Transfer Pricing (Financial Services) - Director

Job description / Role

Tax & Legal Services - Tax - Transfer Pricing (Financial Services) - Director

Line of Service
Tax

Industry/Sector
Banking and Capital Markets

Specialism
Transfer Pricing

Management Level
Director

Job Description & Summary
A career within Transfer Pricing services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients 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.

Our team is responsible for 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.

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 a senior member of the Transfer Pricing Team, you will work on all aspects of intercompany pricing arrangements between related business entities within the wider financial services sector (i.e. banking institutions, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, etc.). 

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 all types of intercompany transactions (i.e. management services, intellectual property, intercompany loans, cash-pooling, etc.).

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 intercompany transactions as well as special projects related to clients restructuring and acquisitions. 

Job Description: 

Assist and advise clients on their Transfer Pricing in the Middle East region by:

- Preparing regional and local country transfer pricing documentation (masterfile, local file and Country by Country reporting); 
- Advising on Transfer pricing planning projects for continuous optimization of clients inter-company transactions;, 
- Advising on special transfer pricing projects related to clients restructuring, acquisitions and divestitures, statistical tools and modeling methodologies;
- Building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships and community involvement; 
- Preparation of value propositions on various transfer pricing projects; 
- Management of resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collections;
- 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 12+ 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
- Leading and growing client relationships
- Experience in managing a regional team and working in a leading global professional services practice 
- Seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation 
- Coaching staff including providing timely meaningful written and verbal feedback
 
Desirable requirements: 

- Masters degree or relevant professional qualification in finance / taxation 
- Fluency in Arabic is desired 
- Exposure to / experience working in the Middle East is desired

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.