Senior Associate - Tax - Surabaya (Talent Pool)

& Summary

A career within Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet and manage their tax obligations across unique but ever changing tax specialties. You’ll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing indirect taxes, dispute resolution, and global enterprise tax solutions.

Our team helps our clients identify and reduce tax risks, meet compliance obligations, implement tax strategies that complement business and operational objectives, resolve disagreements with tax authorities, and manage tax accounting and reporting issues. You’ll be engaged in projects dealing with International tax, mergers and acquisitions, state and local tax accounting, regulatory processes, tax reporting and strategy.

Pre Engagement

• Preparing risk management procedures, i.e. new client questionnaire, CES checking, assignment acceptance, relationship check, umbrella agreement, and confirmation of engagement. (This preparation can be delegated to associate).
• Helping manager in scoping, both scope of work and scope of exclusion.
• Reviewing associate/ junior team member’s work.
• Managing workload between senior associate’s workload and associate/ junior team member’s workload.
• Estimating fee for doing the project, e.g. fee for each team members, etc.
• Preparing data template, i.e. power of attorney and assignment letter (for tax dispute only).
• Participating in the discussion with the team about the big picture of the project.
• Reporting to the manager in order to be reviewed by the manager.
• Organizing timeline.
• Revising (if needed).
• Preparing data request.

Engagement

• Briefing associate/ junior team member about the tasks that will be delegated, e.g. make cover letter, research regulation, collect or complete all the documents that are needed, make recapitulation and reconciliation, etc.
• Updating the rest of team members on progress or issues encountered.
• Preparing the supporting document that will be submitted to the tax office (for tax dispute only).
• Reporting to the manager in order to be reviewed by the manager.
• Making report which contains calculation, supporting document, tax impact, and key issue.
• Participating in meeting with client to make minutes of meeting (MOM).
• Monitoring timeline and work progress.
• Submitting tax return to the tax office (for compliance only).
• Monitoring provision of data from client.
• Preparing tax return (for compliance only), response letter, caveat, and appeal letter (for tax dispute only) or sometimes these tasks are delegated to the associate.
• Analyzing tax issue based on tax, law, and finance side in order to prepare draft comments in report (for tax advisory only).
• Participating in the discussion with tax office to support manager about the documents (for tax dispute only).
• Mentoring and monitoring associate/ junior team member in doing the tasks.
• Participating in closing conference (for tax dispute only).
• Reviewing work done by the associate/ junior team member, e.g. calculation, wording, regulation, etc.
• Identifying tax issue in order to prepare memo in report.
• Discussing or sharing information with ABAS (for audit support only) and FAS (for due diligence only).
• Monitoring provision of data from target company (for due diligence only).
• Discussing with the manager about the tax issues.
• Research regulation and other support data (for tax advisory only).
• Revising report (if needed).
• Reviewing or assessing the document or sampling (if the deadline is tight).

Post Engagement

• Organizing documents that will be filed.
• Compiling data with other line of service, i.e. ABAS (for audit support only) and FAS (for due diligence and tax advisory). develop internal relationships and your PwC brand
• Monitoring filing and cross-referencing.
• Preparing billing description, i.e. compiling timesheet, counting recovery in percentage, and making invoice.
• Delegating filing task to associate.

Job Requirements :

• Good team player and enjoy working collaboratively with people from variety of backgrounds.
• Eyes for details.
• Understand tax regulation.
• Has a minimum bachelor degree from Accounting/ Fiscal with GPA minimum 3.00 out of 4.00.
• Proficient level both in written and spoken English.
• 3 – 5 years related working experience.
• Good analytical skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skill.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred: Bachelor Degree - Accounting and Taxation, Bachelor Degree - Law, Bachelor Degree - Finance, Bachelor Degree - Accounting