Job description

The Group Assistant Tax Manager role is responsible for managing international taxation, corporate tax, VAT, transfer pricing, and overall tax compliance monitoring across multiple jurisdictions within a multi-sector retail and diversified business environment. The position involves reviewing alternative tax positions to determine cost-effective approaches, supporting local and overseas jurisdictions on tax computation, tax accounting, tax internal reporting, and drafting legal submissions, appeals, and replies to tax authority notices. The role manages tax litigation, tax advisory, and global tax reporting including preparedness for UAE Corporate Income Tax (CIT) and interplay with OECD BEPS Pillar 1 and OECD BEPS Pillar 2 frameworks. Responsibilities include maintaining and analyzing tax risk positions, corporate tax and deferred tax provisions, preparing tax disclosures and tax footnotes in global consolidated financial statements, identifying tax risks, and ensuring compliance with changes in tax laws and regulations. The role supports tax planning, restructuring, feasibility modeling, and implementation of global tax strategies while communicating financial impact of taxes across business functions. The position requires monitoring legislative changes, performing tax impact assessment, transaction flow analysis, training, advisory, systems updates, and implementation support. The role includes managing withholding tax and foreign tax for cross-border transactions, optimizing utilization of double tax avoidance treaties, handling withholding tax refunds, maintaining compliance trackers, coordinating with treasury for tax-efficient cash management including investment, redeployment, and repatriation of funds, conducting tax health checks, reviewing contracts from tax perspective, and supporting negotiation processes. Additional responsibilities include tax automation initiatives, improving tax controls and frameworks, analyzing cross-border mobility risk for corporate and individual tax consequences, managing relationships with tax authorities, liaising with external auditors, performing tax modeling to optimize group tax and profit, updating business processes based on tax regulatory changes, and collaborating with divisions to ensure successful testing and implementation of tax processes. The role requires use of MS Office including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and operating systems such as JDE, SAP, and Oracle. The candidate is expected to have experience in industry and advisory firms, awareness of country laws, rules, and regulations, and fluency in English.