Manager - Corporate Tax
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About the Role
J. Awan & Partners seeks a Manager for Corporate Tax in Dubai. The role involves overseeing corporate tax compliance and advisory services, managing client engagements, and supporting business development.
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Responsibilities
- Oversee accurate and timely preparation and review of UAE Corporate Tax returns and provisions.
- Manage client engagements, monitor progress, budgets, and timelines.
- Provide clients with practical advice on UAE Corporate Tax, structuring, and reliefs.
- Prepare and review technical memos and position papers on complex tax matters.
- Support cross border tax matters including permanent establishment risk and double tax treaties.
- Assist in business development by identifying opportunities and preparing proposals.
Requirements
- Experience in corporate tax compliance and advisory
- In depth knowledge of UAE Corporate Tax Law and regulations
- Experience with EmaraTax and FTA procedures
- Strong client management and engagement skills
- Ability to manage budgets and billing cycles
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Corporate Tax Compliance & Reporting
- Oversee the accurate and timely preparation and review of UAE Corporate Tax returns, provisions and supporting workings across a portfolio of clients.
- Manage clients Corporate Tax registration, deregistration and tax group formation, ensuring all filings are completed correctly on EmaraTax and within statutory deadlines.
- Review book to tax adjustments, taxable income computations and disclosures, ensuring alignment with the Corporate Tax Law and relevant Cabinet and Ministerial Decisions.
- Act as the key point of contact for client engagements, monitoring progress, managing budgets and timelines, and ensuring all deadlines and deliverables are met.
- Ensure engagement documentation, working papers and filing evidence are maintained to a standard that withstands Federal Tax Authority (FTA) scrutiny and audit.
Tax Advisory & Technical Delivery
- Provide clients with clear, practical advice on UAE Corporate Tax.
- Advise on structuring, elections and reliefs, including the participation exemption, interest deduction limitation rules, transfer pricing and small business relief.
- Assist clients with the tax implications of new ventures and ongoing operations.
- Prepare and review technical memos, position papers and assessments on complex tax matters, presenting conclusions in a well reasoned and commercially useful manner.
- Support cross border and international tax matters, including permanent establishment risk, withholding taxes, and the application of double tax treaties.
- Coordinate with the VAT and wider advisory teams to provide clients with joined up, firm wide tax solutions.
- Prepare the internal tax accounts for Group entities within the Firm.
Client & Engagement Management
- Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with clients across the financial services sector, acting as a reliable adviser throughout the engagement lifecycle.
- Manage the successful delivery of tax compliance and advisory projects for a broad range of local and international clients, balancing quality, profitability and client satisfaction.
- Lead client meetings, calls and correspondence, translating technical requirements into clear actions and next steps.
- Support client onboarding, including engagement scoping, letters of engagement and Know Your Client (KYC) requirements.
Billing & Commercial Management
- Take ownership of the monthly billing cycle for the client portfolio, including preparing and reviewing draft invoices, ensuring fees are raised accurately and in line with agreed engagement terms and scope.
- Monitor work in progress and liaise with the Finance and Billing teams to ensure timely invoicing and resolution of billing queries.
- Track budgets against actuals across engagements, flag scope creep and out of scope work and manage variation or excess hours communications with clients.
Risk & Quality Management
- Identify potential tax risks and propose appropriate risk mitigating strategies for clients.
- Ensure that internal risk, quality and compliance processes are always adhered to, consulting with the risk team on engagements where required.
- Keep up to date with the latest legislation and regulatory developments including FTA guidance, Cabinet Decisions and Ministerial Decisions and assess their impact on clients and the firm.
Business Development
- Assist in the development of the firm's tax practice by identifying new business opportunities within existing and prospective clients.
- Prepare and deliver client presentations, proposals, fee estimates and tax briefings.
- Contribute to thought leadership, technical updates and marketing initiatives that build the firm's profile in the UAE tax market.
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