Intern / Trainee

Job Description

About PwC

PwC, a global professional services network, offers a career in Corporate Tax services. This role provides you with the opportunity to help clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their business. As a consultant, you’ll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, strategize business analysis, manage working capital, and handle profit sharing for partners. You’ll also help organizations understand pricing implications of goods and services between related parties and provide advice on tax implications of deals.

PwC’s team helps clients improve their tax function to control risk and facilitate better decision making. Your focus will be on assisting businesses with tax strategy, ensuring tax compliance, increasing post-tax profits, and providing application support to achieve the best corporate tax practices.

PwC emphasizes purpose-led and values-driven leadership at all levels. Their global leadership development framework, PwC Professional, provides a single set of expectations across lines, geographies, and career paths, ensuring transparency on the skills needed for success.

Job Description – Intern/Trainee

As an Intern/Trainee, you’ll work as part of a problem-solving team, helping to tackle complex business issues from strategy to execution. Your role includes:

Core Responsibilities:

• Participate in select phases of tax compliance engagements.
• Research tax laws, rules/regulations and analyze their application to specific situations.
• Demonstrate creative thinking and individual initiative as a team member, building solid relationships.
• Proactively seek guidance, clarification, and feedback.
• Demonstrate flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks while exercising professional skepticism.

PwC Professional Skills and Responsibilities:

• Be curious and try new things.
• Learn about PwC’s operations and value creation for clients.
• Think broadly and ask questions about data, facts, and other information.
• Support research, analysis, and problem-solving using a variety of tools and techniques.
• Produce high-quality work that adheres to professional standards.
• Stay updated on technical developments in your area of specialization.
• Handle, manipulate, and analyze data and information responsibly.
• Communicate confidently in a clear, concise, and articulate manner, both verbally and in written materials.
• Embrace diverse viewpoints and welcome opposing and conflicting ideas.
• Uphold PwC’s code of ethics and business conduct.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• Required cumulative GPA: 3.0
• Preferred: Client service intern positions are entry-level, typically for 3rd year (4-year program) or 4th year (5-year program) students.
• Preferred: Before starting full-time, meet all educational requirements to be eligible for the CPA license in the state of your office location.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

• Demonstrated success in researching and analyzing tax laws, rules, regulations, client, industry, and technical matters.
• Experience in interacting with various levels of client and firm management through written and verbal communications.
• Self-motivation and a desire to take responsibility for personal growth and career development.
• Possesses a desire to pursue a career in Tax.
• As a tax technical professional, has experience researching business and industry trends to develop a point of view for proposals.
• Exposure to automation & digitization in a professional services environment, including:
• Researching and analyzing tax laws, rules, regulations, pertinent client, industry, and technical matters.
• Interacting with various levels of client and firm management through both written and verbal communications.
• Demonstrating self-motivation and a desire to take responsibility for personal growth and career development.
• Innovating through new and existing technologies, experimenting with digitization solutions.
• Working with large, complex data sets to build models and leverage data visualization tools.