Corporate Tax Manager

About BDO

BDO UAE provides audit and assurance, advisory, tax and business outsourcing services to companies across all sectors of the economy.

As one of the world’s leading audit and accounting organizations, we have clients of all types and sizes, from large corporate organizations to private businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals across various industry sectors.

From a global beginning in 1963 with five firms, today BDO extends across 166 countries and territories, with 115,661 people working out of 1,776 offices.

This role will be to provide variety of corporate tax advisory and compliance services to clients. Your primary responsibility will be corporate tax advisory and compliance however you will be expected to be part of cross-functional business development and project management.

Basic knowledge of the UAE VAT, Transfer Pricing and Pillar 2.0 are preferred but not mandatory.

• Advanced business development skills, preferably in large accounting firm including managing pursuit list, follow-ups, initial presentations
• Excellent ability to cater to multiple requests either internally and externally with clients and member firms
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced technical knowledge of mature CT jurisdictions, preferably hands on practical experience of delivering in high performance teams on advisory, compliance, litigation or similar
• Advance knowledge of audit independence conflict protocols/procedures
• Advance experience of working with on-site and off-site support teams
• Advance ability to multitasking and cater to multiple requests either internal and/or external simultaneously
• Advance project management skills such as preparing and monitoring work progress trackers, responsibility matrix, scheduling status update calls, closure procedures
• Advance ability to train and develop a team to support on advisory, structuring, compliances etc.
• Advance skills to schedule and conduct technical sessions
• Advance skills to identify opportunities in the market
• Advance skills of establishing, retaining, and managing client relationships
• Intermediate knowledge of basic transfer pricing concepts and associated service offering
• Intermediate knowledge of legal / regulatory requirements in the UAE such as licensing requirements, permissible operations in the free zones
• Basic knowledge of FATCA/CRS, CbCR, OECD Pillar 1.0 and 2.0
• Basic knowledge of customs and VAT in the GCC region

• Having minimum of 6 plus years of post-qualification experience in a large accounting firm having multi-jurisdictional presence
• Knowledge of UAE and international Corporate Tax
• Good command of written and spoken English. Arabic would be a value-add.
• ACA, ACCA, CTA, ADIT or equivalent professional qualification along with basic graduation in accounting.

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Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Consulting

Accounting

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