Tax Senior Manager - Dubai

CharteredPartners is seeking a Tax Senior Manager to join a growing accounting firm in Dubai. The successful candidate will manage corporate tax compliance and advisory engagements end to end, acting as the principal day-to-day contact for clients and supervising the wider team as the UAE tax landscape continues to mature.

This is a hands-on delivery and supervision role spanning the newly introduced UAE Corporate Tax regime, VAT and free-zone considerations, often supporting groups that are building their tax functions for the first time. Specific qualifications, regulatory fluency and technical breadth are detailed in the sections that follow.

Confidential Client. Applying to this position means that you are interested to have an initial confidential discussion about how we can help you to identify and join a new accounting-firm practice. With your authorisation we will exclusively run the entire application and recruitment process for you, keeping you apprised at every step.

With over 30 years' combined experience of helping the most talented accounting, audit, tax and advisory professionals to make safe, well-judged moves into rewarding new roles, we have the experience, network and ability to help you.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage corporate tax compliance engagements end to end, overseeing registrations, computations and FTA filings to deadline.
• Deliver practical advisory work under the UAE Corporate Tax regime at 9% and VAT at 5%.
• Support transfer pricing documentation aligned to OECD principles, including master and local files.
• Advise on free-zone considerations, including the Qualifying Free Zone Person (QFZP) 0% regime and economic substance requirements.
• Act as the principal day-to-day client contact, managing timelines, queries and expectations.
• Supervise, review and develop managers and junior staff, providing technical coaching and quality control.
• Assist with the assessment of Pillar Two obligations under director and partner direction.
• Support engagement economics through budgeting, billing and work-in-progress management.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• A recognised professional accounting or tax qualification (such as ACA, ACCA, CTA or equivalent).
• Solid post-qualification experience in corporate tax, with GCC, UAE or comparable international exposure.
• Working knowledge of the UAE Corporate Tax regime and FTA administration.
• Practical familiarity with VAT at 5% and its interaction with corporate tax compliance.
• Experience managing tax compliance cycles and authority correspondence.
• Understanding of transfer pricing documentation requirements under OECD-aligned rules.
• Awareness of free-zone structures, the QFZP 0% regime and economic substance.
• Proven ability to manage multiple engagements concurrently while maintaining technical quality.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with client stakeholders.
• Experience supervising and reviewing the work of junior team members.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting groups establishing tax functions in a newly taxed environment.
• Exposure to clients across multiple sectors and ownership structures.
• Familiarity with FTA registration, filing and clarification processes.
• Involvement in transfer pricing documentation projects.
• A track record of contributing to proposals and practice development.
• Experience coaching and mentoring within a structured review framework.

Compensation

Competitive package commensurate with seniority and experience, including base, performance-based bonus, long-term incentives and (where applicable) partner-track participation.

Next Steps

This opportunity is open to candidates who hold or can obtain the right to work in the United Arab Emirates and who match the above criteria. Please apply to receive prompt contact from an experienced and specialist accounting-firm recruitment consultant.

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