Financial Services - Transfer Pricing Associate

A career in our Financial Services Tax practice, within Corporate Tax 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 Financial Services clients navigate the frequently changing and complex national and international tax environment related to stringent capital requirements, management of operational tax risks, and tax implications of investing in different jurisdictions. You'll help our clients with their tax structuring while helping to address the challenges of the continuously changing tax world, both locally and globally.
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As an Associate, you'll work as part of the Financial Services (FS) Transfer Pricing (TP) team based in London and help to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this level include but are not limited to:
Develop new skills outside of your comfort zone.
Use feedback and reflection to develop your self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas
Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, and coach to help deliver r esults
Learn about clients' businesses and how they operate in the industry/ marketplace
Gather information from a range of sources when analysing and solving complex problems
Contribute to client account planning
Test your own and others' work for quality, accuracy and relevance
Draw on the firm's subject matter experts to support your work facilitate collaboration across virtual teams (utilising appropriate technologies when necessary)
Communicate with clients, regularly updating them and sharing progress
Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner - verbally and in written form
In your day to day role you'll have the opportunity to:
Act as go-to contact with the client, responding to TP related issues and questions.
Communicate with colleagues on when they can expect to receive back work and effectively project manage compliance and consulting tasks.
Lead catch ups with colleagues to run through clients. Commit to dates by which projects will progress
Set and discuss realistic timelines when delegating work - when is it needed to be done by? What is the consequence (if any) of it being later than this?
Explain relevant client positions and reconciling notices or letters
Complete initial reviews and assist with preparation of TP documents
Ensuring information from the client, all relevant emails and financial documents are saved, referenced and reported correctly
Ensure TP calculations and reporting clearly demonstrate thought process proactively flag anything that needs further attention from the M/SM. Noting and explaining a client's ultimate position. Research, make and propose decisions on how things will be reported and explain reasoning.
Assist in training, be this through supporting on a training sessions or identifying topics/areas that the team need training on
Review proposed bills
Proactively helping colleagues to promote healthy work environment
Take a role in the team outside of client work - e.g. assisting with overall training program, working on technology for the team (e.g. AI), BD for team in terms of raising profile internally and externally
Key Skills and Experience:
FS TP Knowledge
Student working experience of working with FS TP Clients would be beneficial but not essential
ACA/CTA or ATT qualification preferable
Enrolled Agency qualification would be b eneficial but not essential.