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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.

Support engagement Manager and/or Partner/Director in delivery of services to clients on delegated engagement/project. In your role as an Assistant Manager in the Business Tax Team, you may:

• Perform tax specialist accrual reviews as part of external audit/review engagements with a focus on current tax and deferred tax.
• Prepare and/or review income tax computations for inclusion in the annual financial statements of clients.
• Prepare and/or review income tax return submissions, including related return submissions (e.g. provisional tax return/responses to South African Revenue Service (SARS) verification letters/etc submissions) and supporting documentation.
• Assist clients with responses to SARS tax queries as may be required from time to time.
• Liaise with SARS as may be required on various client tax matters.
• Assist with providing tax support to local taxpayers and multinationals in a variety of jurisdictions. The tax support may include providing tax opinions, tax compliance support, managing multi-jurisdictional projects, and advising clients on local and international tax developments that may affect their businesses
• Assist with the development of a sales pipeline, the drafting of engagement proposals, the performance of risk management procedures and the financial management of the assignments
• Work closely with a highly skilled and motivated national team under the close guidance of more senior staff members.
• Assist with providing internal technical tax training on a rotational basis.
• Assist with providing input into the tax implications of a variety of transactions, both local and cross-border, including typical merger and acquisition transactions such as group reorganisations, unbundling transactions, BEE transactions and tax efficient acquisitions and disposals of shares or businesses
• Assist with providing local and cross-border tax due diligence reviews and tax structuring and advisory engagements, working regularly with other Deloitte firms on cross-border engagements
• Support engagement Manager in delivery of services to clients on delegated engagement / project.

Core Professional Technical Capabilities:

• Strategic Impact - Supports the implementation of strategy of the Service Line / Business Area in relation to specific area of expertise
• Budgets / Profitability - Manages margins effectively through accurate budgeting,  pricing and profitability management on engagements
• Tax Laws and Rules - Leads client projects and solves complex technical/business issues through innovative approaches while providing direction to others
• Delivery Excellence - Takes ultimate responsibility to meet project objectives within established budget and timeline, optimizing project profitability
• Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Facilitates innovative solutions to client problems and drives changes to processes or ways of working based on new trends/recent developments
• Technology Tools and Solutions - Demonstrates advanced knowledge of service line or market specific technology solutions

Behavioural Capabilities:

• Competitive Edge - Applies deep knowledge of disruptive trends and competitor activity to drive continuous improvement
• Living our Purpose - Acts as a role model and inspires others to embrace and live our purpose and values
• Influence - Builds deep relationships across a diverse network and uses a flexible influencing style to gain buy-in and drive impact
• Performance Drive - Creates opportunities to drive impact; anticipates client needs and delivers superior results by leveraging each person’s strengths to build high performing teams across businesses and borders
• Strategic Direction – Translates broader strategy into a compelling team vision and goals; aligns the team and sets priorities to achieve objectives
• Talent Development - Actively contributes to building the talent pipeline; creates a talent experience that attracts, develops and retains top talent and high performing teams

Inspirational Leadership - Establishes a strong leadership brand and inspires followership through passion, integrity, and appreciation of others

Qualifications & Experience Required:

• CA (SA) or B Com (LLB)
• 3 years’ working experience

Preferred:

• Postgraduate qualification in Taxation (Masters in Taxation)
• 3 years working experience in a related role
• 3 years’ experience in a client facing role

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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