PricewaterhouseCoopers

Job Description & Summary

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.

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 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:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

The successful candidate will:

• Manage the assigned client portfolio, monitor effectiveness of the project team;
• Implement and monitor the strategic plan of the Tax Advisory practice development;
• Advise PwC Clients from different industries on various tax related issues, develop tax optimization structures;
• Advise PwC Clients on necessary restructuring and solutions on resolving tax issues;
• Assist PwC Clients during audits conducted by the tax authorities;
• Assist PwC Clients during claiming of tax incentives under double tax treaties;
• Lead the key Tax Advisory and Tax due diligence projects;
• Participate in Transfer Pricing projects;
• Lead Tax review projects and drafting the relevant reports at the end of the project;
• Perform Business Development and market analysis;
• Carry out full research on specific tax matters;
• Prepare Tax opinion memos based on the relevant legislation;
• Review and present final deliverables to clients;
• Prepare fee analysis and estimates upon Manager’s request.

What we are looking for:

• A graduate degree with major in Tax, Finance & Accounting, Economics, or Law;
• A degree from an international university would be an advantage;
• Minimum 3 years of experience in tax consulting, finance or law (work in Consulting or Law firms as an advantage);
• Knowledge of Tax legislation of Azerbaijan Republic and the rules of International Taxation;
• Strong command of spoken and written Azerbaijani and English (Russian or any other languages would be an advantage);
• Strong knowledge of general accounting principles;
• Excellent business writing skills;
• Proficient knowledge of MS Office programs;
• Strong analytical and problem structuring skills;
• Willingness to undertake new and challenging tasks;
• Strong communication, team working skills and motivation for personal development.