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Ref: GP932-1151
Job description / Role
Cooper Fitch has been appointed by the UAE Federal Tax Authority as one of their recruitment and Human Capital partners for the VAT tax introduction in the United Arab Emirates and is recruiting for a Head of Compliance Affairs.
The role entails developing and supervising compliance activities, including strategies and policies aimed at reducing the “tax gap” and promoting tax compliance.
If you are a UAE National with relevant transferable skills e.g. Audit, Finance, Legal, etc. please feel free to apply for this role.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define, implement and manage the compliance operational plan.
- Oversee business performance of the compliance affairs section.
- Develop specific VAT and Excise Tax risk management.
- Coordinate with various internal stakeholders in order to develop compliance and risk management strategies.
- Monitor all compliance and inspection practices.
- Train relevant staff on appropriate VAT and audit techniques.
- Develop and identify risk criteria to be measured.
- Develop criteria for taxable persons for audit purposes.
- Keep up to date with the VAT and Excise Tax legislation changes and inform the team.
- Support the Tax Compliance and Enforcement Director on relevant issues.
- Oversee the development of training material for the taxable persons in order to develop and support overall awareness.
- Manage the section from the perspectives of effective staffing and training.
Requirements
- 8 years experience in a compliance function
- 3 years in a managerial or supervisory role
- Bachelor’s Degree in the relevant field
- Preferred Master’s Degree and relevant qualification such as CPA or CTA
- Experience in a government entity
About the Company
At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.