Indirect Tax Director

Job description / Role

As an Indirect Tax Director, it is our expectation that you will be able to maintain our high-quality tax services to a range of clients across a broad range of sectors. You will be surrounded by a team with a deep tax knowledge and equipped with the required tools to deliver best quality. This role will offer you an excellent opportunity for continued career progression. As part of your role you will be expected to conclude the below roles and responsibilities and have the following skills:

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Develop the team skills and knowledge to maintain rendering a quality tax services to the Clients;
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Ensuring the growth of the clients base from both a national and international perspective;
• Keeping track of all tax law updates and trends;
• Drafting Articles and updates to clients from time to time;
• Ability to review and sign off on KSA Tax returns, advisory works, and related objections;
• Be involved in the financial management of clients;
• Build client relationships with new and existing clients
• Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges
• Assist in the management and delivering of large projects
• Responsibility for training and mentoring trainees, seniors and managers together with reviewing their work;
• Ensure all reporting deadlines are adhered to and all tax returns are timely filed;
• Build key relationships with colleagues in other countries and group entities to ensure delivering our vision of One-GCC-One firm;
• Have deep technical knowledge in indirect tax matters (including VAT, Excise Tax, RETT, and Customs);

Requirements

Skills required:
• Experience in business development and growing client relationships and revenue;
• Ability to provide ad hoc KSA tax consulting advice to inbound or outbound KSA clients;
• Experience in litigation matters and ability to draft objections and build solid arguments;
• 10 – 13 years working experience within globally recognized tax practice;
• Previous team management experience;
• Demonstrable experience in financial reasoning of client engagements;
• Ability to communicate clearly and build strong relationships at all levels internally and externally;
• Experience in working with team in remote locations;
• Analytical thinking and problem solving;
• Digitally enabled;
• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit;
• Excellent English skills (Reading, Speaking and Writing);
• KSA Direct tax knowledge is a plus;
• Fluent in Arabic (preferred)

About the Company

MMJS is a consulting firm that is focused on adding value to its clients business through Tax, Technology and Management Consulting. Strategically located in Bahrain, Oman, UAE, Kuwait and KSA to support clients across GCC. Having served 300+ clients, MMJS has acquired the trust of many multi-national and Government clients through uncompromising quality of work.

Our VAT leadership and the team consists of experienced, passionate and ambitious staff who have VAT implementation, Advisory, Compliance and VAT Audit experience across various industries in Europe, Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and the Far East. The team is competent to provide an end-to-end solution in relation to VAT in GCC countries.