Tax Deputy General Manager - Nissan Motor Corporation

Key responsibilities:

• Management of tax planning and compliance initiatives for all taxes in Egypt, UAE and KSA (including income tax, VAT, withholding taxes, stamp tax, Egypt payroll tax).
• Responsibility for maintenance of systems, controls and management reports for VAT and income taxes.
• Monthly reporting of tax provision/expense, effective tax rate and cash tax for all three countries to global consolidation team.
• Ongoing monitoring of profitability levels in the Middle East and interaction with global transfer pricing team as required.
• Preparation of local transfer pricing documentation and defense files for audits.
• Key point of contact with tax authorities in case of audit (many audits in Egypt currently).
• Manage relationship and cost of tax advisors.
• Manage relationship with tax authorities as well as other government agencies involved in the supervision and payment of tax incentives
• Develop capability within accounting and treasury teams to provide support in initial preparation of income tax and VAT returns in UAE and KSA.
• Educate other functions on tax processes and raise awareness for compliance risks
• Support and partner with other in-house teams/departments in ad hoc projects.
• Potential for the role to grow and include more countries in the future.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• At least 12 years’ experience in Tax and Finance with focus on tax advisory, compliance and transfer pricing.
• Chartered Accountant qualification or similar
• Specialist knowledge of taxes and experience dealing with taxes in a multi-jurisdictional environment
• Experience working in multinational organization in a regional tax role
• Experience in IFRS reporting
• Experience with cross-functional projects
  
  

Personal Attributes:

• Fluent English and Arabic
• Strong analytical skills
• Hands-on approach
• Resourceful and ambitious to succeed in a newly-created role
• Open-minded and willing to work in a multi-functional and multi-cultural environment.
• Independent to work without local functional supervision
• Good communication and presentation skills to explain tax issues to non-tax specialists and keep an efficient communication channel with head-office
• Extremely important that communication must be in very clear, concise and plain English

Giza Egypt