State and Local Tax - Indirect Tax - Manager

State And Local Indirect Tax Manager

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. In indirect tax at PwC, you will focus on value-added tax (VAT), goods and services tax (GST), sales tax and other indirect taxes. Your work will involve providing advice and guidance to clients on indirect tax planning, compliance, and strategy, helping businesses navigate complex indirect tax regulations and optimise their indirect tax positions.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member's unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

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

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold 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.

As part of the State and Local Indirect Tax team you lead the way as technology-enabled tax advisors who provide benefits through digitization, automation, and increased efficiencies. As a Manager you supervise, develop, and coach teams, manage client service accounts, and drive assigned client engagement workstreams by independently solving and analyzing complex problems to develop exceptional deliverables. You play a visible role in cultivating meaningful client relationships, inspiring your team, and navigating ambiguity, while upholding PwC's quality standards and contributing to the firm's purpose, principles, and broader business strategies.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading the way as technology-enabled tax advisors
• Supervising, developing, and coaching teams
• Managing client service accounts and driving engagement workstreams
• Solving and analyzing complex problems to develop top-quality deliverables
• Cultivating meaningful client relationships
• Inspiring team members and navigating ambiguity
• Upholding PwC's quality standards
• Contributing to the firm's purpose, principles, and business strategies

What you must have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
• 4 years of experience
• CPA, Member of the Bar or other tax, technology, or finance-specific credentials may qualify for this opportunity
• A Juris Doctorate (JD), Master of Laws (LLM), or Master's degree in Accounting or Taxation field of study will be considered in lieu of a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting.

What sets you apart:

• Juris Doctorate in Taxation preferred
• Thorough knowledge of state and local tax laws
• Proficiency in tax planning and restructuring
• Experience in audit defense and state controversy work
• Familiarity with sales and use tax implications on FAS 5
• Proficiency in tax compliance automation tools
• Client relationship management skills
• Proven leadership in supervising and coaching teams
• Knowledge of automation and digitization in tax services

Travel requirements: Up to 20%