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    Senior Consultant – Transfer Pricing – International Tax & Transaction Services | Ernst & Young

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Transfer Pricing Senior Consultant at EY Our globally coordinated tax professionals offer connected services across all tax disciplines to help our clients thrive in an era of rapid change. We combine our exceptional knowledge and experience with the people and technology platforms that make us an ideal partner for all their tax-related needs. In Tax, we equip clients to make better business decisions by bringing insights to the forefront. We help companies understand the tax policies and tax laws of governments around the world to plan and comply accordingly. Our teams leverage transformative technologies to deliver strategy and execution, from tax and regulatory obligations to operations and workforce management, to reduce risk and drive sustainable value. Tax has six sub-service lines which cover a wide range of issues: Business Tax Services, Global Compliance and Reporting, Global Law, Indirect Tax, International Tax and Transaction Services and People Advisory Services. Are you committed, thorough and outgoing – and do you have a good understanding of business and experience of international tax? If so, please read on. The opportunity With us, you have the opportunity to become part of a professional tax department with employees based across number of GCC countries. We need you as an experienced transfer pricing specialist for our transfer pricing group. We have a very professional environment, exciting work tasks and a passion for creating the right solutions for our clients. In addition, we can offer a flexible working environment where you are able to personally organise and have an influence on your working day to a great extent.Your key responsibilities You will normally operate on an everyday basis at our office, where you be become part of the tax department with approx. 50 specialists in corporation tax, transfer pricing, personal tax and law as well as VAT, customs and charges.In the long term, your duties will include the following: – Responsibility for clients and large projects – Leading and development of recommendations and implementations plans – Development and delivery of transfer pricing and economic ideas – Preparation of documentation and participation in advance transfer pricing agreements – Transfer pricing audits – Day to day replies to ongoing enquiries and advice on transfer pricing and international tax – Coaching and counselling junior team members

    Skills and attributes for success Along with your commitment, your professional interest in the tax area and your desire to undertake tasks for our clients will be of the utmost important. Despite having already obtained much experience, you are focused on continuing to develop in tandem with the development of transfer pricing and our clients. You must be willing to take responsibility for clients and tasks – and to take the initiative in everyday work. To qualify for the role you must have – Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role – either from another audit house or an in-house transfer pricing section – An understanding of complex transfer pricing concepts and broad exposure to transfer pricing issues – Strong organizational, analytical and verbal/written communication skills – Professional and educational qualifications are Master of Science (MSc) in Business Administration and Commercial Law, Master of Science (MSc) in Business Administration and Auditing or Master of Laws Ideally, you’ll also have – Proficiency in Arabic – Professional services experience What we look for As a person, you can safely say that you: – Are quality-conscious and service-minded – Enjoy working independently and productively but, at the same time, find it easy being part of a team – Are good at delegating tasks – Have professional ambitions on both your own and the company’s behalf – Inspire confidence and are outgoing – and take responsibility for tasks. What we look for Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident team player that collaborates with people from various teams while looking to develop your career in a dynamic organization. What we offer We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer: – Continuous learning : You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next. – Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way. – Transformative leadership : We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs. – Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build. EY Building a better working world EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

    EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

    EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. Information about how EY collects and uses personal data and a description of the rights individuals have under data protection legislation are available on our site.

    The MENA practice of EY has been operating in the region since 1923. For over 95 years, we have grown to over 7,500 people united across 21 offices and 16 countries, sharing the same values and an unwavering commitment to quality. As an organization, we continue to develop outstanding leaders who deliver exceptional services to our clients and who contribute to our communities. We are proud of our accomplishments over the years, reaffirming our position as the largest and most established professional services organization in the region More

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    Regional Finance Manager | Charterhouse

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Charterhouse are currently managing a search for one of our leading client’s, within the professional services sector, whom are in the process of looking to identify a Group Finance Manager based out of their Dubai hub. This Finance Manager shall inherit a small unit of staff, covering a team of partners and lawyers, based across a network of regional offices. This position is designed to oversee and support all areas of financial accounting, financial management and business partnering whilst providing consolidated financial accounts, for group submittal to the EMEA headquarters, on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis. This position shall be heavily geared towards both planning and budgeting processes whilst also being instrumental in the operational oversight of cash management, collections and forecasting functions. In conjunction, the role shall extend to the review of policies and controls for internal audit purposes.

    Our client is looking to hire a professionally qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA) whom can demonstrate, up to 5 years of experience, within an operational and more latterly leadership/management based role. A knowledge of the workings of the professional services and/or consultancy sector will be an important aspect of the search criterion and applicants are required to possess experience of working within a practice environment; whereby they can bring both technical expertise and a commercial gravitas to the role. The successful candidate will be required to present a strong knowledge of IT processes including Excel-based platforms; this will be critical to meet both process-change initiatives whilst also allowing an understanding of the business-support and fee earning tracking tools.

    The Charterhouse brand and business was launched in Dubai and the Middle East in April 2004 by a team of international recruiters and management consultants, after its inception in Sydney, Australia in September 2003. Charterhouse Middle East is now positioned as the leading regional recruiter within its area of disciplines and functional markets.

    Charterhouse offers professional and bespoke contingency and retained search services to all sectors of the market. Service quality is guaranteed, thanks to a particular focus on flexibility. Charterhouse was the first international search and selection business to establish Dubai as its base. The growth in the Middle East region has been mirrored by Charterhouse globally, with offices now in Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. More

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    Product Owner | Saudi Networkers Services (SNS Group)

    Employment:

    Full Time

    • Product Owner is a professional responsible for setting, prioritizing, and accepting the work generated by a team in order to ensure the most valuable and proper functionality of the product.• As Product Owner, you will gather feature requests, schedule releases and coordinates sprints. • You should be able to identify user needs, help a customer understand a business value and work with cross-functional teams to manage product releases.• Your effort is important for the organization as you will need to deliver product not just according to users, but the product that helps make our organization vision reality.

    • Related credited certificate in Agile methodology.• Minimum of 12 years experience.• Working knowledge in Jira, Confluence & Bitbucket.• Work with internal and external customers to analyze the needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals.• Owns the product roadmap.• Develop scope and define backlog items (epic/features/user stories) that guide the Agile software development team.• Solve product related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments.• Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions.• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.• Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product.

    Saudi Networkers is one of the largest consultancies providing services to ICT, Oil & Energy, Technology, Engineering, Banking, Finance and Healthcare arena across Middle East & Africa, covered by teams, specialized in their assigned industry sector.

    Saudi Networkers founded in 2001 and has excelled ever since in providing cost effective solutions to the biggest multinational companies in MEA region with very high standards of quality whilst adhering business ethics and meeting our clients expectations.

    Today, SNS Group is one of the leading consultancies, with more than 1700+ employees worldwide, ISO 9001:2008 certified and is highly regarded. More

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    .Net Systems Developer | Saudi Networkers Services (SNS Group)

    Employment:

    Full Time

    We are looking for a .Net developer to build software using languages and technologies of the .NET framework. You will create applications from scratch, configure existing systems and provide user support.In this role, you should be able to write functional code with a sharp eye for spotting defects. You should be a team player and excellent communicator. If you are also passionate about the .NET framework and software design/architecture, we’d like to meet you.• Your goal will be to work with internal teams to design, develop and maintain software.

    • Proven experience as a .NET Developer. • Familiarity with the ASP.NET framework, SQL Server and design/architectural patterns (e.g. Model-View-Controller (MVC)).• Knowledge of at least one of the .NET languages (e.g. C#, Visual Basic .NET) and HTML5/CSS3.• Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC).• Understanding of Agile methodologies.• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills.• Attention to detail.• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.• Working knowledge in Jira, Confluence & Bitbucket.• Minimum of 8 years experience in the field.

    Saudi Networkers is one of the largest consultancies providing services to ICT, Oil & Energy, Technology, Engineering, Banking, Finance and Healthcare arena across Middle East & Africa, covered by teams, specialized in their assigned industry sector.

    Saudi Networkers founded in 2001 and has excelled ever since in providing cost effective solutions to the biggest multinational companies in MEA region with very high standards of quality whilst adhering business ethics and meeting our clients expectations.

    Today, SNS Group is one of the leading consultancies, with more than 1700+ employees worldwide, ISO 9001:2008 certified and is highly regarded. More

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    Solutions Architect – Web Application | Saudi Networkers Services (SNS Group)

    Employment:

    Full Time

    • Must have a four-year Bachelor’s degree at minimum in Management, Communication, Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or other relevant specialization.• Preferred certifications include TOGAF Certified, Certified Scrum Master from Scrum.org or Scrum Alliance, CISSP, AWS Solutions Architect (or Microsoft/Google equivalent).

    • 4 years experience MINIMUM as a solutions architect spanning multiple products, technologies, and platforms.• 4 years experience collaborating, reviewing, and supporting multiple technical teams to align with architectural decisions.• 4 years experience designing architectures of complex, distributed web applications and services, encompassing all tiers (both servers and software for file storage, databases, full text indexes, application containers, web servers, queuing servers, load balancers, etc.).• 4 years experience producing artifacts related to the design and documentation of architectures.• 8 years experience MINIMUM building Java-based applications.• 7 years experience with REST web services.• 6 years experience using the Spring Framework, including Spring Boot.• 7 years experience developing applications using an ORM framework.• 8 years experience working with Linux command line and Linux scripts.• 5 years experience building servers for different purposes, including file server clusters, application servers, database servers, indexing servers, etc.• 4 years experience successfully deploying and maintaining open source infrastructure technologies across a wide variety of purposes.• 2 years experience monitoring and maintaining farms of Linux servers and clusters.• 8 years experience using HTML5 and CSS3.• 6 years experience development using Javascript.• 4 years experience with Bootstrap and jQuery.• 2 years working with Javascript frameworks, e.g. React, Angular, Vue.• 4 years experience producing and analyzing complex SQL queries.• 6 years working in an environment relying upon automated builds and continuous integration.• 5 years working in an organization deeply adhering to the Scrum methodology.• 5 years collaborating with quality assurance teams either as a developer or architect.

    Saudi Networkers is one of the largest consultancies providing services to ICT, Oil & Energy, Technology, Engineering, Banking, Finance and Healthcare arena across Middle East & Africa, covered by teams, specialized in their assigned industry sector.

    Saudi Networkers founded in 2001 and has excelled ever since in providing cost effective solutions to the biggest multinational companies in MEA region with very high standards of quality whilst adhering business ethics and meeting our clients expectations.

    Today, SNS Group is one of the leading consultancies, with more than 1700+ employees worldwide, ISO 9001:2008 certified and is highly regarded. More

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    Senior DevOps & Linux Systems Administrator | Saudi Networkers Services (SNS Group)

    Employment:

    Full Time

    • Senior DevOps engineer and system administrator expert responsible for installation/configuration, operation, monitoring, upgrading/patching, maintenance, and documentation of information systems hardware, software, and related infrastructure.• Develop new system and application implementation plans, custom scripts, and testing procedures to ensure operational and project reliability.• Establish documented procedures and guidelines for the installation and management of the server computer operating systems, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, and other resources in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.• Install, configure, modify, and maintain applications, packages, and other software on server computer systems. • Apply software patches and upgrades on a regular basis as needed. Develop and maintain installation, configuration, and other procedures. • Provide server support related to application installation, configuration, and maintenance.• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.• Ensures that records of system anomalies and equipment inventory are properly maintained.• Linux (Ubuntu distribution in particular), bash, Linux scripts, glusterfs, elasticsearch, nuxeo, jBPM, apt-get, ssh, web applications (Javascript front ends and Java backends), web services, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, Ansible, Jenkins, Jira, Bitbucket, git.

    • 8 years experience MINIMUM administering Linux based systems.• 6 years experience monitoring and maintaining farms of Linux servers and clusters.• 6 years experience successfully deploying and maintaining open source infrastructure technologies across a wide variety of purposes.• 6 years experience taking backups and conducting restores of servers.• 6 years experience working with Linux command line and Linux scripts.• 4 years maintaining an environment relying upon automated builds and continuous integration, deployment, and delivery.• 4 years experience building file server clusters using glusterfs, ceph, or others.• 4 years experience supporting servers hosting tomcat, PostgreSQL.• 4 years experience with hosting and monitoring REST web services.• 2 years experience developing complicated scripts using bash, python, perl, or others.• 4 years working in an organization deeply adhering to the Scrum methodology.• 4 years producing documentation and artifacts related to the administration of systems, e.g. design documents, UML diagrams, proof-of-concepts.

    Saudi Networkers is one of the largest consultancies providing services to ICT, Oil & Energy, Technology, Engineering, Banking, Finance and Healthcare arena across Middle East & Africa, covered by teams, specialized in their assigned industry sector.

    Saudi Networkers founded in 2001 and has excelled ever since in providing cost effective solutions to the biggest multinational companies in MEA region with very high standards of quality whilst adhering business ethics and meeting our clients expectations.

    Today, SNS Group is one of the leading consultancies, with more than 1700+ employees worldwide, ISO 9001:2008 certified and is highly regarded. More

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    Learning and Organisational Development Manager | Hays

    Employment:

    Full Time

    My client is a major financial services entity based in Abu Dhabi. The business is going from strength to strength and constantly evolving. – They are looking for an experienced Learning and Organisational Development Manager to join their team. – Someone who has managed end-to-end projects – Someone who has designed learning and development programmes

    – 8+ year of total experience in Learning and Organisational Development- At least 3 years should be in a Manager role- Any employee engagement and recognition experience is a plus- Banking or financial services background would be beneficial – HR Degree or HR Qualification – Experience creating new initiatives – Independent – Who can build rapport with the team – Self starter

    Hays is the leading global specialist recruiting group. We are the experts at recruiting qualified, professional and skilled people worldwide.

    Our Middle East office was founded in December 2005, headquartered in Dubai UAE. We deal with clients in the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and other key areas in the region. Our consultants sector-specific knowledge and unique understanding of the local market allows us to offer an exceptional level of service across all divisions.

    We currently recruit for roles in the following sectors: Accounting & Finance, Architecture, Banking, Construction & Property, Engineering, Healthcare, Human Resources, Information Technology, Logistics, Legal, Office Support, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Supply Chain & Procurement, and Sales & Marketing.

    As part of our continuing expansion, we have opened a dedicated Abu Dhabi desk to further assist with our client needs across the region. More

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    Finance and Accounting Officer | The ReKruiters

    Employment:

    Full Time

    • Accomplishing the finance & accounting department and organization’s mission by completing related tasks as needed as per IFRS (International Financial Reporting System) and in compliance with SOCPA Saudi local statutory laws’• Leading audits of books and annual tax filing and getting the Zakat Certificate on time.• Being a key point of contact for other departments on financial and accounting matters.• Acquiring an in-depth knowledge of organizational services and processes.• Tracking bank deposits and payments.• Processing payments to Suppliers/Vendors.• Maintaining Bank/Cash Register for Incoming & Outgoing Checks/Transfers.• Generating transactions for Accounts Receivables.• Recording incoming payments.• Preparing & maintaining the fixed assets register.• Generating monthly depreciation entries to be posted in the accounting system.• Recording of purchase of assets and disposal.• Recording of payroll cost to defined cost centers.• Preparing payroll and all related accrued costs as per Saudi Labor Law.• Preparing Profit & Loss Statement and other Financial Statements including Balance Sheets.• Reporting for monthly withholding tax and annual income tax return filings.• Preparing and uploading VAT return in ERAD System.• Reviewing and implementing financial policies.• Managing records, receipts, and invoices.• Issuing and processing invoices.• Keeping accurate records for all daily transactions.• Recording accounts payable and accounts receivable.• Updating internal systems with financial data.• Reconciling monthly and yearly transactions and bank statements.• Resolving financial issues by developing action plans to implement change.• Projecting acquisition and expansion prospects.• Assisting in the preparation of budgets.• Monitoring financial performance by measuring and analyzing results to minimize the impact of variances.• Comparing and adjusting the budgets and projections.• Consulting cost restructuring plans.• Leading in financial audits.• Valuing the company.• Preparing monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports.

    Must Be:Be a holder of a bachelor’s degree in:• Finance• Banking• Accounting• Economics• 2.5 + years increasingly responsible role in• Finance and Accounting.• Strong working knowledge of MS Office.Additional:• A Master’s degree• CFA• CMA

    We are an independent specialized recruiting & staffing firm, headquartered in the United Arab of Emirates & specialize in contingency recruitment, executive searches as well as hiring locals (Emiratization and Omanization).

    The ReKruiters is a team of experts with over 30 years’ experience in the inclusive support of companies, groups and other units in the public and private sector. Our consultants combined language specialties include Arabic, English, French, Russian, Hindi & Urdu. Our aim is to simplify the selection and recruitment process of qualified personals across a wide variety of industries in the GCC region.

    We guarantee full support during the recruitment and selection of candidates & are committed to the long-term success of your company delivering the highest quality of service.

    One of your unique focus points is also enable the newer generation of candidates through our Mostakbly program; it is designed to help streamline the hiring process of recently graduated candidate as well as undergrads through an end-to-end digital experience. More