Senior Manager - Indirect Taxation - BFS

Job responsibilities :

- Be the central point of contact and liaise with your MENA stakeholders, Onshore Managers, local stakeholders and the team

- Monitor the quality of the indirect tax data and reports of your clients

- Review and approve indirect tax returns

- Follow the legislative changes and business changes in order to ensure that the systems and/or processes are regularly updated

- Identify issues and opportunities to continuously improve the VAT compliance processes

- Should be able to perform VAT compliance advisory and VAT audit support

- Strengthen the relationship with existing clients and broaden the scope of services

- Proactively communicate and collaborate with other sub-service lines and identify the areas for cross-selling opportunities

- Propose improvements to raise effectiveness and efficiency in the work processes

People responsibilities :

- Help people to develop through effective supervision, coaching and mentoring of all levels of staff

- Transfer technical and professional knowledge to others through formal and on-the-job training

- Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for all levels of staff

- Contribute to people initiatives, including recruiting, retaining and training VAT professionals

- Maintain an educational program to develop personal skills on an ongoing basis

- Understand, follow and communicate workplace policies and procedures to all levels of staff

- Organize the team structure and set up standard processes and define roles & responsibilities of individual team members

- Coach and motivate team members to achieve highest goals and personal development

- Provide the management inputs for the performance review of counsels

- A Qualified Chartered accountant or equivalent

- Minimum 8-10 years of relevant professional experience in European VAT and any other VAT compliance

- Basic understanding of other compliance activities such as statutory accounting and corporate tax compliance

- Fluent in English - written and spoken

- Dynamic, innovative & problem solver, with strong communication skills, both written and verbal

- Team player with project management capabilities and good knowledge in IT and Excel skills