Job Description
**Job Summary:** As an Associate on the Corporate Tax Compliance team, you will support the Directors, Managers, Senior Associates and a wider team with the ongoing operation and coordination of Corporate Tax Compliance projects.
We are Ireland's leading tax practice, with over 650+ tax professionals around the country. Our approach embraces many aspects of tax solutions from ideas to implementation across a range of tax services.
The role is located at our Kilkenny office and there would be a requirement to work from the Kilkenny office thrice a week. As an Associate, you will assist in the day to day running of the projects and be responsible for coaching and supporting a team with an emphasis on ensuring high quality tax compliance services.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Work on challenging, varied and complex corporation tax computations, with excellent opportunities to work on higher complexity cases across a variety of sectors and industries.
- Prepare VAT compliance and assist with the first stage review of some VAT returns.
- Helping to implement and coordinate an efficient, cost effective model based on optimal resource scheduling and process efficiency that exploits current technologies to maximum potential.
- Assist with training for new joiners and members of the specialists team.
- Work collaboratively with client engagement leads across the PwC Ireland tax practice to deliver tax compliance services.
- Helping to manage client relationships, interactions with clients and resolving queries and managing expectations.
- Embrace the digital transformation being undertaken in our business. Be motivated to familiarise yourself with these evolutions and proactively use these technologies further in our day-to-day business and that of our clients.
- Have an active role in identifying training needs and utilising our digital tools to provide upskilling opportunities.
- Operate effectively with your internal team members to create a collaborative working environment, drive improvements in upstream and downstream processes.
- Bring tax technical and business knowledge, innovation and insight to create value for clients and the firm.
- Be part of and contribute to the fun working environment offered by PwC and act as an advocate to promote our learning culture.
- Reporting to a team of experienced senior team members.
**Development of Your Own Career:**
Our high performing team can provide you with exciting projects, meaningful client interactions and the support to develop your career. With sustained levels of growth in our tax practice, you will have an excellent opportunity to progress, specialise and travel.
**About You:**
- 2.5+ years of relevant tax experience.
- Excels in their attention to detail and reviewing the work of others.
- Relationship management - ability to read situations and modify behaviour to build quality, diverse relationships with both internal stakeholders and clients.
- Proactive and solutions focused mindset with ability to drive a portfolio.
- Innovative - demonstrate an ability to contribute to new ideas and propose innovative solutions to problems.
- Leadership – demonstrate strong commitment and experience to developing yourself, your team members, your clients and your business.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Enthusiastic team player with a passion to coach and encourage others to achieve their potential.
- Ambitious – demonstrate strong commitment to personal learning and development.