Tax Compliance & Accounting Consultant

About the role

PwC's tax services team advises clients on tax planning, compliance and strategy, and its tax compliance consultants validate clients' compliance with tax laws and regulations by reviewing financial data, preparing and filing tax returns and helping businesses meet their obligations while reducing non-compliance risk. The Tax Compliance and Accounting team is expanding, and is looking for a hands-on consultant who can manage several workstreams in parallel, deliver accurate compliance and accounting work and communicate with clients and authorities.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare tax computations and returns and carry out first-level reviews of supporting data and workpapers, including CIT, VAT, withholding tax, reverse-charge VAT, property and land taxes and other statutory filings.
• Perform bookkeeping and period-end accounting, including journal entries, general-ledger review, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, intercompany balances, and bank and balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Prepare statutory and management reporting packs, tax-account reconciliations, schedules, working papers and audit-ready documentation.
• Support new-client set-up and transition, including process mapping, opening-balance review, chart-of-accounts mapping, reporting calendars, data templates and control checklists.
• Coordinate with client finance teams, internal specialists and delivery-centre colleagues, review delegated work and give clear, timely feedback.
• Prepare correspondence for tax-authority queries, notices, reconciliations and audits, and take part in meetings when required.
• Assist with external and internal audits, due diligence, tax reviews and ad hoc advisory assignments.
• Use digital tools to improve standardisation, data quality, controls and efficiency while meeting PwC quality and risk requirements.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Taxation or a related field.
• At least 2 years of relevant experience in tax compliance, accounting or outsourced finance; professional-services experience strongly preferred.
• Practical knowledge of Azerbaijan tax legislation and statutory reporting, with the ability to research and apply changes accurately.
• Fluency in written and spoken Azerbaijani and English; Russian and/or Turkish is an advantage.
• Strong ownership, attention to detail, professional scepticism and ability to prioritise competing deadlines.

Required skills

• Solid grounding in bookkeeping, double-entry accounting, financial statements and IFRS; experience with tax-to-account reconciliations preferred.
• Hands-on experience with accounting or ERP systems; knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Navision, SAP, Oracle, 1C or similar is an advantage.
• ACCA, CIMA, CPA, PMS or equivalent qualification is an advantage.