Taxation Head

Your Role

The purpose of this job is to support development and implementation of tax policy and strategy and be responsible for ensuring tax compliance of direct tax, indirect tax, transfer pricing and international tax obligations for all legal entities in Egypt.

A Typical Day

·                  Plan, facilitate and manage the preparation and review of company all types of taxes, be responsible for the accurate, timely filing of all tax forms for all legal entities in Egypt; maintains tax records as well as returns, reports and other related materials.

·                  Ensure all monthly/ quarterly/ annually tax reporting and tax provisions are submitted on time accurately.

·                  Maintain effective control procedures over all aspects of the tax process.; find and implement opportunities for process improvement in company tax procedures.

·                  Act as tax business partner to the commercial teams in relation to tax advisory, planning and governance, to develop and implement strategic tax planning for the company.

·                  Work closely with larger finance team to secure company’s position.

·                  Supervise and manage all types of tax audits with external or internal parties and communicate with tax authority to defend the tax position and ensuring smooth tax audit process.

·                  Monitor legislative and regulatory tax law developments, communicate its impact on our business and financial statements, and work to create strategies to capitalize on changes to taxation legislation.

·                  Optimise capital and legal structure for the group operations in Egypt. Coordinate and prepare transfer pricing documentations for the legal entities to ensure compliance of transfer pricing regulations.

• Responsible for tax advisory and international tax matters, including but not limited to withholding taxes, treaty applications and etc.

• Develop the tax organization in Egypt, organize training and learning with finance and non-finance team.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or other related majors. CPA/Masters/related degree in taxation is preferred.

·        10+ year of relevant experience with extensive corporate tax knowledge in Multinational company and/or accounting firm.

• Excellent technical tax knowledge in tax code, compliance and procedures for corporations, direct experience with a variety of tax operations and ability to drive process improvements.

• Collaborator with excellent interpersonal communication skills to work with people across functions and culture.

·        Strong ability to utilize project management and accounting best practices to organize and prioritize tasks and the tasks of other tax team members.

·        Initiative-taker with strong leadership and influencing skills to engage and develop tax team.

·        Strong accounting, analytical, and research skills.

·        Fluent written and spoken English communications skills to communicate with regional and global team within the group.

·        Strong computer skills with drive for using technology as an enabler. Proficiency in Microsoft applications viz. Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. Knowledge of Oracle and/or SAP would be an added advantage.

Core Competencies

• Be a forward-thinker with impressive understanding of business needs and an outcome-focused approach.

• Both reactive and initiative-taking, works efficiently and flexibly to deliver results.

• With an eye for detail and the ability to interpret complex data and translate this into meaningful, useful information that leads to informed decision-making.

• Builds trust, good working relationships both inside and outside the organization and communicate effectively with them for the organization’s advantage.

• Reacts positively to new unknown or ambiguous situations and adapts accordingly and change priorities with ease.