Lirize is a Partner in our Tax Advisory division with over 20 years of professional services experience. She specialises in transfer pricing, where she works closely and collaboratively with the client teams across various areas of the business, to help taxpayers proactively manage transfer pricing risk and reporting obligations.
Lirize joined Pitcher Partners as a Client Director in October 2021 and is proud to be a part of a growing and dynamic team at Pitcher Partners.
Lirize has worked in the UK, South Africa and Australia and across a wide range of sectors and business models. Lirize has also worked in industry as a secondee and consultant. This allows her to be able to understand the impacted stakeholders and their responsibilities, the business challenges and that transfer pricing needs to be managed within a larger, more complex environment.
Lirize has experience engaging with the ATO across a range of areas, including country by country reporting, advanced pricing arrangements, audits and top 100 and 1000 reviews. She has helped clients review the risk outcomes of their international related party dealings against the ATO frameworks (e.g. practical compliance guidelines) and assess their transfer pricing positions.
Whether a taxpayer is looking for an efficient and friendly compliance solution or bespoke advice on pragmatic transfer pricing solutions, Lirize brings a breadth of experience to the table including: benefit analysis and documentation for intercompany services, abc and marginal costing models, deep intercompany financing and financial services experience, reviewing the implementation of policies across systems and processes, designing transfer pricing policies to address business change, decades of economic analysis, benchmarking and business modelling to support commercially aligned outcomes.
Lirize is passionate about helping clients and believes this includes being responsive, pragmatic, easy to work with and making a specialist area easier to navigate.
Qualifications and memberships
- MBA (cum laude), University of Stellenbosch Business School – South Africa
- Bachelor of Arts with Honours (Economics), University of South Africa
- Bachelor of Arts (Politics, Philosophy, Economics and English Literature) University of Stellenbosch – South Africa
