At PwC, our people in tax services focus on providing advice and guidance to clients on tax planning, compliance, and strategy. These individuals help businesses navigate complex tax regulations and optimise their tax positions. In indirect tax at PwC, you will focus value-added tax (VAT), goods and services tax (GST), sales tax and other indirect taxes. Your work will involve providing advice and guidance to clients on indirect tax planning, compliance, and strategy, helping businesses navigate complex indirect tax regulations and optimise their indirect tax positions.Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.
Skills
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
- Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
- Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
- Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
- Effectively mentor others.
- Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
- Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
- Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
Our Tax Compliance team is a leading provider of technology enabled compliance and integrated advisory services. The variety of work, size of our team and focus on learning and development brings about opportunities to specialize in particular industries or technical areas.PwC are the market leaders in global Indirect Tax compliance services, providing services to many of the firm’s largest and most important clients. We provide clients with Indirect tax compliance services Globally with a key focus in EMEA.Our team is agile and open to new ways of working. The investment in automation and robotics enables us to be at the forefront of change and innovation. Together, we produce technical excellence, innovative solutions and an outstanding client experience.We are looking for an individual with an interest in developing their experience in indirect tax compliance and developing a career in an established team.Working within the wider team you will be responsible for the review of draft indirect tax returns using our Indirect Tax Technologies. You will be allocated to a portfolio of clients in order that high quality returns are produced and client relationships are developed to maximum potential. You will be responsible for liaising with clients and the wider PwC network in order to ensure quality and timely delivery. You will build relationships with both client contacts and the PwC network.Successful applicants will also have the opportunity to work on ad-hoc global Indirect Tax compliance projects, wider Indirect Tax process projects and assisting clients on issues such as overseas registrations, e-filing, potential impact of new overseas Indirect Tax legislation and tax authority audit support etc.This role provides the successful candidate with an unparalleled opportunity to build global VAT technical skills, global Indirect Tax compliance awareness and the experience of working on complex and challenging assignments. This is an excellent platform for furthering your career within Indirect Tax and opportunities for training are available.
On a Day To Day Basis Responsibilities Will Include
- Dealing with client financial data and processing into our Indirect Tax Technologies
- Reviewing the client specific exception reports produced by the technology
- Managing deliverable and contractual scope to ensure delivery against compliance obligations
- VAT technical and accounting review of draft returns and client specific exception reports;
- Liaising/managing the appropriate client personnel;
- Liaising with the global PwC network;
- Ensuring high quality service delivery to our clients;
- Coaching/Mentoring junior members of the team
- Keeping up to date with legislation and practical changes which impact VAT compliance;
- Managing financials
- Monitoring relevant tax legislation and ensuring VAT processes accommodate technical requirements.
- Developing and maintaining the client relationship for a portfolio of clients
- Understanding client processes and identifying opportunities to help client's further
Essential Skills And Experience
- Good general VAT technical knowledge.
- EMEA VAT compliance experience, 3-6 years preferred with multiple jurisdictions and ideally in a preparer and reviewer role
- EMEA informational report preparation experience (EC Sales List, Intrastat , ESPL etc. )
- E-filing experience
- Experience with indirect tax software (Avalara, OneSource, Vertex, Sovos etc.).
- Experience with VAT compliance calendar maintenance and corresponding work-flows
- Manual VAT /GST return preparation experience
- Maintenance of detailed compliance process manuals
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- A commitment to team working.
- An ability to work within a strict monthly timetable and deadlines.
- Great attention to detail
- Proactive in managing client expectations
- Driven to improve process and procedures
