Transfer Pricing Senior Associate, PwC Birmingham (flexible working)

A career in our Corporate Transfer Pricing practice, within Transfer Pricing services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients develop compliant, tax efficient structures that help advance their business goals.

You'll focus on all aspects of documentation planning, dispute resolution, and advance pricing agreements.

Our team helps our clients with a range of transfer pricing solutions including compliance, advancing pricing agreements, and defence and dispute resolution. You'll focus on helping clients with business transformation that ultimately helps advance their business goals.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy through to implementation and execution.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to

Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Managers and above;
Support in the financial management of clients including billing, cash collection and profitability;
Support in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients;
Build strong relationships with clients;
Contribute to the development of your technical acumen and share experience and knowledge with others;
Assist in the delivering of large projects, often covering multiple jurisdictions and / or across multiple PwC tax teams;
Train, coach, and supervise junior staff;Keep up to date with national and international business and economic issues;
Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand.

About the role

PwC's transfer pricing practice has been consistently ranked as the leading practice by the International Tax Review. We have expert teams across the world comprising over 600 specialists in economics, accounting, project management and tax law. This combination of experience enables us to develop innovative approaches to transfer pricing issues.

Work within the Transfer Pricing Team is mainly project based and will involve working with multinational companies. The nature of the work is very varied and includes involvement with all types of intercompany transactions including products, services, IP and debt.

The role includes

Undertaking transfer pricing planning and pricing implementation;Involvement and coordination of European and global transfer pricing engagements working with specialists across our global network;
Supporting companies through all elements of business change and value chain transformation (e.g. transfer of manufacturing to low cost jurisdictions, implementation of centralised or principal structures);
Preparation and negotiation of Advance Pricing Agreements on behalf of clients;
Assisting clients with tax audits from HMRC and transfer pricing defence strategies; and Preparation of transfer pricing documentation for planning or compliance purposes (including statistical analysis).

Essential skills

A track record of delivering quality work for clients; demonstrating an understanding of the client's business and relevant professional standards and maintaining respectful client relationships.
Proactively supporting the management of a portfolio of clients and projects including aspects of financial and risk management.
Contributing to the development of personal and team knowledge.
Experience in building internal and external relationships and networks and willingness to build on this.
An ability to plan and deliver work against tight deadlines.
An ability to acknowledge and leverage a variety of tools and resources to support your work
Developed communication skills, specifically in negotiating with and influencing others.
Proactive in knowledge and insight sharing.
A track record of providing meaningful feedback to help others improve and develop.
An ability to take advantage of new opportunities for learning, sharing new knowledge; being intellectually agile and able to think creatively.
An ability to collect and utilise current, role-relevant business and industry trend information.
A willingness to embrace new technology/ technology developments in your work.

Desirable skills

An ACA or equivalent qualification is desirable but not essentialBackground in economics and/or an MBA desirable but not essential

Tax

We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we’re one of the UK’s leading tax practices.

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