Management Level

Senior Associate

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.

Tax consultant focusing on the unique tax considerations of nonprofits with a primary focus on income tax and good understanding of VAT and PAYE matters specifically pertaining to the industry (60%) and general tax compliance and consulting for taxable private companies (40%). 

Audit of tax (tax status & compliance reviews):

collecting and considering tax and legal documentation to test compliance with tax exempt status conditions and extent of the application of the exemption to different income streams. 

Tax compliance for non-profits:

including the consideration of, consulting in respect of eligibility for tax exemption and end-to-end application to the SARS Tax Exemption Unit; In person attendance of meetings with the SARS Tax Exemption Unit in Pretoria to sort out outstanding, complex and/or urgent tax administration matters; Preparation/review/ consulting on and submission of IT12EI. IT3(d) and IT3(t) tax returns/declarations; consideration of legal compliance matters, consulting and communication with the client and SARS TEU on the impact of the updates/changes on its tax status. 

Tax consulting:

reviewing of matters which may impact on the tax status of an existing nonprofit and drafting tax opinions, applications for nonbinding tax opinions or SARS rulings / setting up new nonprofit entities, considering and consulting on matters which may affect the ongoing compliance of non-profits with their respective tax exemption conditions. 

Assignment engagement and completion support

(preparation of proposals, statements of work, scoping documents, project plans, client acceptance documentation, collection and capturing of assignment documentation, preparation of reviewed documents for final signoff and capturing of signed document on client file (document system) 

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

December 31, 2024