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Employment: Full Time

Line of ServiceAssuranceSpecialismData and Analytics TechnologiesManagement LevelSenior ManagerJob Description & SummaryA career in our Information Strategy, Architecture, and Governance practice, within Data and Analytics Technology services, will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics. We focus on a collection of organisational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organisations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology. You’ll make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge.Our team focuses on helping clients understand, plan for, and realise the strategic business opportunities presented by information technology. In joining, you’ll help us to bridge the gaps between business units and the Information Technology departments and unite them around a shared vision that powers the business by aligning Information Technology Strategy to business strategy, goals and strategic priorities.To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.As a Senior Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:- Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.- Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.- Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.- Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.- Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.- Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.- Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.- Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.- Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.- Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.- Applicants based in the UAE and able start immediately should apply

Preferred skills/Experience- Ideally 10+ years of relevant experience from the Big 4

PwC firms help organizations and individuals to create the value they’re looking for.
We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with close to 169,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. PwC is the brand under which member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL) operate and provide services. Together, these firms form the global PwC network.
In our 3 key areas of business or Lines of Service Assurance, Tax, and Advisory we work with our clients from business start ups to the worlds leading organizations to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
We help our own people to learn, discover, develop and make a real difference all the way through their working lives. And we have big ambitions to grow.
PwC Middle East Region is part of what we call the Central Cluster and includes the UK, Europe and Africa as well as the Middle East. The region consists of 12 markets – UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Palestine.
PwC has been established in the region for over 40 years, we already employ over 4500 people and we are on course to become the Middle East number one professional service firm. More

Employment: Full Time

Line of ServiceAssuranceSpecialismAssuranceManagement LevelSenior AssociateJob Description & SummaryA career within Internal Audit services, will provide you with an opportunity to gain an understanding of an organisation’s objectives, regulatory and risk management environment, and the diverse needs of their critical stakeholders. We focus on helping organisations look deeper and see further considering areas like culture and behaviours to help improve and embed controls. In short, we seek to address the right risks and ultimately add value to their organisation.To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:- Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.- Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.- Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.- Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.- Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.- Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.- Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.- Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.- Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.- Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.

– This position is looking for prior experience, below Manager, so ideally 2+ years- Preference will be given to applications from with Qatar given current Covid restrictions- Prior experience working in the Big 4 is ideal

PwC firms help organizations and individuals to create the value they’re looking for.
We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with close to 169,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. PwC is the brand under which member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL) operate and provide services. Together, these firms form the global PwC network.
In our 3 key areas of business or Lines of Service Assurance, Tax, and Advisory we work with our clients from business start ups to the worlds leading organizations to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
We help our own people to learn, discover, develop and make a real difference all the way through their working lives. And we have big ambitions to grow.
PwC Middle East Region is part of what we call the Central Cluster and includes the UK, Europe and Africa as well as the Middle East. The region consists of 12 markets – UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Palestine.
PwC has been established in the region for over 40 years, we already employ over 4500 people and we are on course to become the Middle East number one professional service firm. More

Employment: Full Time

Line of ServiceInternal Firm ServicesSpecialismIFS – FinanceManagement LevelSenior AssociateJob Description & SummaryA career in Finance, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to help PwC in all aspects of our Finance internal function including financial planning and reporting, data analysis, and assisting leadership with overall strategy. You’ll focus on recording and analysing financial transactions, paying and receiving invoices, maintaining financial statement ledger accounts, and preparing analysis and reconciliations of bills to detect fraud.Our Internal Tax team provides internal services related to financial services, treasury and taxation. As part of our team, you’ll help the team provide a full range of taxation services to PwC related to complex financial reporting, cost management, tax planning, investment management and transaction processing.The Firm Tax team is a part of the PwC Middle East Group’s OneFinance function. The team supports on all levels of the firm’s tax activity and is organized into three (3) subfunctions: Compliance & Audit; Governance & Risk; and Legal & Tax Advisory.  This role is intended to support the Compliance & Audit subfunction. The ME Firm Tax Compliance & Audit Associate’s role is for a tax accountant who is responsible for handling tax activities for the PwC ME Group entities under the supervision of the ME Firm Tax Compliance & Audit (Subfunction) Lead and working together with the wider Firm Tax team as well as finance tax specialists across the ME region. The main focus of the tax accountant is to support the Compliance & Audit sub function in all tax compliance and audit related matters for the region.  This includes optimising PwC’s tax position, minimising tax leakage, managing tax risks, and understanding the tax implications of cross border transactions and the business operating model.  Specifically, this will require data collection, validation and preparation of various tax compliance and reporting requirements across the region. Activities and responsibility will include: preparation of corporate income tax, withholding tax (WHT) and value added tax (VAT) returns; preparation of responses to tax authority audits and inquiries; responding to tax related questions posed by other internal firm services (IFS) functions as well as, at times, client facing (Line of Service (LoS)) teams on tax issues encountered in their day to day operations.Compliance- Prepare corporate income tax returns for the PwC ME Group entities for review by the Firm Tax Compliance & Audit (subfunction) Lead, ensuring submission deadlines are adhered to.- Prepare WHT returns for the PwC ME Group entities for review by the Firm Tax Compliance & Audit (subfunction) Lead, ensuring submission deadlines are adhered to.- Prepare VAT returns for the PwC ME Group entities for review by the Firm Tax Compliance & Audit (subfunction) Lead, ensuring submission deadlines are adhered to.- Reconcile tax to statutory accounts.- Reconcile and validate accounts and accounting entries as required (including payroll taxes, customs and excise duties, stamp duty, etc).- Deliver internal analysis/reports to Firm Tax Compliance & Audit (subfunction) Lead, flagging key risks, exposures etc., as well as tax opportunities.- Works with the wider Firm Tax team and local Tax LoS Specialists to understand tax laws and regulations in various jurisdictions within the Middle East.- Responsible for guiding transactions within the wider OneFinance team to optimise the management of tax liabilities. Audit- Provide inputs for all tax audits conducted by Firm Tax/Global Team/External Auditors.Other- Organize and conduct special analysis as required.- Assist with effective tax training and appropriate support for the business.- Consolidate, analyse and challenge tax report inputs from LoS/local teams/other finance teams as appropriate.- Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and solve complex tax challenges.- Refine tax policy and procedure documentation and ensure proper implementation and adherence across the ME Group.- Develop strong working relationships and interface with all stakeholders across the ME Group.- Be actively involved in and a positive influence on team recruiting, development, training and retention.Learning & Growth- Forms part of both the local finance community, regional tax community as well as global tax experts’ community, and maintains appropriate relationships across the tax spectrum.- Has the capabilities to deliver responsibilities efficiently.- Captures templates and standards into a repository to build the team’s own knowledge management database.- Ensures adherence to policies and procedures.- Responsible for the continuing professional development of self. – Support internal knowledge management best practices, creating communities of practice both within your own team and across the wider function.- Act as a key tax resource and liaison to the Tax Manager, the Firm Tax Team and where relevant to other areas of the business, building cross-functional relationships as needed.

Education- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Law or a related field required.- Certified Tax Accountant, Certified Practicing Accountant or similar. Language- Bilingual English/Arabic.  Fluency in written and spoken English & Arabic.  Overall Experience- 3+ years of tax experience. – Previous experience with corporate tax, withholding tax, VAT and payroll is required.- An understanding of other taxes would be an advantage.Specific Experience- Must have tax corporate income tax accounting and compliance experience.- Experience in the Professional Services industry in a top tier (Big 4) firm would be an advantage. Knowledge and Skills- Understanding of general/international accounting standards and practices.- High level of analytical and quantitative ability required to perform complex financial and transactional tax and accounting functions and ad hoc reporting functions, including proficiency with computer based modelling and analytic techniques.- Ability to adhere to procedures, controls and policies for functional areas of responsibility.- Organization, thoroughness, eye for detail, time management skills and proactivity required.- Excellent people management skills required.- Strong verbal and written communication skills required to effectively work with professional resources in accounting areas.- Ethical conduct.

PwC firms help organizations and individuals to create the value they’re looking for.
We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with close to 169,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. PwC is the brand under which member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL) operate and provide services. Together, these firms form the global PwC network.
In our 3 key areas of business or Lines of Service Assurance, Tax, and Advisory we work with our clients from business start ups to the worlds leading organizations to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
We help our own people to learn, discover, develop and make a real difference all the way through their working lives. And we have big ambitions to grow.
PwC Middle East Region is part of what we call the Central Cluster and includes the UK, Europe and Africa as well as the Middle East. The region consists of 12 markets – UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Palestine.
PwC has been established in the region for over 40 years, we already employ over 4500 people and we are on course to become the Middle East number one professional service firm. More

Employment: Full Time

Line of ServiceInternal Firm ServicesSpecialismIFS – FinanceManagement LevelManagerJob Description & SummaryA career in Finance, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to help PwC in all aspects of our Finance internal function including financial planning and reporting, data analysis, and assisting leadership with overall strategy. You’ll focus on recording and analysing financial transactions, paying and receiving invoices, maintaining financial statement ledger accounts, and preparing analysis and reconciliations of bills to detect fraud.Our Internal Tax team provides internal services related to financial services, treasury and taxation. As part of our team, you’ll help the team provide a full range of taxation services to PwC related to complex financial reporting, cost management, tax planning, investment management and transaction processing.The Firm Tax team is a part of the PwC Middle East Group’s OneFinance function.  The team supports on all levels of the firm’s tax activity and is organized into three (3) subfunctions: Compliance & Audit; Governance & Risk; and Legal & Advisory.  This role is intended to support the Governance & Risk subfunction.The ME Tax Governance & Risk Manager’s role is comprised of the following:- Manage the ME Group’s compliance requirements as relates to ME and non-ME governance & risk matters;- Manage the monthly tax provision process for the ME Group, including oversight of tax balances and costs;- Prepare the ME Group’s periodic tax reporting requirements;- Escalate material risk or compliance issues to the ME Tax Governance & Risk Subfunction Leader &/or Firm Tax Leader;- Contribute to tax optimisation projects;- Contribute to upholding the tax governance of the ME Group in accordance with the Tax Code of Conduct; – Contribute to managing and mitigating tax risks of the ME Group in accordance with the Tax Code of Conduct; and – Supervise and provide guidance to junior members of the team.Primary duties and responsibilities- Manage the ME Group’s tax governance & risk based compliance process, including:- Prepare the ME Group’s tax compliance and regulatory reporting documentation, including:- Country by Country Reporting (CbCR);- Economic Substance Reporting (ESR);- United States compliance & reporting (FATCA, annual returns, WFP requirements);- Other non-ME compliance & regulatory requirements;- DAC6;- Transfer Pricing.- Prepare the monthly tax provision calculations for the ME Group and actively manage tax balances and costs including providing value add insight into balances and costs;- Prepare the ME Group’s monthly tax reports including insight into KPIs, balances and costs across all taxes;- Provide support on the audit requirements of the ME Group including tax aspects of external statutory audits as well as managing Tax Authority audits (all taxes) with relevant local jurisdictions;- Provide guidance and support on tax governance & risk projects such as automation requirements, costing validations, tax effectiveness and efficiency improvements;- Provide guidance and support on tax optimisation and tax savings projects;- Provide guidance and support in managing tax compliance risks across the ME Group, escalating to the subfunction lead &/or ME Firm Tax Leader where material;- Provide guidance to and supervision of junior members of the team and facilitate country tax specialist support where applicable;- Ensure submission deadlines are adhered to.- Work with the sub function lead and ME Firm Tax Leader and other relevant business stakeholders to develop and implement tax efficient structuring of company operations across the ME Group, ensuring local (country specific) laws are adhered to.- Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and solve complex tax challenges.- Refine tax policy and procedure documentation and ensure proper implementation and adherence across the ME Group.- Develop strong working relationships and interface with all stakeholders across the ME Group.- Conduct internal tax related training across the ME Group.- Be actively involved in and a positive influence on team recruiting, development, training and retention.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities- BA/BS in finance or accounting; CPA, Chartered Accountant or equivalent preferred.- Fluent in Arabic and English.- Minimum 5 years work experience in taxation, preferably with a professional services firm (Big 4), with an exposure to the ME region taxation, and with supervisory experience and strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to relate to many levels of management.- Excellent communication skills in order to communicate effectively internally and externally (with auditors, tax advisors, lawyers etc.).- Time management skills and ability to meet taxation deadlines and resolve urgent issues with auditors.- Consulting skills in order to analyze reports, draw conclusions and make recommendations.- Project management skills.- Excellent leadership skills and ability to manage a team.- High level of understanding across a broad range of tax related matters including compliance and corporate tax optimization.- High level of analytical and quantitative ability required to perform complex financial structuring and accounting and ad hoc reporting functions, including proficiency with computer-based modelling and analytic techniques.

PwC firms help organizations and individuals to create the value they’re looking for.
We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with close to 169,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. PwC is the brand under which member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL) operate and provide services. Together, these firms form the global PwC network.
In our 3 key areas of business or Lines of Service Assurance, Tax, and Advisory we work with our clients from business start ups to the worlds leading organizations to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
We help our own people to learn, discover, develop and make a real difference all the way through their working lives. And we have big ambitions to grow.
PwC Middle East Region is part of what we call the Central Cluster and includes the UK, Europe and Africa as well as the Middle East. The region consists of 12 markets – UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Palestine.
PwC has been established in the region for over 40 years, we already employ over 4500 people and we are on course to become the Middle East number one professional service firm. More