Senior Consultant – Business Tax Advisory (BTA) – Emirati National

Job description / Role

Our BTA business operates as a team of highly experienced tax professionals who focus on delivering efficient and effective advice to companies in the region. Our goal is to improve quality, manage risk, create efficiency and drive value. Our market leading approach combines standard and efficient processes, highly effective tools and an extensive network of local tax and accounting professionals. Our clients benefit from an integrated, consistent, and flexible quality service to address direct and indirect tax compliance and advisory, statutory accounting and financial reporting, and tax accounting.

The opportunity
As part of our regional services team you will assist in looking after service delivery, co-ordination, issue resolution, and contract management of projects where you will be expected to draft tax advisory memos and reports to address client concerns.

Your key responsibilities
• The focus will be on assisting the team in business advisory related service delivery.
• You will prepare tax research memos and tax advisory reports.
• Assist with local State tax return preparation and therefore understand tax adjustments and tax provisioning work.
• Attend meetings with the local Tax Authority on client related tax matters.
• Build strong internal relationships and across other services.
• Establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships with clients to help ensure that the services delivered to clients by our offices are of the highest standards and are done on a timely basis.
• You will be responsible for the day-to-day supervision of client engagements, monitor progress and deliverables, put in place the necessary standardized processes, anticipate and identify risks, escalate issues as appropriate and drive performance-improvement solutions.
• You will support the team in marketing and business development initiatives to grow our BTA client base in the region and help to create positive culture, coach and counsel junior team members to help them develop professionally and personally.