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Role Overview
Senior Tax Specialist at AW Rostamani Group. The role is based within the Group's tax function and reports to Group tax leadership.
Company Overview
AW Rostamani Group is a leading multi-sector family business in the Middle East with a legacy of over seven decades. The Group operates across automotive, real estate, retail, lighting solutions, travel, logistics, agritech and sustainable packaging. It serves over 155,000 customers and 24,000 businesses annually, supported by a diverse team of more than 3,000 employees. Guided by its purpose to enrich lives across generations, the Group is dedicated to building purposeful businesses that meaningfully impact people, industries and the planet.
Role Purpose
The Senior Tax Specialist is responsible for all tax aspects and operations including tax strategy, tax management monitoring and controls, tax planning and tax optimization, and tax advisory to operations and various functions. The role actively collaborates with Group and Country/Business Units teams on tax inputs for mergers and acquisitions, business plans, tax assessments management, digital expansions, new markets growth and various Group initiatives. The role manages BEPS, transfer pricing, country-by-country reporting and other global tax compliances, efficiently managing effective tax rate (ETR), review and finalization of tax disclosures and deferred taxes, implementation of new taxes and management of uncertain tax risk positions across countries.
Key Responsibilities
Tax Legislation & Compliance
- Stay up to date with the latest relevant tax legislative changes and support preparation of the Group for implementation of changes in tax regimes such as VAT, UAE corporate tax and transfer pricing.
- Conduct tax impact assessments, transaction flows analysis, trainings and advisory and systems updates and implementation support.
- Be well versed with all aspects of tax compliances and tax filings in various jurisdictions.
- Ensure tax compliances including Corporate, VAT, Employees, Withholding and Global Reporting are done in a timely and accurate manner.
- Support Parent Group and Management in terms of compliance with tax requirements such as country-by-country reporting (CBCR), BEPS Pillar 1 and 2, Global Minimum Tax and Economic Substance Regulations (ESR).
Tax Strategy & Optimization
- Initiate and execute tax optimization and tax planning opportunities.
- Ensure optimization and simplification of legal entity structure of the Group from a tax and regulatory perspective.
- Coordinate with treasury to ensure tax-efficient cash management, including investment, redeployment and repatriation of cash between the company and its foreign affiliates.
- Design and implement transfer pricing policies and procedures at the Group head office level and support subsidiaries to ensure compliance on these aspects.
- Prepare and manage transfer pricing documentation and allocation workings to support internal transfer pricing framework.
Tax Risk Management & Due Diligence
- Keep account of tax contingencies or potential contingencies associated with key tax positions taken in operating countries.
- Identify tax risks by working together with Group, Regional and Local finance and business personnel and optimize those tax risks.
- Conduct a tax health check of relevant business and legal entities from a tax control perspective and put in place the required mitigates.
- Strategically participate in tax due diligence and structuring related to new openings, mergers and acquisitions and divestitures.
- Perform tax due diligence for targets, develop tax efficient acquisition structuring and post-acquisition integration plans.
Tax Reporting & Controls
- Provide guidance and training to local country and business units tax teams.
- Review tax provision packages, tax returns and tax disclosures in consolidated statutory financial statements.
- Reconcile tax data on financial statements.
- Assist tax leadership with oversight of global effective tax rate (ETR) and tax provision and reconciliation of deferred taxes, tax payable and reserves accounts.
- Work with tax automation mindset and continuously explore opportunities to improve tax controls, framework and tax reporting.
Stakeholder Management & Advisory
- Serve as a focal point of contact within the company for tax related advice and guidance.
- Facilitate resolution of tax audit exercises within the operating jurisdiction.
- Cultivate long-term partnerships with other functional teams including finance, legal, strategy, business developments, within the Company, global and regional sector teams, business units, external legal and financial service providers and country tax and regulatory authorities.
- Review major contracts from tax perspective and participate with legal and functional teams on finalization of negotiations and dealings.
Tax Research & Technical Analysis
- Perform direct tax technical research including analysis and interpretation of relevant tax laws, regulations, cases and agency guidance.
- Timely update relevant stakeholders as appropriate on developments.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree or above in Commerce, Economics, Finance or Taxation.
- Professional qualifications such as CA, CPA, CTA or other relevant to tax specialization are necessary.
- 10+ years in similar function.
Skills & Competencies
- Sound judgment and instincts in evaluating complex tax scenarios.
- Conversant with tax best practices.
- Strong communication and influencing skills.
- Excellent presentation skills and ability to train in system usage.
- Awareness of country laws, rules and regulations and quickly able to analyze and adapt to law changes.
- A good mix of industry and advisory firm experience is expected.
- MS Office Package including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Operating systems such as JDE, SAP and Oracle are added value.
Additional Information
- English language proficiency is required.