Assistant Manager

Your key responsibilities

You will combine strong technical skills with practical commercial, legislative and industry knowledge to lead a team in providing tax services. You will be responsible for a team to help manage our clients compliance and reporting needs. You will establish, maintain and strengthen valued internal and external relationships and ensure that the services delivered to clients is of the highest quality.

You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of client engagements, monitor progress and deliverables, put in place the necessary standardized processes, anticipate and identify risks, escalate issues as appropriate and drive performance-improvement solutions.

You will supervise high performing teams and build a positive learning culture, coaching and counseling junior team members to help them develop. You will also be responsible for ensuring adherence to our Tax Quality guidelines.

Skills and attributes for success

If you are an excellent communicator and detail-oriented professional with a strong track record of management experience who is comfortable working across borders with a wide network of people and with large amounts of data, you will be perfect for the role.

To qualify for the role you must have

1. A bachelor's degree with strong academic credentials in accounting, business, finance, taxation or any related essential fields.
2. MBA, Masters or another related advanced degree and/or professional qualifications e.g. CA, CPA, ACCA, CTA, ADIT or equivalent qualification.
3. A very strong knowledge and minimum 4 years of experience in domestic and international tax rules/regulations, developments etc., ideally within a large professional services company or similar environment.
4. A very strong background in UAE corporate tax, tax accounting (CH2 TARAS work), UAE corporate tax compliance and tax auditing, ideally within a large professional services company or similar environment.
5. A strong track record of managerial, organizational and project management experience.

Ideally, you will also have

1. Experience of dealing with multinational clients and ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
2. In-depth commercial, legislative and industry knowledge.

What we look for

Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident team player that collaborates with people from various teams while looking to develop your career in a dynamic organization.