International Trade Consultant

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in tax services focus on providing advice and guidance to clients on tax planning, compliance, and strategy. These individuals help businesses navigate complex tax regulations and optimise their tax positions. In indirect tax at PwC, you will focus value-added tax (VAT), goods and services tax (GST), sales tax and other indirect taxes. Your work will involve providing advice and guidance to clients on indirect tax planning, compliance, and strategy, helping businesses navigate complex indirect tax regulations and optimise their indirect tax positions.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isnt clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firms code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Overview

A career in our International Trade practice, within the Indirect Tax services team, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their business. Youll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners. Youll also help organisations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties, as well as help them deal with tax authority disputes and queries. Our team helps our local and multinational clients optimise cash flow and reduce risk by managing challenges related to indirect taxes, specifically customs, excise, international trade and environmental tax-related matters. Youll support our clients with all aspects of indirect taxation related to global, regional and domestic projects as well as deal and audit-related projects.

Additional information

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As an Associate in the International Trade team, youll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Assist managers and directors with customs, excise, trade and environmental tax-related projects ranging from consulting assignments to audit and due diligence assignments;
• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firms code of ethics and business conduct.

Role Summary:

Specializing in customs, excise, global trade and environmental tax, the successful candidate will in conjunction with the rest of the team assist clients with complicated issues in these areas which become crucial when a business is involved in the local manufacture, import and export of goods as well as other domestic activities.

Qualifications / Certifications required:

• A degree in any one of these areas: Taxation / International Trade / Law / Accounting / Finance

Experience required:

• No formal previous work experience
• Keen interest in International Trade / customs and excise / carbon tax

Responsibilities of role:

• Liaising with clients and colleagues to provide advice on customs, excise, international trade and environmental tax.
• Managing a range of assignments reporting to Managers/ Partners.
• Act as operational Client contact on a portfolio of clients.
• Expand professional network internally and externally.
• Management of billings, debtors and assignment budgeting.
• Compliance with risk management procedures.
• Report writing

Skill sets required:

• Analytical and solution driven
• Pro-active and committed to delivery
• Excellent time management skills
• Computer literate
• Self-motivated, pay attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and management skills
• Ability to multitask

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

April 20, 2025

Information :

• Company : PwC
• Position : International Trade Consultant
• Location : Johannesburg, Gauteng
• Country : ZA