Corporate Tax Manager

PwC South Africa; Calgary; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

PwC South Africa is seeking a Manager in Tax to provide expert advice on tax planning and compliance. You will manage a diverse range of clients, focusing on optimizing their tax strategies and ensuring compliance with regulations.

The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, a CPA designation, and a proven track record in leadership within tax services. Competitive compensation is provided, reflecting experience and performance.

Qualifications

• Proven leader with strong business development skills.
• Ability to manage, develop, retain, and mentor junior tax professionals.
• Strong technical background in tax regulations and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on local and cross-border tax affairs.
• Improve clients' tax functions and decision-making.
• Stay updated on tax developments and engage clients.

Skills

Strong analytical capability

Interpersonal and communication skills

Business development skills

Organizational skills

Education

CPA (CA, CMA, or CGA) or other accounting designation

Completion or near completion of the CPA

In-depth Tax Course or Master of Taxation (MTax)

Job description

Overview

Line of Service Tax Industry/Sector Not Applicable Specialism Industry Tax Practice Management Level Manager Job Description & Summary 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. Those in international tax at PwC will provide advice and guidance to clients on structuring their global tax positions. Your work will involve analysing international tax laws and regulations to develop strategies that optimise tax efficiency and minimise risks for multinational businesses.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on local and cross border tax affairs, acting as a strategic consultant, leveraging your understanding of their business requirements and innovative tax optimization techniques.
• Understand client stakeholder objectives, with the ability to navigate the client’s business operations to bring ideas for tax efficiency, including for example reorganisations, business expansion, exits, often involving a multi-disciplinary tax team in a role of primary client point of contact.
• Improve clients' tax functions to control risk and facilitate better decision‑making.
• Focus on tax strategy, ensuring compliance, increasing post‑tax profits, and providing application support for best corporate tax practices.
• Stay abreast of tax developments relevant to your client portfolio, proactively engaging clients in discussions to timely address tax considerations, including sharing such experiences amongst the broader service team and colleagues.
• Work directly with a wide variety of public and private clients across multiple industries and jurisdictions to provide distinctive client service.
• Manage the client service team on a portfolio of clients, including budgeting, engagement letters, technology deployment, resource and work allocation, and billing and coordination with other PwC teams involved with client.
• Develop new skills outside of comfort zone and act to resolve issues preventing effective teamwork.
• Coach others, recognize their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Analyze complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations using multiple sources of information.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct, focusing on building trusted relationships internally and with clients.

Qualifications and Skills

• CPA (CA, CMA, or CGA) or other accounting designation is an asset.
• Completion or near completion of the CPA.
• In‑depth Tax Course or Master of Taxation (MTax) program is an asset.
• Strong technical background and broad‑based tax skills as a result of prior experience in a professional services firm or in industry.
• A proven leader with strong business development and entrepreneurial skills who possesses exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong analytical capability, sound business sense, and a creative mind that has earned you the reputation of providing excellence in client service.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage multiple assignments in an organized manner.
• Ability to manage, develop, retain, and mentor junior tax professionals.
• Strong organisational skills and a positive attitude when working under pressure.
• Interact in a personable manner, with the ability to build and lead teams, including the coordination of both local and global subject‑matter experts, with an eye for managing the client’s experience.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $84,700 - $134,700. The posted salary range represents the expected hiring range for PwC locations in major city centres. At PwC Canada, base salary is determined by your skills, experience, qualifications and work location. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may have opportunities to participate in variable incentive pay programs which are designed to reward individual and firm‑wide achievements.

EEO Statement

PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.