Manager - Tax (Penang Regional Office)

• →Manage a portfolio of clients across corporate tax compliance and advisory, ensuring quality and timely delivery.
• →Review tax computations, tax returns, tax provisions and other tax-related deliverables.
• →Build strong client relationships and act as a key point of contact for tax matters.
• →Liaise with tax authorities on queries, assessments and other tax matters, where required.
• →Stay up to date with changes in Malaysian tax laws and regulations and advise clients on potential implications.
• →Lead engagements, including planning, timelines, work allocation and deliverables.
• →Coach and develop junior team members, providing technical guidance and constructive feedback.
• →Collaborate with Partners, Directors and other teams to deliver solutions that meet clients’ business needs.

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.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related field and/or professional qualification.
• 5-7 years of experience in corporate tax compliance.
• Strong knowledge of Malaysian corporate tax laws and regulations.
• Experience managing client engagements and developing junior team members.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and project management skills.
• Excellent client relationship, stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Good commercial awareness with the ability to identify client and business opportunities.
• Proactive, organised and able to manage multiple engagements and deadlines.