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Grant Thornton UAE Manager - Indirect Tax (VAT) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Our VAT team helps manage clients' global indirect tax risks which, as transactional taxes, can quickly become big liabilities. We help our clients understand their indirect tax position, better manage their tax risk, we help improve their cash flow and find efficiencies through better processes, systems and controls.

Job Description:

As a Manager in VAT you will assist in proactively growing the VAT practice and provide a specialist and comprehensive VAT advisory service to all business clients to minimise their VAT liabilities and compliance issues, and to identify tax planning opportunities. Assume a leading role in the development of the VAT team, working alongside the management team to grow the business through marketing events, and assisting with the expansion of the VAT client base.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Build rapport with the individual client and develop a clear and detailed understanding of the business and client expectations

  • Meet client demands, keeping them up to date with progress and engenders trust and respect

  • Deal with a wide range of technical issues and client situations

  • Provide intelligent and creative solutions to client tax issues both reactively and proactively

  • Write high quality tax reports, professionally presented documents, requiring minimal input from directors or partners

  • Responsible for planning and performing VAT consultancy assignments

  • Prepare and files ruling requests on behalf of our clients

  • Act as a first point of contact on specific projects for any queries from the business

  • Demonstrate the ability to analyse potential solutions and make recommendations accordingly

Passionate about supporting, advising and helping businesses achieve their potential, you'll be someone who wants to make a difference and shape your career. You'll have strong technical skills and experience of providing clients with quality services.

You should be commercially focused with the ability to deliver innovative solutions. You should be focused on self-development as well as having the desire to coach, mentor and develop your colleagues. You must also share our CLEARR values – Collaboration, Leadership, Excellence, Agility, Respect and Responsibility.

We're looking for people who have a strong connection with and share our core beliefs:

  • Profit with a purpose that leads to a sustainable business

  • We create sustainable value for our clients

  • We are better together

  • Our CLEARR values underpin all we do

  • We never compromise on quality

Education, experience and qualifications:

  • You'll have gained experience working within a professional services environment

  • You'll possess working knowledge of tax legislation

  • You'll have achieved your ACA/CTA qualification

  • You'll have reviewed work and supervised staff in a tax environment

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