Accounting and Tax Manager

Role Overview

Accounting and Tax Manager at Deluxe Holiday Homes, Dubai. A hands-on Chief Accountant role owning month-end close, Corporate Tax, VAT, and external audit across all group entities.

Company Overview

Deluxe Holiday Homes is a leading holiday-home and property-management company in Dubai, managing 700+ premium short-term rentals. The wider Deluxe Homes Group runs several licensed entities, a real-estate brokerage, and joint ventures across the UAE and Armenia. The finance function is being professionalized.

Role Purpose

Own the books, tax filings, and audit across the group. Keep records clean, filings on time, and relationships with auditors, banks, and the FTA properly managed. This is a hands-on ownership role requiring direct execution, not review only.

Key Responsibilities

Close and Consolidation

• Own the month-end close calendar and deliver closed books on deadline across all entities.
• Review and sign off journals, reconciliations, and the trial balance before consolidation.
• Prepare clean consolidation inputs for the Financial Controller's management pack.

Tax and Audit

• File Corporate Tax and VAT in-house, accurately and on time.
• Keep Corporate Tax, VAT, and joint venture transfer-pricing working papers.
• Lead the external audit end to end—prepare the file, manage queries, and deliver signed financials.
• Be the primary point of contact for banks and the FTA on accounts, facilities, and correspondence.

Controls and Intercompany

• Run the controls framework—segregation of duties and payment-approval routing.
• Keep intercompany balances reconciled and correctly eliminated on consolidation.
• Oversee the Dubai cash-control framework: GRO handover reconciliation and deposit discipline.

Team and Records

• Supervise the Senior Accountant in Dubai and the accounting team in Armenia; review their work.
• Maintain the fixed-asset register, accruals, and prepayment schedules.
• Ensure statutory and licence-linked filings are met on time.

Additional Information

• Make calls within your remit and escalate only what genuinely needs the Deputy GM or Owner.
• Sole bank-signing authority stays with the Owner; you prepare, control, and release for approval but do not self-pay.