Senior Consultant - Corporate Tax

Job Title: Senior Consultant - Corporate Tax 
Service Line / Team: Tax Advisory Services

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, giving you more flexibility and high priority on mentorship and professional development.

At BDO, we understand that being the leader in exceptional client service begins – and ends – with exceptional regard for our people. Relationships matter in our work and interactions with clients and how we work and interact with each other. What differentiates BDO as an employer is our focus on relationships.

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.