Senior Associate of Tax Audit

As a Senior Associate in Tax Audit at PwC, you will provide advice and guidance to clients on tax planning, compliance, and strategy, with a focus on local tax matters. This involves analyzing and interpreting local tax laws, assisting businesses with compliance, and optimizing their tax positions. You will build strong client relationships, manage and inspire teams, develop technical expertise, and deliver quality service while navigating complex and ambiguous situations.

Must Have

• Effectively respond to diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Utilize a wide 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, improve strengths, and address areas of development.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Maintain and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g., PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's Code of Conduct, and Independence requirements.

Good to Have

• Accepting Feedback
• Active Listening
• Analytical Thinking
• Communication
• Creativity
• Embracing Change
• Emotional Regulation
• Empathy
• Inclusion
• Intellectual Curiosity
• Learning Agility
• Local Taxes
• Multistate Tax Compliance
• Optimism
• Partnership Tax
• Payroll Tax Efficiency Reviews
• Reverse Audits
• Self-Awareness
• Taxes
• Tax Legislation
• Tax Litigations
• Tax Policy
• Tax Provisions
• Teamwork

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.

Those in local taxes at PwC will focus on providing advice and guidance to clients on local tax matters. Your work will involve analysing and interpreting local tax laws and regulations, assisting businesses in complying with local tax requirements and optimising their local tax positions.

Focused on relationships, you will be building meaningful connections with clients and learning to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you will be developing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise, and becoming aware of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Integrating growing ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward is unclear, asking questions and using these moments as opportunities to grow.

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

• Effectively respond to diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Utilize a wide 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, improve strengths, and address areas of development.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Maintain and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g., refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's Code of Conduct, and Independence requirements.