Tax - Transfer Pricing - Manager

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Tax

Specialism
Transfer Pricing

Management Level
Manager

Job Description & Summary
A career in our Regional Transfer Pricing practice, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients throughout the Middle East develop compliant, tax efficient structures that help advance their business goals. You'll focus on all aspects of documentation planning, dispute resolution, and advance pricing agreements.

Inter-company transactions across borders are growing rapidly and are becoming much more complex. Compliance with the differing requirements of multiple overlapping tax jurisdictions is a complicated and time-consuming task. As member of the Transfer Pricing Team, you will work on all aspects of intercompany pricing arrangements between related business entities, including transfers of intellectual property; transfers of tangible goods; services and loans and other financing transactions.

Thorough knowledge of developing global tax minimization strategies; maintaining close cooperation between subject matter experts in economic analysis, tax law, and accounting; inter-company pricing arrangements between related business entities including transfers of intellectual property, transfers of tangible goods, services & loans and other financing transactions.

Considerable knowledge in identifying and assessing clients cross-border inter-company transactions; developing local country transfer pricing documentation, strategizing on local-country revenue authority transfer pricing audits, performing global planning for continuous optimization of clients existing and new US-to-foreign and foreign-to-foreign inter-company transactions as well as special projects related to clients restructuring and acquisitions.

Responsibilities
As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Foreign rules, inter-company pricing arrangements, international taxation, and cross-border inter-company transactions; developing local country transfer pricing documentation; global planning for continuous optimization of clients existing and foreign-to-foreign inter-company transactions, as well as special projects related to clients restructuring, acquisitions and divestitures, statistical tools and modeling methodologies.
- Considerable experience identifying and addressing client needs: building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships and community involvement; communicating value propositions; managing resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collections; and preparing and/or coordinating complex written and verbal materials.
- Work primarily on private equity and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), as well as working on supply chain planning (VCT) projects within the O&G industry for Middle Eastern based O&G companies operating outbound into Asia, EMEIA, and the Americas.
- Assist and advise clients on the Transfer Pricing in the UAE and wider Middle East region. Prepare Transfer Pricing training presentations aimed at external and internal audiences
- You should also have an awareness of PwC services and experience in working as part of a team, understanding personal and team roles and building solid relationships with team members.
- Ability to develop and maintain existing internal and client relationships and help build new relationships

Requirements

Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant subject i.e. Finance, Economics, LLB etc.
- A minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience in Transfer Pricing within a developed market
- Deep knowledge of financial transactions within Transfer Pricing
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Dealing with and managing client relationships
- Seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation
- Maintaining existing client relationships as well as developing new business

Desirable requirements
- TP experience in the Oil & Gas, Sovereign Wealth Fund and Financial services space is highly desirable.
- Post-graduate degree or relevant professional qualification
- Fluency in Arabic is desired
- Exposure to/ experience working in the Middle East

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.