Consultant – Corporate Tax

Department: Tax

Designation: Consultant

Reports to: Assistant Manager/Manager/Senior Manager – depends on projects

Typical Experience/Qualifications

Recognized Degree and/or relevant Postgraduate/Professional Qualification in Accounting, Tax, Business, Economics or Law related fields.

3+ years of relevant experience in the corporate tax compliance and/or tax advisory space. Experience working for a Big 4 accounting firm is an added advantage.

Job Role And Responsibilities

• Assisting and advising clients (including other KPMG practices and offices) in connection with domestic Corporate Tax and international tax issues.
• Delivers high quality tax engagements for assistant manager/manager/senior manager review in a timely manner
• Starts to build relationships with other functions and network offices, as well as lawyers investment managers and other relevant external contact network
• Co-ordinates with other offices in a multi-office engagement, and reviews inputs received from such offices such that the overall deliverable can be provided to senior management for review in a timely manner
• Is aware of and ensures that risk processes are adhered to at all times; consults internally and with the risk team for engagement and or client processes that deviate from the standard
• Maintaining relations with clients

Relevant Skills And Behaviors

Core and technical skills

• In-depth knowledge of tax principles
• Knowledge of tax accounting
• Build experience in business development, client relationship and client management
• You will need strong analytical skills, commercial awareness and a flexible approach, combined with the ability to work as part of a number of client teams simultaneously.
• Assist superiors in identifying targets; assist in preparing action plan for developing the client and implementation of the plan able to identify opportunities for cross selling work of other functions
• Build risk management knowledge and application including documentation and learn to identify issues that need to be escalated for consideration to managers
• Develop report writing skills including ability to write tax reports and opinions
• Develop project management skills including coordinating with multiple teams across various jurisdictions and written communication skills (report writing, presentations)

Person Specifications

• Good academic record
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (report writing, presentations)
• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills

Linguistic Skills

• Fluent English – Verbal & written, Arabic skills are an added advantage