Senior Tax Associate - Chalhoub Group

What You Will Be Doing

The Senior Tax Associate will embed a culture of compliance in the Group’s commercial and finance operations

Organizational

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure Group regulatory compliance department’s policies, processes and standard operating procedures are carried out appropriately by accounting and commercial departments

Operational

• Advise the business in structuring transactions through tax technical analysis and providing solutions that are compliant with tax regulations
• Performing VAT health checks, VAT compliance procedures, issues identification and resolution, and monthly/quarterly VAT return filing covering the Group’s operations.
• Under the supervision of the tax manager, ensure that regulatory compliance department objectives are met
• Escalate complex problems to the relevant person to ensure case/issue is closed efficiently and in a timely manner.
• Perform procedures to ensure core accounting processes of AP, AR, treasury etc. are compliant with VAT / tax / other policies and guidelines set by the Group.
• Review transactions and documents to ensure compliance with VAT / tax / other regulations and escalate incorrect treatments
• Demonstrate good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Represent the Group in communications with tax authorities when required during tax inspections and / or audits.
• VAT and tax return preparation and filing.
• Have good accounting knowledge to support with VAT reconciliations with accounting records.
• Demonstrate good organizational and project management skills.
• Work on projects assigned by tax manager to improve compliance scorecard of the Group companies .

What You'll Need To Succeed

• Deep working knowledge of Egypt Tax preferably gained in a big 4 professional services firm.
• A degree/qualification in accounting and/or tax (ADIT, CTA, ACCA, CA, CPA)
• Fluent in English with Min 4 years experience working in the tax compliance and advisory department in a professional services firm.