IFS - Finance - Firm Tax Manager - Governance & Risk

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ref: HP639-1865

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Line of Service
Internal Firm Services

Specialism
IFS - Finance

Management Level
Manager

Job Description & Summary
A career in Finance, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to help PwC in all aspects of our Finance internal function including financial planning and reporting, data analysis, and assisting leadership with overall strategy. You'll focus on recording and analysing financial transactions, paying and receiving invoices, maintaining financial statement ledger accounts, and preparing analysis and reconciliations of bills to detect fraud.

Our Internal Tax team provides internal services related to financial services, treasury and taxation. As part of our team, you'll help the team provide a full range of taxation services to PwC related to complex financial reporting, cost management, tax planning, investment management and transaction processing.

The Firm Tax team is a part of the PwC Middle East Group's OneFinance function.  The team supports on all levels of the firm's tax activity and is organized into three (3) subfunctions: Compliance & Audit; Governance & Risk; and Legal & Advisory.  This role is intended to support the Governance & Risk subfunction.

The ME Tax Governance & Risk Manager's role is comprised of the following:

- Manage the ME Group's compliance requirements as relates to ME and non-ME governance & risk matters;
- Manage the monthly tax provision process for the ME Group, including oversight of tax balances and costs;
- Prepare the ME Group's periodic tax reporting requirements;
- Escalate material risk or compliance issues to the ME Tax Governance & Risk Subfunction Leader &/or Firm Tax Leader;
- Contribute to tax optimisation projects;
- Contribute to upholding the tax governance of the ME Group in accordance with the Tax Code of Conduct; 
- Contribute to managing and mitigating tax risks of the ME Group in accordance with the Tax Code of Conduct; and 
- Supervise and provide guidance to junior members of the team.

Primary duties and responsibilities

- Manage the ME Group's tax governance & risk based compliance process, including:
- Prepare the ME Group's tax compliance and regulatory reporting documentation, including:
- Country by Country Reporting (CbCR);
- Economic Substance Reporting (ESR);
- United States compliance & reporting (FATCA, annual returns, WFP requirements);
- Other non-ME compliance & regulatory requirements;
- DAC6;
- Transfer Pricing.
- Prepare the monthly tax provision calculations for the ME Group and actively manage tax balances and costs including providing value add insight into balances and costs;
- Prepare the ME Group's monthly tax reports including insight into KPIs, balances and costs across all taxes;
- Provide support on the audit requirements of the ME Group including tax aspects of external statutory audits as well as managing Tax Authority audits (all taxes) with relevant local jurisdictions;
- Provide guidance and support on tax governance & risk projects such as automation requirements, costing validations, tax effectiveness and efficiency improvements;
- Provide guidance and support on tax optimisation and tax savings projects;
- Provide guidance and support in managing tax compliance risks across the ME Group, escalating to the subfunction lead &/or ME Firm Tax Leader where material;
- Provide guidance to and supervision of junior members of the team and facilitate country tax specialist support where applicable;
- Ensure submission deadlines are adhered to.
- Work with the sub function lead and ME Firm Tax Leader and other relevant business stakeholders to develop and implement tax efficient structuring of company operations across the ME Group, ensuring local (country specific) laws are adhered to.
- Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and solve complex tax challenges.
- Refine tax policy and procedure documentation and ensure proper implementation and adherence across the ME Group.
- Develop strong working relationships and interface with all stakeholders across the ME Group.
- Conduct internal tax related training across the ME Group.
- Be actively involved in and a positive influence on team recruiting, development, training and retention.

Requirements

Knowledge, skills, and abilities

- BA/BS in finance or accounting; CPA, Chartered Accountant or equivalent preferred.
- Fluent in Arabic and English.
- Minimum 5 years work experience in taxation, preferably with a professional services firm (Big 4), with an exposure to the ME region taxation, and with supervisory experience and strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to relate to many levels of management.
- Excellent communication skills in order to communicate effectively internally and externally (with auditors, tax advisors, lawyers etc.).
- Time management skills and ability to meet taxation deadlines and resolve urgent issues with auditors.
- Consulting skills in order to analyze reports, draw conclusions and make recommendations.
- Project management skills.
- Excellent leadership skills and ability to manage a team.
- High level of understanding across a broad range of tax related matters including compliance and corporate tax optimization.
- High level of analytical and quantitative ability required to perform complex financial structuring and accounting and ad hoc reporting functions, including proficiency with computer-based modelling and analytic techniques.

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.

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