Senior Tax Manager

About the Role Senior Tax Manager within Deloitte Tax & Legal, Blantyre, Malawi. You will lead the delivery of high-quality business tax compliance and advisory services for a diverse local and multinational client portfolio, leveraging strong corporate tax, deferred tax, and accounting for income taxes expertise, and you will build and lead high-performing teams. What You'll Do

• Lead the delivery of business tax compliance and advisory engagements for a broad portfolio of clients.

• Drive client service and technical leadership, including advising on interpretation and application of tax legislation and international tax developments.

• Provide technical guidance on corporate income tax, deferred tax, withholding taxes and other direct tax matters.

• Review and approve complex corporate income tax computations, tax returns, deferred tax calculations and tax accounting positions.

• Provide technical guidance on accounting for income taxes under IFRS, including IAS 12.

• Provide robust audit support tax reviews, including deferred tax.

• Advise clients on tax-efficient business structures, reorganisations, mergers, acquisitions and other strategic transactions.

• Support clients during tax audits, investigations and tax dispute resolution processes.

• Conduct tax health checks and risk assessments and recommend practical solutions to manage tax exposures.

• Monitor legislative and regulatory developments and communicate their implications to clients and internal stakeholders.

• Manage the review of clients’ draft tax computations and preparation of tax returns for submission to Malawi Revenue Authority.

• Manage tax compliance assignments as may be requested by clients.

• Assist clients with correspondence to and from Malawi Revenue Authority and resolving arising issues timeously.

• Participate in networking events, industry forums and thought leadership initiatives.

• Collaborate across service lines to deliver integrated solutions; tailor services to add value.

• Focus on quality and ensure deliverables are produced to the firm’s standard.

• Work with partners to agree fees that reflect value and responsibilities; assist in expanding the firm’s clientele and delivering proposals and presentations.

• Any other duties as assigned by the partners.

• Tax Advisory Leadership: Provide strategic tax advice in areas including corporate tax planning and transactions, M&A, business restructurings and investment structuring; tax due diligence; tax health checks; deferred tax advisory; tax accounting; tax governance and risk management; incentives and exemptions.