This role will be to provide variety of VAT tax advisory and compliance services to clients. Your primary responsibility will be VAT tax advisory and compliance however you will be expected to be part of business development, Economic Substance Regulations (ESR) and a basic knowledge of the Corporate Tax.
Your responsibilities include:
- Supporting the VAT department with a focus on clients operating in the UAE or globally from both an advisory and compliance perspective.
- Be able to deliver and manage complex VAT projects. Knowledge of the BEPS initiatives and GCC VAT will be an advantage.
- Manage and deliver projects by developing the project team, assessing engagement risks throughout, driving conclusions, and reviewing / challenging the output produced by the team.
- Shape and deliver projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria.
- A thorough understanding of the VAT rules and keeping abreast of the constant evolving legislative changes in the UAE.
- Be responsible for building close relationships with a wide range of clients and leading a team to deliver VAT services, including VAT tax advisory, tax planning, tax strategy, tax compliance, and providing guidance and recommendations to achieve the best VAT practices.
- Driving business development to identify opportunities, both independently and across other lines of services, to have conversations and win work with new and existing clients.
- Proactive targeting of clients and through referral to ensure business development target of the department is met in alignment with the firms business development strategy.
- Be the UAE point of contact for inbound referrals from overseas BDO offices, building your network within the BDO firm.
- Be responsible for performing conflict checks or any inbound leads and proactively taking steps to mitigate the conflict if any by the guidance provided as per IESBA.
- Train, coach, and supervise team members.
- Build a culture of quality within the department.
About You
- ACA, ACCA, CTA, ADIT or equivalent professional qualification along with basic graduation in accounting.
- Having minimum of 8 to 10 plus years of post-qualification experience in a large accounting firm having multi-jurisdictional presence
- Knowledge of ESR, Transfer Pricing, BEPS 2.0 and CbCR is an advantage
- Good command of written and spoken English
