Senior Tax Associate

About Deloitte

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Deloitte offers career opportunities across Audit & Assurance (A&A), Tax & Legal (T&L) and our Consulting services business, which is made up of Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory (SR&T) and Technology & Transformation (T&T). 

Deloitte East Africa provides seamless cross-border services to multinationals, large national enterprises, small and medium sized enterprises, and the public sector, with offices in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, and Ethiopia.

A career with Deloitte offers you the opportunity to engage with and work alongside leading corporations within the East African region, and an opportunity to start and grow your career within a dynamic and rewarding environment. You will get the support, coaching and training needed to advance your career in Uganda and within the East Africa market.

Are you ready to apply your knowledge and background to exciting new challenges? From learning to leadership, this is your chance to take your career to the next level. 

About the Department

Deloitte’s Tax and Legal professionals provide both compliance and advisory services across a broad range of matters affecting businesses. This approach ensures clients’ most demanding challenges when operating in multiple jurisdictions are holistically addressed in a coordinated way, by subject matter and industry specialists, locally and abroad. Deloitte deploys the right team at the right time to address the needs of its clients, wherever they operate.

Deloitte (Uganda) Limited currently has an exciting opportunity for two (2) dynamic people to join our Tax & Legal - Tax team as Senior Tax Associates. We are looking for innovative, agile, driven, engaging and proactive people to take our Tax business to the next level. These positions will be based in our Kampala office in Uganda.

Click here to read more about our Tax practice. 

Job Description

The incumbents will become part of a well-established team working with clients to understand, plan and execute effective commercial and tax strategies, assisting clients to respond to new legislation both in Uganda along with ongoing international tax reforms at the OECD level. As Senior Associates, you will ensure that the client and Firm’s expectations are met by delivering high quality services and maintaining high utilization levels.

What you will do

• Support on delivery of designated tax engagements/projects, and manage the implementation of agreed deliverables;
• Assist in the preparation of proposals/tenders and presentations;
• Generating innovative solutions on projects/engagements in collaboration with team members to enhance/renew service offerings to clients;
• Assist in developing knowledge of current tax matters across the tax function;
• Deliver client service according to relevant Deloitte standards, policies, and ethical principles;
• Carry out tax risk and opportunities reviews;
• Preparation of tax opinions, tax advice;
• Building and maintaining relationships with the clients and the Uganda Revenue Authority;
• Liaising with Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) on various tax cases;
• Assisting clients resolve URA audits;
• Preparing objections and appeals to URA assessments;
• Preparing tax publications for clients and writing articles on relevant tax matters;
• Actively build business relationships that generate opportunities;
• Involvement in different tax initiatives and tasks that are run from time to time in the department; and,
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned to you from time to time.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A Bachelor’s Degree (preferably 1st class or Upper 2nd class) in Taxation, Accounting, Finance, International Business Management, Law, Economics, or any other tax relevant field desired;
• Pursuing at least at level 2 or completed a recognized accounting or taxation qualification such as Certified Public Accountants (CPA), Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA), Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (ADIT), Post Graduate Diploma in Tax and Revenue Administration (PODITRA) or Certified Tax Advisor (CTA) is an added advantage;
• Minimum of three (3) years previous tax experience, ideally with international businesses in industry, tax revenue authority or a professional service firm;
• Work experience of at least two (2) years in a professional services firm or Tax Authority is an added advantage;
• Technical expertise in Tax matters;
• Good knowledge of international and national taxation principles;
• Proficiency in computer applications (Excel, Word, Power Point etc.); and
• Be a Ugandan citizen or eligible to work in Uganda.

Behavioural competencies

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal;
• Effective interpersonal, relationship building skills and proven people management;
• Strong client delivery focus;
• Be willing to work under minimal supervision and learn new skills;
• Strong desire to develop self and others;
• Adaptable and able to manage ambiguity with ease; and
• Sound problem-solving ability.

Technical Competencies

• Expert in field with sound industry and business knowledge.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications including Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Good financial knowledge.
• Sound business acumen.
• Focus on quality and risk.
• Well-developed computer user skills.

Key Performance Areas

• Strategic impact - Support the Director on delivery of designated engagement / project, managing the implementation of the agreed deliverables.
• Tax laws and rules - Develop knowledge of current tax legislation across the Global Tax and Legal function.
• Delivery excellence - Recognizes the key capabilities required to deliver a high-quality service experience to the client.
• Analytical thinking and problem solving - Collects, assimilates, and analyses data and uses standard processes and tools to help surface and support solutions for solving problems in the Tax and Legal business.
• Technology tools and solutions - Applies technology knowledge to address client business challenges.

Your role as a leader

At Deloitte we believe in the importance of leadership at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters.

Leadership Capabilities

Living our Purpose - Builds own understanding of our purpose and values; explores opportunities for impact.

Influence - Actively focuses on developing effective communication and relationship-building skills.

Performance drive - Understands expectations and demonstrates personal accountability for keeping performance on track.

Strategic direction - Understands how their daily work contributes to the priorities of the team and the business.

Talent development - Demonstrates strong commitment to personal learning and development; acts as a brand ambassador to help attract top talent.

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there is always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world.

Deloitte opens the door to a career that can cross borders virtually and physically across the African continent and globally to gain experience and access projects beyond our borders. We value difference, and embrace people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities and thinking styles.

Our purpose

Deloitte is led by a purpose: to make an impact that matters. Every day, Deloitte people are making a real impact in the places they live and work. We pride ourselves on doing not only what is good for clients, but also what is good for our people and the communities in which we live and work—always striving to be an organization that is held up as a role model of quality, integrity, and positive change. Learn more about Deloitte’s impact on the world. #Makinganimpactthatmatters

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Closing date: 10 July 2025

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