationalisation
• Business model redesign
• Managing the risk arising from global law changes