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About Deloitte Tax & Legal 

We have a team of approximately 280 professional staff members across South Africa comprised of qualified charted accountants and lawyers who offer specialist insight across many industries.   Deloitte Tax professionals keep current on the latest changes that impact clients' business tax strategy, enabling clients to focus on business objectives while we address the tax requirements.   Deloitte Legal, amongst the largest legal and regulatory service providers in Africa, assists clients operating in increasingly complex legal, regulatory and digital environments through a multidisciplinary approach, combining integrated legal and commercial expertise. 

Main Purpose of Job

To support the Indirect Tax Associate Director in providing professional and robust tax and legal advice on all local and international tax matters and more specifically VAT. Focus on the management and delivery of client engagements, as well as sales and practice development. Develop high-performing people and teams, leading and supporting them to make an impact that matters, and setting the direction to deliver exceptional client service.

Specialized Technical Capabilities

Compliance Planning

• Implements processes and identifies sustainable planning opportunities to help clients mitigate risk, meet compliance obligations and statutory deadlines, and realize business goals
• Translate VAT laws and knowledge into specific actions and procedures with clients
• Effectively implements new actions and procedures with clients in line with VAT laws
• Displays knowledge of domestic compliance requirements
• Displays knowledge of automated solutions supporting VAT compliance. Uses relevant automated solutions

Consultancy and Compliance

• Helps clients mitigate risk, meet compliance obligations and statutory deadlines, and realize business goals by completing processes and identifying sustainable planning opportunities
• Assists client to complete timely and accurate tax and financial filings/compliance activities in order to meet obligations
• Designs, proposes, and works with clients to implement planning strategies that are consistent with clients’ strategic goals

VAT laws

• Demonstrates and applies knowledge of current and proposed VAT laws, their implications and understands the various interaction of customs and global trade laws with non-customs and global trade disciplines
• Identifies risks and issues and proposes solutions
• Builds knowledge of VAT laws, rulings, guides and interpretation notes

Products to Market

• Identifies and develops opportunities to grow the business without compromising quality and integrity
• Seeks opportunities to market products/services developed within global VAT
• Seeks opportunities to standardize products/services and bring to global VAT
• Positions global VAT products/services within industry and integrated service offering. Positions products and services developed by industry service offering

Tax Authority Relationship Management

•  Understands the rights and obligations of taxpayers and tax authorities, current areas of focus of local authorities, and Deloitte's position in response to authorities and client
• Analyzes tax laws to uncover implications on taxpayers and communicates implications to clients
• Defines taxpayer protocols and duties by researching taxpayer and tax authority roles and responsibilities/obligations

Tax Transaction Rules

• Demonstrates VAT subject matter specialty, understands applicable laws, management, and obligations, and can apply professional and industry guidance to advise clients
• Researches and analyzes VAT to provide tax guidance to clients
• Facilitates team understanding of VAT to enable effective knowledge sharing and application among staff
• Works closely with clients and Deloitte team to understand a company’s goals and strategies and applies knowledge of VAT to bolster the company’s goals and strategies

Leadership / Behavioural Capabilities

Living our Purpose - Acts as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values, and recognizing others for the impact they make

Influence - Influences clients, teams, and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people

Performance drive - Delivers exceptional client service; maximizes results and drives high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders

Strategic Direction - Understands key objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligns people to objectives and sets priorities and direction

Talent Development - Develops high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities 

*Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.

Qualifications & Experience

Required

B Com or LLB qualification

Post graduate qualification in Tax (Masters in Taxation)

Advanced course in VAT

5 – 6 years working experience in professional services