Head of VAT & Tax – Leading Multinational
, * Experience: 10 to 15 Years
Job Summary Head of VA& TAX is required by my client a leading global organisation that is seeking the expertise of a VAT/TAX head to lead them through the new VAT/Tax obligations. The company is devised of multiple companies that forms a group and would require VAT/Tax expertise in areas such as Mergers & Acquisitions, strategic planning, due diligence and restructuring.
Key Responsibilities - Prime owner of tax planning initiatives involving companies in the region
- Working on simplifications (e.g. mergers and liquidations) with group legal.
- Working with group treasury on financing matters.
- Providing broad advice on commercial structures.
- Take overall responsibility for ensuring that Group policies and practices are tax compliant
- Review and assist legal departments with tax issues in legal and contractual issues
- Provide tax advice and direction to the business units and other group parties
- Monitoring and managing tax risk including transfer pricing
- Manage Group tax governance in conjunction with business CFOs
- Manage external adviser relationships
- Representation in industry bodies
Required Skills - The ideal candidate will be ACA qualified with 10-15 years’ experience.
- Preferably trained in a big 4 firm with subsequent in-house experience (Tech industry experience would be a bonus)
- Pro-active in managing advisors and costs in a cost conscious environment
- Planning work experience impacting on all areas of direct and indirect tax across a variety of infrastructure type entities
- Ability to present complex technical issues in lay language to a non-specialist audience business oriented
- Ability to present complex technical issues in swift business manner to local and international management
- Ability to lead and motivate staff
- Combination of autonomy with collaborative spirit
- Strong intellectual and analytical skills
- Strong networking and influencing skills
- Solid communication skills
- Arabic or French would be a plus
- Must have a degree in account (or tax), Masters would be beneficial.
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