Tax Transformation And Technology - Senior Manager

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Management Level
Senior Manager
Job Description & Summary
The Innovation Team is at the core of innovation and emerging technology development, discovery, deployment and support activity. Our team is leading the effort to digitally enable our business. Our mission is to develop disruptive & innovative technologies and products that drive the evolution of how we deliver our services now and in the future. The key technology domains we are currently focused on include business process automation, data curation, industrialized analytics, machine learning & AI and scalable delivery platform.
A career in our Tax Technology Innovation practice, within Innovation services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients' tax departments redesign, redefine, and redeploy tax to be a strategic asset across the enterprise. You'll focus on assisting clients incorporate increased automation in the tax reporting process, increase analytic capabilities through data integration, and create solid internal controls that will enable the Tax function to deliver better quality output and contribute more strategically to organisational decision making.
Our team develops complex software capabilities leveraging the latest in technology to meet today's hard business problems. You'll focus on providing highly customisable platforms across the tax practice through research, development, and integration to build adaptable enterprise capabilities. It's our mission to identify, apply and drive innovation through the application of ground-breaking and unique technologies to set PwC apart from the competition.
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 a Senior Manager, you'll 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:
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.
The role
PwC South Africa is expanding of tax technologists within the Tax Transformation and Technology business to reflect the growing demand for tax technology related services across our client portfolio. The role will focus on enabling our clients to transform their business processes through effective use of tax technology, ERP Cloud implementations and tax process automation.
This is an external client facing role advising PwC clients on digital tax transformation strategy and initiatives for South African and multinational companies, covering all elements of the tax function, automating the tax compliance and reporting processes for direct and indirect taxes, and enabling real time reporting of taxes in our clients' ERP solutions. The candidate will focus on creating value not only in tax but in the wider organisation by transforming tax functions through optimising tax strategy, governance, organisational design, people, and process, underpinned and enabled by technology and data.
Key Responsibilities
The role reports into an Associate Director and key responsibilities will include:
? Evaluate tax function business models, processes and operations to develop tax technology roadmaps to address business challenges and requirements.
? Advising PwC clients on digital tax transformation strategy and initiatives for South African and multinational companies, covering all elements of the tax function, automating the compliance and reporting processes for direct and indirect taxes, and enabling real time reporting of taxes in the ERP.
? Analyse and evaluate tax business requirements and translates into tax and functional requirements and specifications, providing insights on ERP system and technical components to incorporate into the technical design
? Analyse reports and assessments to provide insights on whether a solution/technology being implemented is meeting overall business but specifically Tax and IT requirements
? Interacting and leveraging the firm's Alliance partners to deliver on client opportunities. Stay updated with local and international tax laws and regulations. Ensure ERP Tax Ledger configurations comply with these regulations, for both direct and indirect taxes.
? Embedding and sustaining tax data quality standards in business systems to enhance tax processes, operations and effectiveness, enhancing tax governance and control through content management solutions, workflow technologies and document management.
? Stakeholder management and business partnering - build strong relationships with our Advisory business, project stakeholders and senior stakeholders within the business across different functions like finance, accounting, and IT to address any tax-related challenges.
Your Professional Experience
Tax Transformation and Technology - Senior Manager
? Design of tax technologies to automate tax reporting and compliance processes, including automated e-filing solutions.
? Proven experience working with ERP Tax Ledger for the design and implementation of tax compliance and reporting in ERP systems.
? Proven experience gathering and interpreting tax function requirements.
? Ability to manage the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business-driven approach taken.
? Build valuable relationships both within PwC and with client stakeholders, proactively contributing to winning new work/clients.
? Ensure work delivery of the highest quality.
? Project and programme management skills: project planning, project documentation drafting and maintenance of these; resource and team co-ordination; identification, management and escalation of risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies; budget management; and stakeholder status reporting.
? Interest in understanding and developing knowledge of ERP software (e.g. SAP, Oracle), Robotic Process Automation solutions, and GenAI.
? Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams, and fast-paced project environments
? Experience of working effectively with risk within a complex change portfolio
? Experience of change management technical expertise
? Experience and ability of leading teams (small or large)
? Excellent communication skills
Qualifications
? Have a university degree
? Previous experience working in a tax technology role (previous role in tax technology will
be advantageous)
? Experience in the development and/or implementation of tax elements in ERP solutions
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No
Job Posting End Date
November 23, 2024


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