About the Role
The Senior Manager Tax – MENAT will provide specialist support for VAT compliance, transformation, and risk management across GCC sites. This role will help enhance end-to-end VAT processes, improve data quality, standardize execution, strengthen controls, increase automation, and ensure accurate and timely compliance. The role will also support international tax, transfer pricing, and internal M&A matters, working collaboratively with stakeholders across Tax, Finance, Operations, Technology, Legal, Risk, and the business.
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What You’ll Do
- Lead the enhancement and transformation of VAT compliance processes across GCC sites.
- Standardize VAT processes, improve source data and reconciliations, strengthen controls, and enhance management reporting.
- Lead or support VAT regulatory and transformation projects, including e-invoicing implementation.
- Assess process, control, data, and technology requirements and support testing and business implementation.
- Monitor VAT legislation and business developments, assessing their impact on processes, systems, and controls.
- Provide practical VAT advice on new products, business initiatives, entity changes, systems, and operating-model developments.
- Manage VAT risk and support tax authority engagements, including audits, assessments, information requests, rulings, voluntary disclosures, and disputes.
- Support the remediation of VAT compliance and control issues, ensuring clear actions, ownership, and timely follow-up.
- Support international tax and transfer pricing matters, including cross-border and intercompany arrangements, permanent establishment, treaty, and withholding tax considerations.
- Provide specialist tax support for internal acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, and other M&A transactions.
- Manage relationships with external compliance partners and professional advisers, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery.
- Build effective relationships across Tax, Finance, Operations, Technology, Legal, Risk, and the business, communicating complex tax matters clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience, Knowledge, and Skills
- A graduation degree is essential for obtaining a visa and work permit. If your university certificate is from outside the UAE, up-to-date attestations and equivalency are also mandatory (Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications Issued Outside The UAE).
- A professional qualification in tax, accounting, finance, or law is required. Chartered Accountant, CPA, ACCA, CTA, or equivalent qualifications are strongly preferred.
- Significant tax experience, including deep practical expertise in VAT across GCC jurisdictions.
- Significant experience with the Big Four firms and strong tax experience within financial services, preferably banking.
- Experience engaging with tax authorities and managing VAT audits, disputes, appeals, or litigation support.
- Sound knowledge of corporate tax, transfer pricing, international tax, tax treaties, permanent establishment, withholding tax, and tax accounting.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to provide clear, practical advice to senior stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret financial, transactional, and operational data.
- Experience using technology and automation to improve tax processes, controls, and reporting.
- Good project-management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple workstreams and manage competing priorities.
- A collaborative and delivery-focused approach, with sound judgement, integrity, and the confidence to challenge constructively.
- Ability to work effectively across functions and locations in a complex, highly regulated organisation.
- Commitment to the organization's values, policies, risk-management standards, confidentiality, and information-security requirements.
Benefits
- A workplace that supports continuous professional development.
- Flexible working opportunities.
- Opportunities for growth within an inclusive and diverse environment.
