Client Name: Confidential
Reporting To: Group CFO / Head of Finance

ABOUT THE BLACK BOX TALENT (TBBT)

The Black Box Talent (TBBT) is a talent acquisition and executive search firm helping organizations identify, attract, and hire high-quality professionals across diverse industries and geographies.

We partner closely with our clients to understand their business, culture, and hiring requirements, enabling us to deliver targeted, relevant, and quality talent for critical positions.

Our approach combines industry-focused recruitment expertise, strong candidate networks, structured sourcing, and personalized talent solutions to support organizations in building high-performing teams.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Tax Manager will lead and manage all direct and indirect tax matters for a UAE corporate office, ensuring full compliance with UAE VAT, Corporate Tax, Transfer Pricing, and international tax regulations, while acting as a strategic tax advisor to finance and business teams.

The ideal candidate will bring strong UAE tax technical expertise, hands-on compliance experience, and the ability to operate effectively within a group structure with multinational operations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• VAT Management: Prepare, review, and file VAT returns for UAE entities; ensure correct VAT treatment, GL reconciliations, input tax recovery, refunds, health checks, and compliance with VAT law.
• Corporate Tax Compliance: Lead UAE Corporate Tax returns, taxable income calculations, tax adjustments, payments, provisions, deferred tax under IFRS, and tax disclosures.
• Transfer Pricing: Prepare Local File and Master File, ensure arm’s-length compliance, conduct benchmarking, and support intercompany agreements and pricing structures.
• FTA Audit & E-Invoicing: Lead FTA audits and responses, maintain audit readiness, and manage E-invoicing implementation with ERP/IT teams and vendors.
• Tax Advisory & Optimization: Advise finance and business teams on tax implications, contracts, transactions, restructuring, cross-border activities, and tax-efficient structures.
• ERP & Automation: Work with ERP teams on tax configuration, mappings, reporting, automated tax controls, and process improvements.
• Risk & Governance: Identify and mitigate tax risks, maintain the tax compliance calendar, develop tax policies/SOPs, and strengthen internal controls.
• Group & External Coordination: Coordinate UAE and international tax matters with group finance teams and liaise with external tax advisors and auditors when required.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

• Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) or MBA Finance with relevant tax certifications – mandatory.
• Minimum 6–8 years of total experience, including 4–5 years of UAE tax experience.
• Hands-on exposure to VAT, Corporate Tax, Transfer Pricing, and FTA audits.
• Experience within a multinational or group structure is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of UAE VAT and Corporate Tax laws.
• Practical experience in Transfer Pricing documentation.
• Strong tax accounting knowledge under IFRS.
• ERP experience with SAP, Oracle, or equivalent.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple entities.
• High attention to detail and a strong compliance-focused mindset.