VAT Consultant up to Manager, EY, Saudi Arabia

Our indirect tax professionals help clients identify opportunities and mitigate indirect tax risks. They use their deep sector experience and knowledge of different legal and regulatory systems around the world to help clients meet their compliance obligations as well as achieve their business goals and provide pragmatic commercial help so clients improve their day-to-day compliance with indirect tax obligations. This includes improving working capital, reducing errors, reducing costs and ensuring indirect taxes are handled correctly. They advise how indirect taxes such as value added tax (VAT) and customs duty impinge on the client’s global supply chain and financial and accounting systems.

As an Indirect Tax professional you'll join a globally-integrated team helping leading organizations to operate more effectively in moving goods around the world. You'll contribute technical skills to team assignments and advise on ways to implement strategies that help clients manage duty costs. For example, by utilizing free trade agreements, special programs, and transactional structuring. You will be involved in VAT Impact and Readiness assessments for both tax administrations and taxpayers and be closely involved in VAT implementation projects in the GCC region. We are looking for an experienced indirect tax advisor to join our team based in KSA to help drive the indirect tax practice forward.

Job purpose
•To contribute to the efficient and successful delivery of indirect tax services to the client

Your client responsibilities
•Build and maintain tax relationships with clients and provide high levels of client service
•Build relationships both within the firm and externally with clients, identifying opportunities and managing expectations
•Manage the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken
•Responsible for day-to-day delivery of client liaison
•Key member of one of the client service groups providing full tax services to a client portfolio

Your technical responsibilities
•To prepare for the potential introduction of VAT in the GCC and to discuss with clients how this may impact them
•To be part of a team responsible for advisory work on VAT impact assessments, VAT readiness programmes and VAT implementation projects
•To develop and lead VAT training programmes for both internal EY teams and externally to tax administrations and the business community
•To build a deep understanding of the Gulf Corporation Council (“GCC”) Customs Law and its practical application across the GCC member states
•To understand and apply the regional Free Trade Agreements and key customs concepts such as valuation, classification and origin
•To identify and discuss VAT considerations for clients to be aware of in their outbound investments
•To engage with colleagues in overseas offices to deliver VAT advice in respect of global jurisdictions
•To work with internal teams to provide indirect tax expertise for audit and transaction projects

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