• People Advisory Services (PAS) shapes and delivers the part of business strategy that depends on people. As a PAS professional, you will have the opportunity to work with global clients to understand and address some of their largest and most complex people-related challenges, and ultimately improve and drive valuable and sustainable business results. We focus on engagements that relate to performance, talent, systems, reward, mobility and analytics.
• With so many offerings, you have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. Sound interesting? Well this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing a portfolio of clients including understanding the client expectations
• Grow and develop existing client portfolio – with a focus on identifying opportunities for other business units and wider Mobility services.
• Identify potential new clients and overall growth of the Johannesburg employees’ tax and expatriate tax business.
• Develop and build good client relationships
• Financial portfolio management including WIP management, billing and cash collection
• Research, read and interpret applicable legislation in order to appropriately draft advice to clients on various employees’ tax and expatriate tax issues
• Ensuring compliance with our risk management procedures
• Overseeing the tax compliance process on your portfolio of clients where necessary, review work performed by junior staff and provide on the job training
• Generate work by capitalising on client relationships and identifying sales opportunities
• Contribute effectively towards the department’s growth and profitability
• Promote and live the team values
• Present technical training topics
• Performance manager to allocated staff

Qualifications & Experience

• Higher Diploma in Tax or Honours in Taxation
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a senior manager in the employees’ tax and expatriate tax consulting environment
• 5 years management experience in an advisory environment
• Expatriate tax compliance experience advantageous

Skills and Behavioural Attributes

• A high standard of client management skills. Excellent interpersonal skills. Independent thinker. Good report writing ability.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Computer literate: a good working knowledge of Word and Excel.
• Able to manage and oversee a team, including development of individual team members
• Manage and oversee client deliverables deadlines.
• Presentation skills
• Motivated and driven
• Ability to work on your own, a team player.
• Ideally this candidate will, in addition to deep technical skills in the area of employees’ and expatriate taxes, have energy, enthusiasm and drive to grow their career and become a future leader of our business.