Vacancies at BDO South Africa

Description

• BDO Cape Town has a vacancy for a suitable qualified and experienced Transfer Pricing Associate Director. Reporting as part of the national Transfer Pricing team, you will inter alia be responsible for:

Project involvement:

• Act as a major point of contact within the firm, predominantly in Cape Town, for the client together with the director. This will include responding quickly to, as well as anticipating, client requests/needs, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the service provided, and maintaining regular contact with clients
• Manage advisory services for the Cape Town market such as transfer pricing setting strategies or advising foreign multinational companies on the tax implications of their operations in the region
• Manage compliance documentation for the Cape Town market such as country-by-country reporting, master files and local files
• Manage accrual reviews and due diligences for the Cape Town market
• Drafting/managing proposals for engagements bearing in mind the expectations of our clients within the Cape Town market
• Developing and pursuing creative strategies while using latest technologies available or to be programmed with our technology department
• Manage billings and cash collection within the firms criteria
• Regular involvement with transfer pricing, tax planning and complex tax issues in conjunction with directors
• Ensure assignments are completed within agreed budgets and keep client/director informed of overruns and plan staff assignments in order to give an appropriate spread of experience
• Ensure that the Firm’s quality control procedures are adhered to including second director review
• Responsible for the review and delivery for the final advice to clients, subject to sign off from directors
• Identify risk and technical matters, as well as selling opportunities, to the director, whilst exercising judgement within agreed parameters

Management:

• Must provide overall support to directors on client matters and assist in the management of clients and the team, this will include support at times for the recruitment and appraising of staff
• Will work as part of management team and be a vital member in Cape Town with other tax managers/directors within the business group, and provide support to the rest of the Tax team
• Actively participate in the management of the national transfer pricing team as well as the Cape Town tax team through director/manager meetings and by attendance at social functions
• Training must be provided to more junior staff both on the job and through monitoring and on the job performance, whilst consistently providing feedback
• Counsel, appraise, develop and motivate staff as appropriate
• Responsible for coaching and developing junior members of staff

Sales and Marketing:

• Must be able to recognize business and sales opportunities and progress these forward with director support
• Participate in bids/proposals for new work
• Able to take advantage of marketing/PR opportunities
• Develop own network of contacts internally and externally and start winning own work

Communication and representation:

• Develop contact with clients at senior level and maintain contact with other levels as appropriate to ensure the firm has the confidence of the client
• Act as a liaison between the client and other specialist service groups within BDO
• Contribute centrally by lecturing on internal courses
• Consult with colleagues and directors on technical and risk matters

Requirements
Qualifications, experience and requirements

• Preferably CA(SA), TA(SA), Attorney with completed M.Com, LLM (Tax Law) or HDip (Tax), or degree or post-graduate degree in economics
• At least 8 years’ experience in Transfer Pricing and preferably International Tax
• Maintain an in depth, up to date, knowledge of taxation
• Specialist knowledge and the ability to deal with complex tax issues
• Project management experience
• Staff management experience
• Ability to manage a substantial client portfolio profitably
• Actively seek opportunities for developing new clients and for selling new services to existing clients
• Experience of dealing with client senior management

Competencies:

• Excellent communication and listening skills
• Excellent writing skills
• Strong analytical and research skills
• Ability to build strong and effective relationships internally and with clients to ensure a professional and quality service that meets required expectations and needs
• Innovation skills to improve systems, processes and procedures
• Confidence and decisiveness with excellent planning and organizing abilities
• Ability to work under pressure and achieve reporting deadlines
• Adherence to principles and values
• Strong business development ability

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Description

• The team actively manages a varied and dynamic range of engagement types, including annual accounting, compilations and Independent Reviews and Financial Statement preparation. All parts of the BDO Annual work team use their skills, insight and integrity to handle the appointed engagements to enable BDO to deliver sustainable growth.
• Actively participates in engagement teams, provides technical support to junior engagement staff in area of expertise. Assists Senior Accountant and management in application of processes in engagements to ensure compliance with the relevant standards and processes and advise on improvements identified in existing processes.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops and maintains the client relationship through communication, listening and responsiveness
• Ability to work in a team and independently
• Good communication skills, internal and external, both written and verbal
• Ability to travel in and around the greater Pretoria (own transport or public)
• Assures quality and efficiency in engagement processes.
• Execute planned assignments as part of a team on each engagement:
• Annual write-up of accounting records utilising the firms preferred software tool, i.e. Xero, SAGE Online, Pastel Partner, Agreed-upon Procedures, Engagements in terms of ISRS 4410
• Compilation Engagements in terms of ISRS 4410
• Independent Review Engagements in terms of ISRE 2400
• Accounting Officer Engagements in terms of Close Corporations Act and Companies Act
• Proposing journals to client (via Senior / Manager)
• Drafting AFS per IFRS and IFRS for SMEs on Caseware(Intermediate level)
• Performing basic tax computations for companies, close corporations and trusts (including SBC’s, special allowances (s12C, s12E, etc)
• Managing own WIP and budgets on engagements with the assistance of the Senior / Manager
• Updating Senior and manager on progress of engagements
• Assist other staff members where needed
• Other duties as may be required in line with the position.
• Implement and follow standard operating procedures and quality process manuals to ensure engagements meet the required standards. Provide feedback on areas of improvement
• Identify cross-selling opportunities of other BDO services to current clients and reporting to management
• Mentors junior staff and leads team in own area of expertise through on the job training and support.
• Delivers clear and coherent messages to Management on quantitative issues and reviews
• Attends required training
• Recommend areas of training and development to senior staff

Requirements
Qualifications/Recognition of Prior Learning equivalent

Minimum:

• B.Com Accounting Degree

Advantageous:

• Hons. B.Com (Accounting or CTA)
• Completed SAICA articles

Membership

• Registered with SAICA or SAIPA

Work Experience

• 1 - 2 years’ experience

Knowledge

An understanding of:

• IFRS
• IFRS for SME’s
• ISRE 2400 (Revised)
• ISRS 4410
• Close Corporations Act
• Companies Act
• Trust Property Control Act
• Income Tax Act
• Value Added Tax Act
• Other legislative and compliance requirements
• Microsoft Office Suite of Applications
• Accounting software, i.e. Xero, Pastel
• Detailed knowledge of Caseware Working Papers preferable 

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Description
Purpose of the role and overall responsibility

• The key roles of the Internal Audit  Manager are to assist the RAS Director team to implement the bigger Advisory Strategy through Growing the Fee Base, Controling WIP, Managing Debtors, Maintaining Client Relationships and Effectively Manage the Team to deliver quality internal audit and consulting activities aligned to the IIA Standards. The Internal  Audit Manager will be responsible for the following key activities to achieve the main objectives:
• Managing Client Relationships and improving client fee base
• Managing staff
• Managing the resources and the WIP
• Quality control on projects in terms of the IIA Standards and IA Methodology
• Ensure effective functioning of the day to day operation of the department / team.
• Attend Audit Committee meetings

Requirements:

Qualifications/Recognition of Prior Learning equivalent:

• B.Com Honours External /Internal Audit/or Informatics/or Computer Science
• CIA or CA 
• CISA added advantage

Work Experience:

• 2 years plus External Audit Exposure 
• 5-8 years in a client facing experience related to internal audit, risk management and general risk advisory services.  3 -5 of these in a management role.
• Data Analytics an advantage