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Deloitte offers career opportunities across Audit & Assurance (A&A), Tax & Legal (T&L) and our Consulting services business, which is made up of Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory (SR&T) and Technology & Transformation (T&T).

Deloitte East Africa provides seamless cross-border services to multinationals, large national enterprises, small and medium sized enterprises, and the public sector, across three (3) countries in the region: Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

A career with Deloitte offers you the opportunity to engage with and work alongside leading corporations within the East African region, and an opportunity to start and grow your career within a dynamic and rewarding environment. You will get the support, coaching and training needed to advance your career in Uganda and within the East Africa market.

Are you ready to apply your knowledge and background to exciting new challenges? From learning to leadership, this is your chance to take your career to the next level.

About the Department

Deloitte’s Tax and Legal professionals provide both compliance and advisory services across a broad range of matters affecting businesses. This approach ensures clients’ most demanding challenges when operating in multiple jurisdictions are holistically addressed in a coordinated way, by subject matter and industry specialists, locally and abroad. Deloitte deploys the right team at the right time to address the needs of its clients, wherever they operate.

Deloitte (Uganda) Limited currently has an exciting opportunity for one (1) dynamic person to join our Tax & Legal - Tax team as a Tax Consultant. We are looking for an innovative, agile, driven, engaging and proactive individual to take our Tax business to the next level. The position will be based in our Kampala office in Uganda.

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Job Description

Main purpose of the job

The incumbent will become part of a well-established team working with clients to understand, plan and execute effective commercial and tax strategies, assisting clients to respond to new legislation both in Uganda along with ongoing international tax reforms at the OECD level. As a Consultant you will provide a comprehensive range of services, from strategic tax advisory projects and corporate transactions, to assisting clients with their evolving compliance and reporting obligations. You will be empowered to take responsibility for your own portfolio of clients, allowing you to take ownership of your workload, whilst delivering great service to a variety of businesses across different industries.

What you will do

• Build trusted client relationships with finance and tax leaders across a portfolio of organisations.
• Act as the main contact for your client portfolio - building deep trusted client relationships and being responsible for quality, delivery and all aspects of client service on the engagement;
• Use your knowledge of your clients' businesses to help bring tax advisory solutions as well as taking a lead role in delivering these advisory projects and/or managing input from specialist Deloitte teams as required;
• Raise issues with the Manager as identified in area of focus that may affect the quality of delivery or timelines of the engagement;
• Actively build business relationships that generate business prospects Identify opportunities for follow-on work and work with management to win new business;
• Assist in development of client presentations/discussion documentation;
• Gather information to understand broader offerings of Deloitte and seek opportunities for cross-selling;
• Raise solutions to address issues in area of expertise that may enhance/renew service offerings to client;
• Work on the tax audits of clients, identifying and resolving material tax technical issues and reviewing the accuracy of tax reporting;
• Maintain quality and timeous delivery as per Service Level Agreement (SLA);
• Provide initial recommendations of current tax legislation across the Global Tax and Legal function to Manager level practitioners;
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the key capabilities required to deliver a high-quality service experience to the client;
• Deal with URA on technical matters;
• Select appropriate methods for collecting and analyzing data, and develop informed recommendations that shape or support the client’s business strategy;
• Mentor more junior members of the team and play an active role in their development;
• Apply technology knowledge to address client business challenges; and
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned to you from time to time.

Note: The list of tasks/duties and responsibilities contained in this document is not necessarily exhaustive. Deloitte may ask the employee to carry out additional duties or responsibilities, which may fall reasonably within the ambit of the role profile, depending on operational requirements.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Taxation, Accounting, Finance, International Business Management, Law, Economics or any other tax relevant field desired;
• A recognized accounting or taxation qualification such as Certified Public Accountants (CPA), Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (ADIT), is an added advantage;
• Minimum of four (4) years previous tax experience, ideally with international businesses in industry, tax revenue or a professional service firm.
• Proficiency in computer applications (Excel, Word, Power Point etc.); and
• Be a Ugandan citizen or eligible to work in Uganda.

Key Performance Areas

• Strategic Impact – Support the Engagement Manager in delivery of engagement / project, in specific area of competency, raise issues with manager as identified in area of focus that may affect the quality of delivery or timelines of the engagement, Identify opportunities for follow-on work and work with management to win the business, assist in development of client presentations / discussion documentation, actively build business relationships that generate leads, gather information to understand broader offerings of Deloitte and seek opportunities for cross-selling, raise solutions to address issues in area of expertise that may enhance/renew service offerings to client.
• Budgets / Profitability - Maintain quality and timeous delivery as per Service Level Agreement.
• Tax laws and rules - Provides initial recommendations of current tax legislation across the Global Tax and Legal function to Manager level practitioners
• Delivery excellence - Demonstrates advanced knowledge of the key capabilities required to deliver a high-quality service experience to the client
• Analytical thinking and problem solving - Selects appropriate methods for collecting and analyzing data, and develops informed recommendations that shape or support the client’s business strategy
• Technology tools and solutions - Applies technology knowledge to address client business challenges

Behavioural competencies

• Communication (oral and written).
• Inte

• Build trusted client relationships with finance and tax leaders across a portfolio of organisations.
• Act as the main contact for your client portfolio - building deep trusted client relationships and being responsible for quality, delivery and all aspects of client service on the engagement;
• Use your knowledge of your clients' businesses to help bring tax advisory solutions as well as taking a lead role in delivering these advisory projects and/or managing input from specialist Deloitte teams as required;
• Raise issues with the Manager as identified in area of focus that may affect the quality of delivery or timelines of the engagement;
• Actively build business relationships that generate business prospects Identify opportunities for follow-on work and work with management to win new business;
• Assist in development of client presentations/discussion documentation;
• Gather information to understand broader offerings of Deloitte and seek opportunities for cross-selling;
• Raise solutions to address issues in area of expertise that may enhance/renew service offerings to client;
• Work on the tax audits of clients, identifying and resolving material tax technical issues and reviewing the accuracy of tax reporting;
• Maintain quality and timeous delivery as per Service Level Agreement (SLA);
• Provide initial recommendations of current tax legislation across the Global Tax and Legal function to Manager level practitioners;
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the key capabilities required to deliver a high-quality service experience to the client;
• Deal with URA on technical matters;
• Select appropriate methods for collecting and analyzing data, and develop informed recommendations that shape or support the client’s business strategy;
• Mentor more junior members of the team and play an active role in their development;
• Apply technology knowledge to address client business challenges; and
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned to you from time to time.

• Proficiency in computer applications (Excel, Word, Power Point etc.)
• Communication (oral and written)

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Taxation, Accounting, Finance, International Business Management, Law, Economics or any other tax relevant field desired;
• A recognized accounting or taxation qualification such as Certified Public Accountants (CPA), Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (ADIT), is an added advantage;
• Minimum of four (4) years previous tax experience, ideally with international businesses in industry, tax revenue or a professional service firm.
• Proficiency in computer applications (Excel, Word, Power Point etc.); and
• Be a Ugandan citizen or eligible to work in Uganda.