Intern / Trainee

Job Description

About PwC’s Corporate Tax Services

PwC’s Corporate Tax Services team focuses on helping clients meet their tax obligations while strategically managing the impact of tax on their business. They offer a range of services, including:

• Tax Compliance: Advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations.
• Tax Strategy: Develop and implement tax strategies to optimize tax outcomes and minimize tax liabilities.
• Business Analysis: Provide strategic consulting on business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners.
• Pricing Implications: Help organizations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties.
• Deal Structuring: Provide advice on tax implications of deals, ensuring tax efficiency and minimizing potential risks.

The team aims to improve clients’ tax function to control risk and facilitate better decision-making. They focus on helping businesses achieve the best corporate tax practices by:

• Developing tax strategies
• Ensuring tax compliance
• Increasing post-tax profits
• Providing application support

Intern / Trainee Role in PwC’s Corporate Tax Practice

As an Intern / Trainee, you will be part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues. You will gain valuable experience in the following areas:

• Tax Compliance Engagements: Participate in select phases of tax compliance engagements.
• Tax Research: Research tax laws, rules/regulations, and analyze their application to specific situations.
• Teamwork & Relationship Building: Demonstrate creative thinking and individual initiative while working as a team member, building solid relationships with team members.
• Proactive Learning: Proactively seek guidance, clarification, and feedback.
• Prioritization & Task Management: Demonstrate flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks while exercising professional skepticism.

Job Requirements and Preferences

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor’s Degree
• Required Fields of Study: Accounting
• Required Cumulative GPA: 3.0
• Minimum Years of Experience: 0 year(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Additional Educational Preferences: Client service intern positions are entry-level, ideal for students in their 3rd year of a 4-year degree program or in the 4th year of a 5-year program. Internships are typically during the winter/spring or summer prior to graduation.
• Certification(s) Preferred: Before starting full-time, meet all educational requirements for the relevant practice area, such as the 150 credit hour requirement for the CPA license.
• Preferred Knowledge/Skills:
• Demonstrates basic abilities in researching and analyzing tax laws, rules and regulations, pertinent client, industry, and technical matters.
• Interacts with various levels of client and firm management through both written and verbal communications.
• Demonstrates self-motivation and a desire for personal growth and career development.
• Possesses a desire to pursue a career in Tax.
• Has experience researching business and industry trends to develop a point of view for assisting with proposals.
• Has exposure to automation & digitization in a professional services environment.

PwC Professional

To ensure individuals are purpose-led and values-driven leaders, PwC has a global leadership development framework called PwC Professional. This framework provides a single set of expectations and outlines skills needed for career progression. As an Intern / Trainee, you will learn about and contribute to:

• Curiosity & Experimentation: Be curious and try new things.
• Business Understanding & Value Creation: Learn how PwC works and adds value to clients.
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving: Think broadly and ask questions about data, facts, and other information. Support research, analysis, and problem solving.
• Quality & Professional Standards: Produce high quality work that adheres to relevant professional standards.
• Technical Development: Keep up-to-date with technical developments in your area of specialism.
• Data Handling & Analysis: Handle, manipulate, and analyze data and information responsibly.
• Communication: Communicate confidently, clearly, and concisely – verbally and in written materials.
• Diversity of Thought & Inclusion: Embrace different points of view and welcome opposing and conflicting ideas.
• Ethics & Business Conduct: Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.