Tax Summer Intern (Jun 2024)

About PwC

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) provides professional services across two segments: Trust Solutions and Consulting Solutions. Within these segments, PwC brings a range of capabilities to help organizations solve faster, solve more, and realize more value. These capabilities include cloud and digital, deals, ESG, cybersecurity and privacy, governance/boards, risk, transformation, tax services, and much more. Across PwC's global network of more than 295,000 professionals in 156 countries, PwC is committed to advancing quality in everything it does.

Your role

About the Corporate Tax Services team:

The Corporate Tax Services team helps their clients improve their tax functions to control risk and facilitate better decision-making.

As an Intern / Trainee, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.

PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Be curious and try new things.
• Learn about how PwC works as a business and adds value to 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 the relevant professional standards.
• Keep up-to-date with technical developments in the area of specialism.
• Handle, manipulate, and analyze data and information responsibly.
• Communicate confidently in a clear, concise, and articulate manner - verbally and in materials produced.
• Embrace different points of view and welcome opposing and conflicting ideas.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

An Intern’s role in PwC's core tax practice includes:

• 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 while working as a team member, building solid relationships with team members
• Proactively seek guidance, clarification, and feedback
• Demonstrate flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks while exercising professional skepticism
• You’ll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners.
• You’ll also help organizations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties, as well as provide advice on the tax implications of deals. 
• You’ll focus on helping businesses with tax strategy, ensuring tax compliance, increasing post-tax profits, and providing application support to achieve the best corporate tax practices.

Training & development 

From empowering mentorships to customized coaching, PwC supports you to help you develop your career. Meaningful relationships, a balanced workload, support for flexibility, and a sense of purpose and belonging. Each and everyone at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To achieve this PwC launches "PwC Professional" - a global leadership development framework that gives its employees a single set of expectations across business lines, geographies, and career paths. PwC provides transparency on the skills needed as individuals to be successful and progress in chosen careers, now and in the future.

Salary & benefits

The salary range for this position is: $28.00 - $53.00

You'll receive the following benefits:

• Employee discount
• Work from home
• Mental Health Care
• Sick Days
• Vacation & Paid Time Off
• Free Lunch or Snacks

Career progression

PwC is a good place for interns and graduates since the company has a supportive environment for continuous learning. If you are applying for an internship, it is guaranteed that you will get the best experience. PwC welcomes interns to participate in leadership and technical training, ‘client experience’ where interns will directly work with PwC partners, principals, and staff. The intern will also get PwC’s leadership development and PwC’s shadow experience, where the intern will get first-hand experience in managing a large management team, just like a partner or principal. While going through your internship, you will get the opportunity to build your networks.

Work-life balance

The work they engage in demands personal commitment and endurance. The team prioritizes self-care and supports each other, fostering a positive team atmosphere with elements of fun at work. Tasks entail real responsibility, coupled with flexibility and mutual respect among team members. Recognizing the importance of facing daily challenges, they provide opportunities for individuals to step away and recharge, ensuring everyone is ready for the demands of the workplace.

Culture & vibe

PwC is made up of 55,000 people of different races, ethnicities, genders, backgrounds, religions, and beliefs. But together, all employees are in one firm united by purpose and values. PwC continues to build a culture of belonging, one that moves from awareness to empathy and demonstrates inclusive leadership. But as much as learned from progress, and knows that PwC is not yet where it wants to be. As a purpose-led and values-driven organization, PwC is using its talent and its resources to be a voice for change and knows that to be a leader, PwC must continue to do better. PwC will continue to be bold, intentional, and unwavering in its commitment to transparency and accountability.  

About you

• Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree
• Required Fields of Study: Accounting
• Preferred cumulative GPA: 3.0
• Preferred major GPA: 3.0

Client service intern positions are entry-level and job seekers are traditionally either in their 3rd year of a 4 year degree program or in the 4th year of a 5 year program. Client service interns typically join during the winter/spring or summer prior to their intended graduation year.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

• Demonstrates basic abilities and/or a proven record of success in the following areas:
  • Researching and analyzing tax laws, rules and 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 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 to leverage in assisting with proposals.
• Has exposure to automation & digitization in a professional services environment including but not limited to:
  • Innovating through new and existing technologies, along with experimenting with digitization solutions; and,
  • Working with large, complex data sets to build models and leverage data visualization tools.

How to apply

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Sources

• jobs.us.pwc.com/payrange-v1-taxintern
• youtube.com
• pwccareer.com