International Tax Advisory - Tax Operating Model Effectiveness - United Arab Emirates

International Tax Advisory - Tax Operating Model Effectiveness

Our globally coordinated tax professionals offer connected services across all tax disciplines to help our clients thrive in an era of rapid change. We combine our exceptional knowledge and experience with the people and technology platforms that make us an ideal partner for all their tax-related needs. In Tax, we equip clients to make better business decisions by bringing insights to the forefront. We help companies understand the tax policies and tax laws of governments around the world to plan and comply accordingly.

Our teams leverage transformative technologies to deliver strategy and execution, from tax and regulatory obligations to operations and workforce management, to reduce risk and drive sustainable value. Tax has six sub-service lines which cover a wide range of issues: Business Tax Services, Global Compliance and Reporting, Global Law, Indirect Tax, International Tax and Transaction Services (ITTS) and People Advisory Services.

The opportunity

EY’s Operating Model Effectiveness (OME) service and competency is led by its ITTS practice. OME is helping multinationals design, implement and sustain effective operating models by navigating the international business, technology, talent and legislative landscape and delivering performance improvement in a tax aligned way.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Tax professional to join a growing team in an emerging market. As an International Tax Senior Consultant in OME, your primary focus will be advising global companies on the various regional and international tax implications of their operations. Sound interesting? 

Your key responsibilities

You will be managing the successful delivery of international tax engagements and assisting partners / directors with generating new business opportunities and building client networks and relationships. Your work would include:

• Performing research and analysis of business and tax related issues to develop and present reliable and useful insights for use by senior project team members.
• Working with large and complex client datasets to perform data sanitization, simplification and presentation for easy reference and manipulation by project teams for stated and unstated use on projects.
• Supporting routine project management activities such as weekly updates, committee materials, management of foreign teams and engagement administration.
• Performing value chain analysis and developing the appropriate frameworks to support project work.
• Developing advanced understanding of technologies available for use on projects, propose new and innovative ways of leveraging technologies to enhance productivity and engagement quality and efficiency.

The types of projects you’ll contribute towards may include: 

• Centralization, hub and principal model planning.
• Supply chain network optimizations.
• New market-entry operating model designs.
• Pre-and-Post M&A operating model transformation / integration.
• Business model innovation and operating model design.
• Tax strategy and governance development.
• Design of operating models that manage permanent establishment, withholding tax, transfer pricing, irrecoverable indirect tax and customs / excise issues.    
• Intellectual property strategies and planning.

You will be contributing to building and maintaining key client relationships by delivering exceptional client service and collaborate with multi-discipline teams of tax, strategy and consulting professionals across the MENA region and globally across a broad range of industries.

You will be expected to work as part of a multi-jurisdictional / disciplinary teams in terms of pursuing, managing and delivering engagements and assisting in managing engagement economics by organizing staffing, tracking fees and communicating issues to project leaders. You will build strong internal relationships within international tax team and across other service lines and you will counsel and develop more junior staff through delegation and on the job training. 

You’ll proactively maintain your technical knowledge by keeping abreast of global developments in international tax landscape so that you can better advise our clients. In return we’ll provide investment in the right sort of training and offer you the opportunities on projects and assignments that will develop and challenge you so that you’re in the best place to develop your tax career. 

Whatever the projects and assignments you work on you can be confident that you’re contributing towards helping our clients to develop and execute their international tax strategy ensuring technical excellence and providing the highest levels of client service.  

Skills and attributes for success

If you are a client-centric, strategically and commercially aware professional who is an effective communicator in a range of situations, you will be perfect for the role.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor's Degree in Tax, Economics, Accounting or Finance.
• 3 to 5 years of tax experience in an advisory capacity (e.g. not pure reporting or compliance). 
• A broad knowledge of international tax concepts related to direct tax (transfer pricing, PE, IP, CFC and computation issues), indirect tax (domestic vs cross-border transactions) issues and tax-accounting concepts.
• Strong organisational, project management, analytical and verbal/written communication skills. 
• Proven track record with a leading professional services firm.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• An approved professional qualification or equivalent (e.g. ADIT / ATT / ACCA / CPA / ACA / CA / LLB or MBA, or MA, MSc or PhD in fields listed above). 
• Proficiency in Arabic, written and spoken.
• Experience in providing tax advisory from a professional services or consulting background.
• Prior experience in advising on operational model improvements in a taxation context.

What we look for

Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident team player that collaborates with people from various teams while looking to develop your career in a dynamic organization.

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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