PricewaterhouseCoopers

Line of Service

Tax

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

General Tax Consulting

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

A career within Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet and manage their tax obligations across unique but ever changing tax specialties. You’ll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing indirect taxes, dispute resolution, and global enterprise tax solutions.

Our team helps our clients identify and reduce tax risks, meet compliance obligations, implement tax strategies that complement business and operational objectives, resolve disagreements with tax authorities, and manage tax accounting and reporting issues. You’ll be engaged in projects dealing with International tax, mergers and acquisitions, state and local tax accounting, regulatory processes, tax reporting and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Able to manage multiple small projects simultaneously, ensuring timely and successful delivery.
• Develop detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation.
• Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables, ensuring clear understanding of client needs and requirements.
• Track project progress against established timelines and milestones, ensuring timely delivery of project deliverables, while monitoring budget and resource utilization.
• Identify and mitigate project risks and issues, proactively addressing any challenges to project success.
• Able to facilitate effective communication and coordination between clients, team members, and stakeholders, while attending to both business and technical considerations. 
• Primary point of contact for clients, establishing and maintaining strong relationships.
• Regularly provide status and risk updates to manage client expectations. 
• Solicit and incorporate client feedback into the project planning and execution process to ensure client satisfaction.
• Experience in managing API development and integration projects.
• Working collaboratively in a dynamic, ambiguous environment with multiple competing priorities to ensure project objectives are met.
• Liaise with all levels of staff within the team and user communities.
• Able to provide guidance, support, and feedback to juniors, ensuring the project scope is completed with high quality, on schedule and within budget.
• (if Manager) Experience leading and motivating a cross-functional team while fostering a productive and collaborative work environment.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Manager/Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Develop new skills outside of comfort zone.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
• Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
• Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Requirements

• Recognized University Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or related discipline.
• 3-5 years of proven working experience as an Agile Project Manager, preferably in a software development or API-focused environment.
• Project management, communication and analytical skills.
• Team player with good interpersonal and problem-solving abilities.
• Passionate about learning new things and learning together with the team.
• Results oriented with an agile mindset.
• Able to communicate effectively in verbal and written English language with confidence.

Added advantage

• Strong understanding and practical experience implementing Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) and related tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jira, Trello).
• Can facilitate and participate in Agile ceremonies, including backlog prioritization, sprint planning, tracking burn-down/velocity, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Possess certifications in Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).

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Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

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