Transfer Pricing - Senior Manager, PwC London

A career 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 is responsible for all aspects of intercompany pricing arrangements between related business entities, including transfers of intellectual property, transfers of tangible goods, services and loans, and other financing transactions.

Responsibilities

As a Manager, 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

Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above
Be involved in the financial management of clients
Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges
Assist in the management and delivering of large projects
Train, coach, and supervise staff
Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand

The role includes

Day-to- day responsibility for managing and leading project work and on-going client relationships, winning and developing work across all aspects of transfer pricing and value chain transformation.
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.
Participation in the leadership and development of the existing Transfer Pricing team
Undertaking transfer pricing planning and pricing implementation.
Building business through targeting (internal and external).
Involvement and coordination of European and global transfer pricing engagements working with specialists across our global network
Supporting companies through all elements of business change and value chain transformation (e.g. transfer of manufacturing to low cost jurisdictions, implementation of centralised or principal structures),
Preparation and negotiation of Advance Pricing Agreements on behalf of clients;
Assisting clients with tax audits from HMRC and transfer pricing defence strategies; and preparation of transfer pricing documentation for planning or compliance purposes (including statistical analysis)

The following skills are required for this role

It is expected that the successful candidate will have extensive experience of advising multinational clients on transfer pricing.
Wider experience of other corporate tax or related international issues would also be an advantage. In particular, we are looking for

Essential skills

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
Proven experience of 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
Contributing to the development of personal and team knowledge.
An effective delegator, strong at coaching staff
Extensive experience in building business through targeting (internal and external).
Experience in building internal and external relationships and networks.
An ability to plan and deliver work against tight deadlines.
Developed communication skills, specifically in negotiating with and influencing others.
A track record of providing meaningful feedback to help others improve and develop.
An ability to take advantage of new opportunities for learning, sharing new knowledge; being intellectually agile and able to think creatively.
A demonstrated ability to collect and utilise current, role-relevant business and industry trend information.
An ability to promptly address problems and maintain professional standards.

Desirable skills

An ACA or equivalent qualification is desirable but not essential
Background in economics and/or an MBA desirable but not essential

Tax

We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we’re one of the UK’s leading tax practices.

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