Manager Tax, Global Fiscal Policy Advisory, PwC London

A career within Corporate Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their business. You'll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners. You'll also help organisations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties, as well as providing advice on tax implications of deals.

Our team helps our clients improve their tax function to control risk and facilitate better decision making. You'll focus on helping businesses with tax strategy, ensuring tax compliance, increasing post tax profits, and providing application support to achieve the best corporate tax practices.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Manager, 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 to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Directors and above
Be involved in the financial management of clients
Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
Develop project strategies to solve complex technical challenges for our clients
Manage and deliver large projects by developing the project team, assessing engagement risks throughout, driving conclusions, and reviewing / challenging the output produced by the team
Shape and deliver projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria
Train, coach, and supervise team members
Continue to develop internal relationships and developing your PwC brand

The GFPA team supports governments and intergovernmental organisations across the spectrum of fiscal policy, providing policy advice, technical assistance and capacity building in the areas of public financial management, tax reform, and governance and transparency. .The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work on a variety of exciting projects for clients in a range of international contexts. Candidates will preferably have a Masters or PhD in a field relevant to the team's areas of expertise (public policy, economics, public finance, or similar), strong project management and interpersonal skills and an enthusiasm for creative solutions to address policy issues. The role is based with the team in London, although language skills and flexibility to travel would be an advantage. This role could be available at the Manager or Senior Manager grade, depending upon levels of knowledge and skill of the successful applicant, and support will be provided that will allow you the opportunity to develop yourself and your career whilst at PwC.

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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