Banking & Capital Markets Tax Senior Manager

PwC is a leading professional services firm, and they are seeking a Banking & Capital Markets Tax Senior Manager to help clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their business. The role involves advising clients on tax affairs, navigating complex tax environments, and leading a team to solve business issues.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Help organisations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties, as well as providing advice on tax implications of deals
• Help our Financial Services clients navigate the frequently changing and complex national and international tax environment related to stringent capital requirements, management of operational tax risks, and tax implications of investing in different jurisdictions
• Help our clients with their tax structuring while helping to address the challenges of the continuously changing tax world, both locally and globally
• Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team
• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations
• Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels
• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required
• Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism
• Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart
• Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements
• Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct

Requirements:

• Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor Degree
• Required Fields of Study: Accounting
• Minimum Years of Experience: 5 year(s)
• Certification(s) Required: CPA, Member of the Bar or other tax, technology, or finance-specific credentials may qualify for this opportunity
• Intimate knowledge of the tax issues affecting either the domestic and/or international banking industries
• Intimate knowledge of public accounting practices, internal domestic banking tax departments or internal foreign banking departments
• Comprehensive technical skills in FAS 109, FIN 48, tax provision preparation audit and review, and corporate and partnership tax compliance
• Considerable experience identifying and addressing client needs: building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships and community involvement; communicating value propositions; managing resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collections; and preparing and/or coordinating complex written and verbal materials
• Considerable experience as a team leader: supervising teams to create an atmosphere of trust; seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation; and coaching staff including providing timely meaningful written and verbal feedback
• Demonstrates success as tax technical business advisor, including developing new relationships, making introductions to sell new services and doing so with a 'One Firm' service mindset
• Preferred familiarity with a CRM system
• Lead as a business advisor, including developing new relationships, making introductions to sell new services and doing so with a 'One Firm' service mindset
• Demonstrates knowledge of automation & digitization and leads by example in a professional services environment including, but not limited to, the following areas: innovating through new and existing technologies, along with experimenting with digitization solutions
• Working with large, complex data sets to build models and leverage data visualization tools to provide insights to clients
• Utilizing digitization tools to reduce hours and optimize engagements
• Advance pricing strategy through the use of pricing tools and influence a shift to alternative fee arrangements