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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 

• To support the team in providing quality service to clients and other stakeholders on employment tax and personal tax matters relating to global employee long term equity and cash incentive plans, related employment tax withholding calculations, data collation to perform the calculations and reviews of employee incentive plan guides(hereinafter referred to as “employee incentive engagements”).
• To understand clients’ needs and offer excellent client service and solutions to meet these needs
• To focus on the efficient project management and delivery of employee incentive engagements/projects and will be responsible for delivering on a number of engagements/projects simultaneously
• To collaborate effectively with all internal and external stakeholders for the benefit of clients and Deloitte
• Researching employment tax issues in South Africa on employee incentive engagements
• Working with colleagues in the Deloitte global network to deliver to multi-national clients
• Identifies and embraces our purpose and values and puts these into practice in their professional life.

Differentiators

• Researching and preparing opinions/SARS letters/client deliverables/ employee incentive calculations on employee incentive engagements by applying personal tax and employment tax laws and where relevant, using applicable Deloitte technology
• Corresponding with the South African Revenue Service on clients’ tax affairs
• Build network with other employee incentive professionals across Deloitte member firms

Technical

• Sound knowledge of the tax laws governing personal tax and employment tax matters relating to equity employee incentive engagements as contained in the South African Income Tax.
• Proficient in MS Office suite (specifically, MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint)
• MS Visio and SAP S/4Hana experience advantageous

Behavioural

• Positive attitude: Contribute actively and positively to the team culture
• Ability to deal with sensitive information in a confidential manner
• Excellent data collation, administrative and MS Excel skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent organisational skills
• Good numerical skills and aptitude
• Good analytical and tax research skills
• Ability to work under pressure, multi-task and adhere to deadlines is critical
• Basic technology skills will be an advantage.
• Good report writing skills will be an advantage.
• Good interpersonal skill

B Com/BCom (Law) or equivalent qualification  

• 2 - 4 years’ experience as a specialist in providing personal tax compliance and/or advisory services in a client-facing role.
• Sound knowledge of the tax laws governing personal tax and employment tax matters relating to employee incentive engagements as contained in the South African Income Tax Act.
• Excellent data collation, administrative and MS Excel skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent client engagement and management experience
• Excellent numerical skills and aptitude
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and tax technical research skills
• Ability to work under pressure, multi-task and adhere to deadlines is critical

In addition, the following skills will be an advantage:

• Good technology skills
• Good report writing skills
• Practical insight into the SARS e-Filing directive system
• MS Visio and SAP S/4Hana experience
• Experience in employment tax matters relating to employee incentive plans will be an advantage

What Impact Will You Make?

Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration, and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you will find unrivalled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential.

How You Will Grow

At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there is always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs at Deloitte University, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career. Explore Deloitte University Leadership Centre. https://deloitte.zoomforth.com/du

 Benefits

At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits.

Our Purpose

Deloitte is led by a purpose: To make an impact that matters. Every day, Deloitte people are making a real impact in the places they live and work. We pride ourselves in doing not only what is good for clients, but also what is good for our people and the communities in which we live and work—always striving to be an organization that is held up as a role model of quality, integrity, and positive change. Learn more about Deloitte’s impact.  https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/impact-that-matters.html

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