Associate – Tax & Legal Service
A career within Tax and Legal services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their business. You’ll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners. You’ll also help organisations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties, as well as providing advice on tax implications of deals.
Our team helps our clients improve their tax function to control risk and facilitate better decision making. You’ll focus on helping businesses with tax strategy, ensuring tax compliance, increasing post tax profits, and providing application support to achieve the best corporate tax practices.
Pre Engagement
- Preparing proposal and independence clearance/ risk management procedures, i.e.:
- Preparing a new client acceptance form (if it is a new client).
- Filling out assignment acceptance form.
- Preparing Relationship Checking (if needed);
- Checking in the independence list whether the new client is a restricted/ SE restricted client.
- Preparing Authorization for Services (AFS) to get approval for performing services (if the new client is a restricted/ SE restricted client).
- Consulting with Risk Management (if needed).
- Revising the proposal and independence clearance after it has been reviewed by the superior.
- Following up the work to the superior (be aware with the status of the proposal and independence clearance).
- Liaising with their superior to ensure the proposal is sent to client after getting AFS approval.
Engagement
- Communicating with client regarding the completion of the data or documents requested and remind client about the deadline to settle or submit the payments, tax return, and objection/ appeal/ judicial review letter.
- Following up the progress of the case to the tax officer (if it is allowed by their superior) and inform the status of the case to their superior.
- Organizing documents properly before it is submitted to the tax office/ tax court/ supreme court.
- Liaising with their superior to ensure that the documents requested by the tax officer/judges submitted on time.
- Going to tax office/ tax court to submit the documents.
- Preparing tax calculation, tax return, reconciliation/ data recapitulation/ working papers, and letters, i.e.: Letter/ memo covering major technical positions of tax return, Objection/ appeal/ judicial review letter (requested by the senior), Response letter, Letter to request refund (if the tax audit/ objection/ appeal/ judicial review result is showing the tax overpayment position).
- Researching regulation.
- Reviewing data provided by the client.
- Reporting the progress of their work to the senior continuously and discussing it with the senior if there are unclear matters or issues arisen during the assignment.
- Revising the assignment after it has been reviewed by the senior (e.g. tax calculation, tax return, and working paper) or if it is requested by the senior (e.g. tax advice and draft report).
- Liaising with the seniors to ensure that the final tax calculation, final tax return, and the letter have been sent to client.
- Attending meeting with the client or the tax officer (if needed).
- Attending tax hearing session/ tax reconciliation (if needed).
- Preparing minutes of meeting.
- Filing the documents and correspondences properly.
Post Engagement
- Filing all the documents related the assignment in green file properly.
- Asking the senior to review the documents filed.
- Re-arranging the organization of documents after it has been reviewed by their superior.
- Storing the documents to filling room after getting approval from partner and manager in charge
Requirements:
- Has a minimum bachelor degree from Accounting/ Fiscal / Law with GPA minimum 3.00 out of 4.00.
- Fresh graduates or 1 year related working experience are welcome.
- Understand tax regulation.
- Good analytical skills.
- Eyes for details.
- Good team player and enjoy working collaboratively with people from variety of backgrounds.
- Good interpersonal and communication skill.
- Proficient level both in written and spoken English.
Interested? You can apply here.
Office of General Counsel
A career in the Office of General Counsel, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to be a part of the Firm’s legal department by providing dedicated legal support in the areas of Contract Management, Litigation, Counselling, and Corporate, Commercial, and other legal related matters.
As part of our team, you’ll help with researching background information related to legal issues and preparing legal documents implementations, producing, drafting contracts or legal agreements, retaining files of prepared legal documents, and coordinating requests between internal and external counsel.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 Manager/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:
- Developing new skills outside of your comfort zone.
- Acting to resolve issues the prevent the team from working effectively.
- Coaching others, recognising their strengths, and encouraging them to take ownership of their personal development.
- Analysing complex ideas or proposals and building a range of meaningful recommendations.
- Using multiple sources of information, including broader stakeholder views, to develop solutions and recommendations.
- Addressing sub-standard work or work that does not meet the Firm’s/client’s expectations.
- Using data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
- Developing a point of view on key global trends, and how they affect clients.
- Managing a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
- Simplifying complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
- Upholding the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
Requirements:
- Degree in Law. Having a practise license as lawyers is preferable.
- 15-20 years of experience as legal counsel or lawfare, with heavy experience on contract drafting/negotiation.
- Proven experience as a legal counsel in a business environment.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of corporate law and procedures.
- High degree of professional ethics and integrity.
- Sound judgement and ability to analyse situations and information
Interested? You can apply here.