Senior Manager - Indirect Tax (VAT)- EY Bahrain

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 Senior Manager, you'll join a globally-integrated team helping leading organizations to operate more effectively in moving goods around the world. You'll combine your technical skills and practical experience across industries and geographies to provide tailored advice to clients. This will include identifying risk areas and sustainable planning opportunities for indirect taxes throughout the tax life cycle. 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.

You'll also help clients proactively manage the risks of global trade, improve international trade compliance and increase supply chain effectiveness. Your proactive, pragmatic and integrated strategies will help our clients to achieve their potential in today's global environment.

Job purpose

•To lead the efficient and successful delivery of indirect tax services to the clients

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

•Key member of one of the client service groups providing full tax services to a client portfolio

•Work effectively as a member of a worldwide network of professional advisors, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress

•Collaborate with a team of customs and international trade professionals to combine diverse cross-border transaction experience with local tax knowledge across a broad spectrum of industries

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”) VAT Framework Agreement Law and its practical application across the GCC member states with particular emphasis on an EU intra state model that will apply in the GCC

•To identify and discuss VAT considerations for clients to be aware of in their outbound investments