Tax Services - Manager

Job description / Role

Purpose: To provide a wide range of corporate tax advisory services to a large portfolio of clients. Managing the client and their expectations whilst providing strong and clear management in terms of service/product delivery, risk management and financial aspects of tax engagements

Main Responsibilities:

Tax
- Answer tax related questions and understand highly complex tax related problems.
- Conduct confidential relations with clients, tax authorities and auditors.
- Effectively manage relationships with the relevant local & foreign tax authorities.
- Explain tax requirements in the context of the provision of tax advice.
- Interpret the complete spectrum of local tax laws.
- Make complex recommendations regarding tax solutions.
- Manage the administration of tax matters on behalf of clients, including tax compliance procedures.
- Manage the maintenance of essential tax records, reports & files.
- Effectively manage tax assignments, tax team, deliverables, risk and financial aspects of various tax assignments.
- Prepare clear, sound, accurate reports containing tax opinions, findings, conclusions & recommendations.
- Ensuring that the engagement is compliant with firm-wide risk management procedures.

Management
- Providing leadership and direction to designated team.
- Mentoring and guiding junior employees.
- Providing feedback on performance of the tax team to senior management.
- Supervising and coaching junior members of staff to help them realize their full potential.
- Keeping managers and partners up to date with the progress of your team

Client Management
- Acting as a first choice point of contact for clients and managing project costs, raising fees and agreeing dates for cash collection.
- Building strong relationships with clients and actively engage in business development initiatives, including preparing for and presenting tax seminars, training and lectures.
- Drafting key documents, opinions, advices and presentations and presenting to clients.
- Keeping up to date with firm’s product and service offerings and identifying the sales opportunities that will help us grow our audit / tax / advisory work.
- Building the reputation of firm through quality of work, knowledge and experience

Tax
- High level of attention to detail.
- Able to understand and interpret tax regulations and laws.
- Able to pick up things quickly.
- Capable of processing large volumes of information.
- Able to take a commercial view on advice.
- Highly analytical.

Communication
- Fluent in English, written and verbal.
- Arabic an advantage
- Able to clearly communicate in a concise manner.
- Able to confidently present.
- Proven ability of good listening skills.
- Able to provide honest and constructive feedback.

Interpersonal
- Confident and friendly approach.
- Excellent team playing ability.
- Ambitious.
- Hardworking.
- Diligent.
- Prepared to work the hours required of the role.
- Flexible and adaptable.
- Sustain a high level of drive.
- Demonstrate enthusiasm and a positive attitude when coping with pressure at work.
- Continuously learn from experiences.
- Seek out feedback and development opportunities.

Management
- Able to manage and motivate teams.
- Capable of setting clear team objectives and ensuring they are achieved.
- Able to set out in depth tax plans.
- Capable of supporting and mentoring junior staff.
- Capable of taking full responsibility for own and teams work.
- Able to manage in a motivational and respectful way.

Requirements

- Graduate with a GPA of 2.5 / 4 or above, preferably in an Accounting, Finance or Law related degree.
- 5 to 7 Years relevant work experience.
- Qualified Accountant or Tax Lawyer

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.