Tax & Compliance Manager
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Job Description
The Manager, Tax & Compliance role is responsible for managing all financial and commercial compliance matters for the Middle East entities (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, and Riyadh). In doing so, the role will work closely with Partners and Account teams, Global Tax, as well as Finance Managers across offices. The role ensures all stakeholders understand and fulfil the compliance obligations within their roles, ensuring adequate processes and controls are in place, mitigating risk.
Business Taxation
Contract Type: FULL_TIME
Specialism: Accountancy & Finance
Focus: Tax
Industry: Consultancy
Salary: Negotiable
Workplace Type: On-site
Experience Level: Mid Management
Location: Dubai FULL_TIME
Job Reference: EP64CV-C4573012
Date posted: 28 March 2025
Consultant: Charmaine Hilado dubai accountancy-finance/tax 2025-03-28 2025-05-27 consultancy Dubai Dubai AE Robert Walters https://www.robertwalters.ae https://www.robertwalters.ae/content/dam/robert-walters/global/images/logos/web-logos/square-logo.png true
Business Taxation
- Prepare Corporation Tax returns for the Company, work with Global Tax and the designated professional advisors in all aspects.
- Review and submit quarterly VAT and WHT (withholding taxes) returns, ensure correct SAP posting.
- Submit payments to ZATCA/FTA/QFC, ensure SAP posting.
- Initial point of contact for any tax authorities queries on tax matters, including VAT and WHT tax audits, liaising with Global Tax team as appropriate.
- Responsible for issuing tax withholding certificates to other entities.
- Review of annual WHT submission to ZATCA.
- Responsible for calculating and posting the quarterly professional fees cross charges across the ME entities.
- Main point of contact for the Global Tax team for all business taxes and transfer pricing, including, but not limited to, preparation of the annual corporation tax provision workbook, tax receipts reconciliation, tax provisions and true up, intercompany workings.
- Main point of contact for the ME Finance team for all Business Tax matters.
- Assist Director with any requirements regarding de/registration for VAT, CIT, and other regulatory taxation changes.
- Actively support Director, ME Finance Managers, and Global Accounting on relevant SAP related matters, such as the capitalisation of intercompany balances, application of post audit entries, profit centre alignment.
- Identify and implement improvements to current processes, working closely with Finance Managers and Director, particularly as new tax initiatives may have a reporting consequence.
- Responsible for the Financial Statements statutory reporting for the ME entities
- Lead the statutory financial statements audits and be the main point of contact to the auditors and the ME Finance team, specifically ensuring alignment with the Accounting and Revenue Managers, on achieving set audit timelines.
- Identify roadblocks during the FS audits and inform line manager promptly, perform FS audit postmortems to identify process improvement.
- Perform regular review of balance sheet account reconciliations, ensuring no items could impact financial reporting and that actions are addressed on a timely basis, responsible for all tax and compliance accruals, and VAT/WHT/Tax account reconciliations.
- Responsible for the Local Content (LC in KSA), In Country Value (ICV) scores and audits, providing stakeholders guidance on score, LC post completions audits and process improvement.
- Perform yearly entity LC audit and assist the Revenue Manager with Contract LC reporting.
- Support Partners and Account teams on Contract specific Local Content, advising on ways to improve score and providing guidance and recommendations on proposals
- Submit yearly Economic Substance Notification/ Reporting for the UAE entities.
- Support Accounting Manager with the Statistics of Economic Activity (UAE).
- Ensure ITKVA reporting in KSA.
Contract Type: FULL_TIME
Specialism: Accountancy & Finance
Focus: Tax
Industry: Consultancy
Salary: Negotiable
Workplace Type: On-site
Experience Level: Mid Management
Location: Dubai FULL_TIME
Job Reference: EP64CV-C4573012
Date posted: 28 March 2025
Consultant: Charmaine Hilado dubai accountancy-finance/tax 2025-03-28 2025-05-27 consultancy Dubai Dubai AE Robert Walters https://www.robertwalters.ae https://www.robertwalters.ae/content/dam/robert-walters/global/images/logos/web-logos/square-logo.png true
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Job IdJD1839318
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IndustryNot mentioned
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Total Positions1
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Job Type:Full Time
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Salary:Not mentioned
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Employment StatusPermanent
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Job LocationDubai, United Arab Emirates
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EducationNot mentioned