Tax Manager

Job Req Number:  99426
Time Type: Full Time

Designation: Tax Manager

Location: Dammam, KSA

Role Summary:

To manage and facilitate the accurate preparation and filing of company’s tax forms. To be a team player who creates and implements tax plans and works with the accounting and leadership teams to identify opportunities for process improvement and potential areas of risk. To ensure compliance with government tax law through a series of systems and system controls that are designed to ensure accurate, timely reporting. To monitor current and implementing changes to tax regulation and make the appropriate updates to policies and strategies.

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Responsibilities:

1. Tax Compliance:

• Facilitate and manage the preparation and review of company tax returns, ensuring accurate and timely filing of all tax forms.
• Oversee the accurate and timely filing of corporate income tax, VAT/GST, and other indirect taxes across multiple jurisdictions.
• Ensure accurate, timely filing of consolidated local direct and indirect tax returns and other business-related filings.
• Monitor local, state, and international tax laws, ensuring compliance and minimizing tax liabilities.
• Manage the preparation and review of tax returns, including ensuring proper documentation and reporting.

2. Tax Strategy and Planning:

• Develop and implement tax strategies that align with business objectives and optimize tax savings.
• Analyze and provide tax planning recommendations for new business initiatives and projects.
• Evaluate potential tax risks and devise strategies for mitigation.
• Develop and implement strategic tax planning for all necessary governmental taxes.
• Plan for and develop the overall return calendar and coordinate timing and inputs with tax authorities.

2. Tax Administration and compliance

• Prepare tax reports and provide data-driven insights to management.
• Review tax returns and quarterly/yearly tax projections.
• Analyze financial data to identify tax-saving opportunities and optimize tax positions.
• Manage the process of tax registrations and deregistration, ensuring accurate and timely submission of relevant documentation to tax authorities such as the Federal Tax Authority (FTA).
• Apply for tax refunds including VAT refunds, tax credits, and other applicable rebates, ensuring timely follow-up until receipt of funds.

• Handle all documentation related to tax registration/deregistration processes, maintaining comprehensive and up-to-date records in accordance with FTA requirements.
• Coordinate with tax authorities for obtaining tax residency certificates and other necessary confirmations for business operations in the UAE.
• Track tax filing deadlines, renewal dates for tax registrations, and deregistration timelines, ensuring timely compliance and avoiding penalties.
• Assist in maintaining accurate records of tax payments, refunds, and adjustments in the accounting system.
• Liaise with external consultants for specialized tax matters, ensuring all documentation is accurate and complete before submission to tax authorities.
• Main point of contact for the Global Tax team for all business taxes and transfer pricing, including, but not limited to, preparation of the annual corporation tax provisions and true up , etc

3. Process Improvement:

• Find and implement opportunities for process improvement in company tax procedures.
• Maintain effective control procedures over all aspects of the tax process.

4. Transfer Pricing:

• Develop and implement transfer pricing policies to comply with international tax regulations.
• Prepare and maintain transfer pricing documentation and conduct transfer pricing analysis.

5. Audit Management:

• Coordinate and manage tax audits, liaising with tax authorities and external auditors.
• Manage, attend, and facilitate direct and indirect tax audits/investigations from tax authorities: preparing all necessary documentation and responses, creating schedules, etc., until the investigation is closed.
• Prepare and present tax audit findings to senior management, addressing any issues effectively.

6. Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Collaborate with finance, operations, and legal teams to ensure accurate tax reporting and compliance.
• Provide guidance on the tax implications of supply chain and logistics transactions.

8. Legislative Monitoring:

• Monitor legislative and regulatory tax law developments, communicate the effects of these developments to management, and create strategies to capitalize on changes to taxation legislation.

8. Staff Management and Development:

• Mentor the finance team in providing training and professional development for tax related.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

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Educational Qualifications & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance
• A minimum of 8 years work experience within tax and finance role and least 4 years of experience in a management role.

Competencies:

• Extensive tax knowledge specifically in VAT, Corporate tax, DMTT and UAE Tax law including Freezone and Mainland rules and regulation.
• Strong accounting, analytical, and research skills.
• Strong knowledge of tax rules, compliance and procedures for corporations.
• Strong experience with a variety of tax operations and ability to drive process improvements.
• Strong ability to utilize project management and accounting best practices to organize and prioritize tasks
• Ability to work well independently as well as the ability to work well with stakeholders and communicate the benefits of tax initiatives.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledgeable of markets & competitors, and about Industry trends & challenges
• Business Acumen (understands principles and fundamentals of finance and profitability)

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