Job Title: Corporate Tax Consultant/Senior Consultant
Service Line / Team: Tax Advisory Services
There are many world-class accounting firms, but there are far fewer that offer a culture so rich in professional opportunity, personal fulfilment, and long-term growth. We are committed to the sustainable development of our people’s professional life. We respect the people who work for us and provide them with the opportunity to develop their talents. Accountability and personal responsibility are encouraged at all levels and structured career planning and training gives our people more client experience and more partner time. Our global culture is built on respect and awareness of local cultural needs and differences, and we aim to be an ethical, socially and environmentally responsible organization anywhere in the world.
We at BDO in UAE are a diverse group of individuals from many cultures, and we share a common ambition: to make a difference and be the spontaneous choice in the industry. We have an excellent Partner – to – Staff ratio and an encouraging gender ratio, which gives you more flexibility, high priority on mentorship and professional development.
Your opportunity
This role will be to provide variety of corporate tax advisory and compliance services to clients. Your primary responsibility will be corporate tax advisory and compliance. Your responsibilities include:
- Working with the Corporate tax client operating in the UAE or globally from both an advisory and compliance perspective.
- Building relationships with a wide range of clients and working with senior colleagues to deliver corporate tax services, including corporate tax advisory and tax compliance to achieve the best corporate tax practices.
- Be able to deliver and manage moderate to complex corporate tax projects that include delivery high performance on advisory, compliance, litigation or similar. Knowledge of the BEPS initiatives and the latest international tax developments will be an advantage.
- A thorough understanding of the Corporate Tax rules and keeping abreast of the constant evolving legislative changes in the UAE.
- Supporting manager/senior manager in proactive targeting and through referral to ensure business development target of the department and firm is met.
- Support manager/senior manager in 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.
- Shape and deliver projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria.
- Support manager/senior manager in drafting proposals, responding to RFPs, emails, memorandums, PPTs etc.
- Support manager/senior manager for performing conflict checks or any inbound leads and support team to mitigate the conflict if any by the guidance provided as per IESBA.
Qualification
- ACA, ACCA, CTA, ADIT or equivalent professional qualification along with basic graduation in accounting.
Key Attributes
- Having minimum of 3+ years of experience in a large accounting firm having multi-jurisdictional presence.
- Knowledge of UAE VAT, ESR, Transfer Pricing, BEPS 2.0 and CbCR is an advantage
- Excellent verbal, business writing and excel skills.
- Strong analytical skills and a flexible approach to work with combination of clients.
- Project management skills such as preparing and monitoring work progress trackers, responsibility matrix, scheduling status update calls, closure procedures.
- Basic knowledge of transfer pricing concepts and associated service offerings
- Intermediate knowledge of legal / regulatory requirements in the UAE such as licensing requirements, permissible operations in the free zones.
How to join us
We seek people who are driven and who works towards the best interest of the Team and the Firm – passionate professionals who are keen to develop lasting relationships, both internally and with our clients.
Please send in your detailed resume to careers@bdo.ae. If you are successful in your application, one of our resourcing team will contact you to discuss the next steps.