Job Description

Our tax practice revolves around helping our clients effectively manage their tax obligations proactively and responsibly. As part of a global team of 35,000 tax professionals in 150 countries, you will advise clients on planning, compliance and reporting wherever the client has needs. Our unwavering commitment to quality service and our technical networks enable you to help clients reduce inefficiencies, mitigate risk and improve opportunities within their tax functions. Groups (or, as we call them - sub-service lines) within Tax include Business Tax Services, Global Compliance and Reporting, Indirect Tax Services, International Tax Services, People Advisory Services and Transaction Tax Services.

People Advisory Services (PAS) shapes and delivers the part of business strategy that depends on people. As a PAS professional, you will have the opportunity to work with global clients to understand and address some of their largest and most complex people-related challenges, and ultimately improve and drive valuable and sustainable business results. We focus on engagements that relate to high net-worth individuals (including their trusts and privately held companies), personal and international tax structuring, performance, talent, systems, reward, mobility and analytics.

With so many offerings, you have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning. That's how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. Sound interesting? Well this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in key client relationships to provide advice and support the client in their personal and international tax function
• Drafting opinions relating to high net-worth individuals, personal tax, employees' tax, international tax matters and exchange control matters, specific to local South African and cross border matters
• Assist with payroll reviews at multinational clients focussing on employees' tax compliance as well as other payroll compliance matters, i.e., UIF, SDL and Compensation Fund and drafting of reports setting out findings and recommendations
• Assist the transaction tax team with due diligence reviews and drafting of reports setting out findings and recommendations
• Assist the expatriate tax compliance team with complex tax issues relating to cross-border assignments.
• Assist partner and senior manager in managing a portfolio of clients including understanding the client expectations
• Assist in identifying new business opportunities - with a focus on identifying opportunities for other business units and wider international tax and personal tax planning services.
• Identify potential new clients and overall growth of the national high net-worth individuals, personal, employees' tax and international tax structuring business.
• Assist partner and senior manager with financial portfolio management including WIP management, billing and cash collection
• Research, read and interpret applicable legislation in order to appropriately draft advice to clients on various personal, employees' tax and international tax issues
• Promote and live the team values
• Present technical training topics

Qualifications & Experience

• Tax attorney with preferably one or two years in a tax consulting environment.

Skills and Behavioural Attributes

• Excellent interpersonal skills. Independent thinker.
• Good report writing ability.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Computer literate: a good working knowledge of Word and Excel and Powerpoint
• Good analytical skills
• Manage and oversee client deliverables deadlines.
• Presentation skills
• Motivated and driven
• Ability to work on your own, a team player.
• Ideally this candidate will, in addition to technical skills in the area of personal and international taxes, have energy, enthusiasm and drive to grow a long-term career in our business.

Who we are:

At EY we support you in achieving your unique potential both personally and professionally. We give you stretching and rewarding experiences that keep you motivated, working in an atmosphere of integrity and teaming with some of the world's most successful companies. And while we encourage you to take personal responsibility for your career, we support you in your professional development in every way we can. You enjoy the flexibility to devote time to what matters to you, in your business and personal lives. At EY you can be who you are and express your point of view, energy and enthusiasm, wherever you are in the world. It's how you make a difference.

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