Senior Associate - Transfer Pricing

Line of Service

Tax

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Transfer Pricing

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Transfer Pricing Tax Compliance practice, within Transfer Pricing services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients develop compliant, tax efficient structures that help advance their business goals. You’ll focus on all aspects of documentation planning, dispute resolution, and advance pricing agreements.

Our team helps our clients identify and analyse priorities and develop policies to provide guidance and detailed advice. You’ll help our clients coordinate their worldwide transfer pricing policies to help define their business requirements and develop appropriate tax strategies.

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of complex TP concepts and effectively apply economic/financial knowledge to client situations

• Proactively managing a portfolio of clients and projects including all aspects of financial and risk management

• Working with clients and helping them to manage their transfer pricing risk

• Analyze information. Prepare quality, practical approaches to the client's economic situation and arrive at logical conclusions

• Develop and deliver quality transfer pricing and economic ideas with timely and responsive services / work products

• Prepare documentation, participate in advanced pricing agreements (APAs), defend transfer pricing in audits, work in the valuation of intangible assets; and develop quality, practical planning services

• Identify and pursue transfer pricing opportunities with the aim to get new engagements

• Assist in the work of client service team members

• Participation in developing recommendations and implementation plans

• Contribute to attaining team goals

• Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Managers and above

• Establish effective working relationships directly with clients

• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen

• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues

• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients 

• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand

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 Associate, 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:

• 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 firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Preferred skills

• Recognized university degree and/or professional accounting qualification

• Strong business technical knowledge with at least 2 years’ experience in tax consultancy, ideally in a professional services organization

• Knowledge of managing functional analyses interviews to identify and assess client's inter-company transactions

• A track record of delivering quality work for clients; demonstrating an understanding of the client's business and relevant professional standards and maintaining respectful client relationships

• A track record of providing meaningful feedback to help others improve and develop

• Experience in leading teams; respecting and valuing all people and encouraging different perspectives

• An ability to take advantage of new opportunities for learning, sharing new knowledge; being intellectually agile and able to think creatively.

• Contributing to the development of personal and team knowledge

• Assist in business development and marketing – through networking and obtaining referrals, and using your awareness of broader corporate tax issues to cross sell the firms other services

• A demonstrated ability to collect and utilize current, role-relevant business and industry trend information.

• An ability to promptly address problems and maintain professional standards

• Possess good spoken and written skills

Additional application instructions

Please attach following documents along with your CV when you submit an online application:

• Certificates and transcripts, from SPM (or equivalent) onwards

• A copy of your NRIC or passport

• Recent passport size photo

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required: Bachelor Degree

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

Yes

Job Posting End Date