Purpose and aim of the role
The role requires an ambitious, confident individual, with a strong academic background to join the growing Corporate Tax Team as a Transfer Pricing Associate.
The successful candidate will be a member of the Team, responsible for assisting colleagues in the Transfer Pricing and Corporate Tax Teams in servicing clients, covering the complete cycle of transfer pricing advisory and compliance work.
Transfer pricing projects can involve:
- Planning and design of transfer pricing policies for all transaction types (including tangible goods, services, intellectual property and financing) covering various business operating models
- Preparation and review of transfer pricing documentation including benchmarking studies e.g. Master Files, Local Files and Country-by-Country Reporting
- Review and guidance on implementation of transfer pricing policies e.g. financial and operational testing of policies, comment on agreements prepared by legal advisors
- Review pricing of intercompany financing arrangements
- Thin capitalisation reviews
- Transfer pricing risk reviews of cross-border operations and remediation advice
- Advance Pricing Agreement and Mutual Agreement Procedure cases
- Dispute resolution with tax authorities
- Awareness of broader tax considerations of transfer pricing policies and cross-border operations e.g. withholding taxes, VAT/customs duties and permanent establishment risks
The team has an entrepreneurial culture and offers accelerated learning with high exposure to client relationships. Training and coaching will be provided to support ongoing professional development.
The team is growing and promotion opportunities will be available in the future for a successful and ambitious candidate.
Client Responsibilities
The tax team deals with a broad range of transfer pricing advisory and compliance work, emanating from a wide variety of clients.
Key responsibilities to be carried out are:
- Liaison with the wider tax team, tax audit and accounting teams and other service lines in respect of upcoming work and delivery timetable
- Management of deadlines in a timely manner in respect of client work allocation
- Responsibility for adherence with the firm’s risk management procedures and some administrative tasks
Special work/ad hoc assignments
Work may include the following:
- Tender proposals support
- Tax audit support
- Due diligence support
- Assistance in defence and resolution of tax authority enquiries
- Liaison with PKF International
- Assistance in team and firm marketing initiatives
People Management
PKF Littlejohn believes strongly in encouraging the personal development of each member of staff and the firm supports and provides internal and external training courses as well as professional updates on technical and non-technical subjects.
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