Senior Tax Manager, Business Tax

About the Position

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic person to join our Business Tax team under the Tax & Legal Service Line as a Senior Tax Manager. This position will be based in our Blantyre office in Malawi.

Responsibilities

Client Service and Tax Technical Leadership

• Lead the delivery of business tax compliance and advisory engagements for a broad portfolio of clients.
• Drive client service and technical leadership, including advising clients on the interpretation and application of tax legislation and international tax developments.
• Provide technical advice 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.
• Ensure that additional client needs are identified and met; and tailor services provided to take account of and add value to those client’s needs.
• Focus on quality and ensure deliverables are produced to the agreed firm’s standard.
• Work with the partners to agree fees that reflect the value of services provided and responsibilities assumed, and are considered fair and reasonable by our clients.
• Assist the partners in expanding the firm’s clientele; and deliver successful written proposals & presentations.
• Any other duties as assigned by the partners from time to time.

Tax Advisory Leadership

Provide strategic tax advice in areas including, but not limited to:

• 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
• Cross-border taxation
• Transfer pricing support in collaboration with specialists
• Tax technology and process improvement initiatives

Client Relationship Management

• Develop and maintain trusted relationships with senior client executives and finance leaders.
• Act as a strategic adviser, identifying opportunities to enhance client value.
• Lead client meetings, presentations, and technical workshops.
• Manage engagement economics, budgets, profitability, and billing.
• Ensure engagements are delivered on time, within budget, and to the firm's quality standards.

Business Development

• Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships and win new business.
• Prepare proposals, tenders, and presentations.
• Participate in networking events, industry forums, and thought leadership initiatives.
• Collaborate across service lines to deliver integrated solutions.

Leadership and People Development

• Lead, coach, and mentor managers, assistant managers, and associates.
• Review work performed by engagement teams and provide constructive feedback.
• Support talent development, succession planning, and performance management.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance culture.
• Champion continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Provide on-the-job training; act as an effective mentor; conduct performance appraisals; participate in recruitment, training, and development; and delegate work to junior tax staff.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, or a related field.
• Professional qualification such as ACCA, CA, CPA, or equivalent.
• Typically 7+ years of progressive tax experience, with substantial experience in a professional services environment.
• Significant experience managing complex corporate tax compliance and advisory engagements.
• Demonstrable experience leading teams and managing client relationships.
• Experience working with multinational organisations is advantageous.
• Prior Big 4 or leading professional services experience, or MRA experience is preferred.
• Strong technical capabilities.

Nice to Have

• Sound knowledge of the taxation system in Malawi.
• Communication, organisational, and team player skills.
• Strategic thinking and commercial acumen.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Executive presence and influencing skills.
• Strong project management capability.
• High ethical standards.
• Ability to manage multiple complex engagements simultaneously.
• Resilience under pressure.
• Commitment to developing others.
• Delivery against Key Performance Indicators.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance culture.

We Offer

• Competitive and performance-driven remuneration package.
• Highly energized team environment.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Global and local career growth opportunities.
• Inclusive and diverse workplace.

About the Company

At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, and society. This is the lens for which our global strategy is set. It unites Deloitte professionals across geographies, businesses, and skills. It makes us better at what we do and how we do it. It enables us to deliver on our promises to stakeholders, while creating the lasting impact we seek.

Harnessing the talent of 450,000+ people located across more than 150 countries and territories, our size and scale puts us in a unique position to help change the world for the better-by bringing together the services we provide, the societal investments we make, and the collaborations we advance through our ecosystems.

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).

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 Tax & Legal is a globally integrated network of professionals providing multidisciplinary tax compliance, advisory, and legal services. Operating in over 150 countries, the firm helps multinational corporations, startups, and high-net-worth individuals navigate complex cross-border regulations and digital transformation.

Why join us?

Joining our Tax & Legal practice provides the opportunity to work with leading global organisations across diverse industries while solving complex business challenges. You will collaborate with highly skilled professionals across the globe, contribute to innovative tax solutions, develop future leaders, and play a meaningful role in shaping the tax landscape in Malawi.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious tax professional seeking to combine technical excellence with leadership, business development, and strategic advisory in a dynamic and collaborative environment. The opportunity offers excellent progression pathways and competitive compensation.

Your role as a leader

At Deloitte, we believe in the importance of leadership at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters.

Leadership Capabilities

• Living our Purpose: Acts as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values, and recognizing others for the impact they make.
• Influence: Influences clients, teams, and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people.
• Performance drive: Delivers exceptional client service; maximizes results and drives high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders.
• Strategic direction: Understands key objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligns people to objectives, and sets priorities and direction.
• Talent development: Develops high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities.

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there is always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world.

Deloitte opens the door to a career that can cross borders virtually and physically across the African continent and globally to gain experience and access projects beyond our borders. We value differences, and embrace people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and thinking styles.

Our purpose

Deloitte is led by a purpose: to make an impact that matters. Every day, Deloitte people are making a real impact in the places they live and work. We pride ourselves on doing not only what is good for clients, but also what is good for our people and the communities in which we live and work-always striving to be an organization that is held up as a role model of quality, integrity, and positive change. Learn more about Deloitte’s impact on the world.

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If you meet the above requirements, please visit our website and apply online: Deloitte East Africa Careers portal.

To the successful candidates, the Firm will offer a competitive and performance-driven remuneration package, a highly energized team environment comprising individuals who are committed to working as one, producing results, and enjoying it.

Please ensure your updated resume and academic certificates (University and High school) are attached for your application to be considered.

Your details will be treated with confidentiality and will not be shared with any third party.

Closing date: Wednesday, 15 July 2026

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not ask individuals to pay any fees or money as part of the recruitment process. Women and Persons with Disabilities are encouraged to apply.

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work-in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

We actively support the inclusion of people with disabilities and embrace neurodiversity in the workplace. We recognise and value the unique strengths that neurodivergent individuals bring, and we are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive.

If you require reasonable accommodations in relation to your disability and neurodiverse needs during the recruitment process, please let us know. We are happy to make adjustments to suit your individual needs.

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