Transfer Pricing - Manager

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 transfer pricing at PwC, you will focus on providing guidance and support to clients on transfer pricing matters. In this field, you will help businesses establish and maintain appropriate pricing for transactions between related entities, maintaining compliance with tax regulations and minimising the risk of disputes.The OpportunityWhen you join PwC Acceleration Centers (ACs), you step into a pivotal role focused on actively supporting various Acceleration Center services, from Advisory to Assurance, Tax and Business Services. In our innovative hubs, you’ll engage in challenging projects and provide distinctive services to support client engagements through enhanced quality and innovation. You’ll also participate in dynamic and digitally enabled training that is designed to grow your technical and professional skills.As part of the Tax Services team you will manage transfer pricing projects for clients. As a Manager, you will oversee project delivery, mentor team members, and maintain compliance with international taxation principles while upholding quality standards.It's fair to say there's no average day for a Transfer Pricing Manager, so you're likely to spend your time on a diverse array of projects, responsibilities, and tasks. Whatever you are working on, our clients will turn to you for up-to-the-minute TP advice they can always rely on. To make that happen, you'll be working in a highly collaborative culture, where listening to and sharing information with colleagues is an essential part of the role.You’ll be involved in all stages of the project lifecycle, making this the right opportunity to take on varied responsibilities and diversifying your skills and experience. The role will require you to manage projects and teams and involve yourself in business development initiatives which will focus on enhancing the best practices and process optimization.Building long term relationships with clients and providing quality deliverables consistently and coordinating work with colleagues globally to drive collaboration and efficiency will be critical for the success of the role.You’ll need to be confident in mentoring /coaching and reviewing your colleagues’ work and sharing your knowledge and experience to allow continuous growth within the teams. The role will also require you to develop people by providing continuous feedback and conducting their performance reviews and work with them for their succession planning. You will have the opportunity to seek continuous learning opportunities, key developmental experiences, formal learning for both self and the team.As a manager, you’ll also need to understand, follow and communicate compliance requirement and policies.PwC is investing in the well-being of its employees and as a manager, you will need to ensure the wellbeing of your team members with the help of various well-being resources offered by the firm.

Responsibilities

• Experience- 7 to 12 years
• A strong understanding of transfer pricing concepts and international taxation principles – Should be able to understand, follow, and communicate compliance requirement and policies.
• Significant review experience in transfer pricing global documentation process (preferably from a Big 4) such as:
• Master File/ Local File/ CbCr
• Benchmarking Studies for different regions like EMEA, APAC and North America
• Intangible benchmarking such as licensing and service fee benchmarking studies; and
• Financial transaction/financial services studies (such as credit quality estimation, loan/bond benchmarking, guarantee fee/cash pool studies, Bloomberg data mining, etc.
• Good working knowledge of TP databases such as TP Catalyst, Compustat, RoyaltyStat and Financial transactions databases such as Bloomberg, Loan Connector among others.
• Collaborated with global teams with strong interpersonal skills.
• Experience in engagement-related activities like budgeting and billing, allocation of work to team members based on their specialization, ensuring that all deadlines/services standards are met and are within budgets, serving as a primary point of contact for clients, and escalating issues to engagement teams as needed.
• Ability to identify potential opportunities and risks and communicating these to clients in a timely manner.
• Experience in managing and motivating a team of professionals, ensuring they have the skills, knowledge, and opportunities to reach to their full potential.
• Actively participated in team and people management, resource planning and allocation, recruitment, and retention of talent within the teams
  

Additional Information

We're looking for people who can speak up confidently, with a genuine desire to make things better across the business. If you're ready to further build on your reputation as a TP professional, this role is for you.In Tax, promotion to Manager requires the holding of an active primary credential of either (1) US CPA or foreign equivalent or (2) US Enrolled Agent in good standing with an appropriate regulatory body or (3) a Firm approved Secondary Credential

• For Manager candidates in process who have the credential, once onboarded, it must be submitted and kept up to date in the appropriate system of record.
• For candidates in process from now on that do NOT have the credential, please review the following talking points and next steps:
• If a candidate wishes to continue in the process, it will be their professional responsibility to complete the appropriate acceptable credential exams and to obtain their acceptable credential as early in your career as possible."