Tax Project Manager

PwC - Global; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm in Johannesburg is seeking a Manager for project portfolio management. In this role, you will coordinate projects to ensure successful delivery while leveraging strong organizational and communication skills. You'll engage with diverse stakeholders and foster team development to meet client expectations. Ideal candidates will have project management qualifications and experience working in multi-disciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Managing a range of complex, high-value projects.
• Delivering through standard PM methodologies and processes.
• Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Strong communication

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Education

Qualification in project/programme management (e.g., PRINCE2 or similar)

Job description

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in project portfolio management focus on optimising project portfolios to drive strategic business outcomes. These individuals oversee project selection, prioritisation, and resource allocation to facilitate successful project delivery.

In project management at PwC, you will oversee and coordinate various projects to facilitate successful delivery within budget and timeline. You will leverage strong organisational and communication skills to effectively manage teams and stakeholders.

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.

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.

The PwC FS Tax practice

The PwC Financial Services (FS) Tax team is the leading provider of tax services to the Financial Services sector in the UK. Our client bases comprises top tier and mid-sized FS institutions alongside fast growth fintechs, many of whom have significant global footprints. It is a national team of around 420 tax professionals based in offices around the UK in London, Leeds, Bristol and Edinburgh. The team offers a full range of tax services including tax compliance, corporate tax advisory, transfer pricing, international structuring, indirect tax advisory, tax reporting and strategy, stamp duty, HR tax and Tax Investigations. For PwC, the FS marketplace spans the Banking and Capital Markets (BCM), Insurance (INS), Asset Wealth Management (AWM) and Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) industry groups. There are also specialist teams supported by the industry groups and working across FS in Private Client (PC), Indirect Tax (ITX), Tax Reporting & Strategy (TRS) Transfer Pricing (TP), and Disputes.

The need for project management

The FS Tax teams are increasingly engaged on large, complex, multi disciplinary, multi-territory client projects. These projects require an experienced project manager to manage several workstreams, working to a large and varied internal and external stakeholder group. You will have the opportunity to support key projects with clients of varying complexities and sizes.

Key attributes for this role

You will be a strong planner, influencer and have a proven track record in project management and delivery. You will bring high energy, be able to operate in time-constrained environments, thrive on building relationships and continually seek to improve the service offered to stakeholders. You will be culturally sensitive, able to work with clients and teams from diverse backgrounds and styles.

You will be responsible for:

• Managing a range of complex, high value, projects and programmes from kick off through to project closure.
• Delivering through standard PM methodologies and processes (e.g. for planning, reporting, billing) and helping drive adoption throughout a team/programme.
• Building, developing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders of all grades including very senior stakeholders, both internally and with clients.
• Anticipating and recovering potential delivery issues before they occur through proactive management.
• Ensuring the effective use of resources within the programme/Line of Service, to deliver change efficiently and ensuring cost is minimised.
• Supporting projects to set up clear business / scope requirements and ensure delivery of these, communicating progress through the agreed reporting routes and managing changes through the agreed, fit for purpose governance processes.
• Communicating with delivery teams to drive alignment on processes and standards.
• Effectively managing key stakeholders to ensure they understand progress of subworkstreams and interdependent workstreams.
• Facilitating the effective flow of information through the governance structure.
• Creating and maintaining meaningful MI that provides insight to programme progress.
• Regular tracking of the project’s overall status including, risk tracking, budget tracking and financial management.
• Effectively and responsibly leveraging technology tools and working with delivery capability in other territories
• Driving the continuous improvement agenda for the project/team.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

• Qualification in project/programme management (e.g., PRINCE2 or similar)
• Experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams – experience of working within the Financial Services sector would be beneficial.
• Proficiency in both waterfall and agile methodologies with a growth mindset embedding best practice through a culture of continuous improvement and coaching.
• Capable of switching between workstream detail and programme level and can join the dots across organisation, strategy, programme, and project levels.
• Excellent communication and relationships building skills.
• Evidenced ability to command respect and create a sense of vision and purpose amongst the project team.
• Experienced at presenting to Exec level stakeholders, with the ability to influence stakeholders to drive successful outcomes.

Travel Requirements: Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?: No

Job Posting End Date: September 6, 2025