Description
Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 8,000 people in 12 countries across the region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Our regional team operates across the Middle East bringing international experience delivered within the context of the region and its culture. We can bring the collective knowledge and experience of more than 328,000 people across the entire global PwC network in advisory, assurance and tax to help you find the value you are looking for.
Job Description & Summary
At PwC, we are a community of solvers, where every individual plays an important role in shaping the future of our firm, clients and communities. We seek individuals who excel in their roles and embody our core behaviors, working together to create a better tomorrow. Our commitment to Trusted Leadership and Distinctive Outcomes, from our PwC Professional framework, defines how we deliver on our purpose and strategy, serving our clients and living our values in every interaction. Trusted Leadership emphasizes building trust, delivering sustained outcomes, and demonstrating courage and honesty, especially during challenging times. Distinctive Outcomes focus on excellence, collaboration, and inclusiveness, ensuring our work adds value, meaning, and purpose. By integrating these principles into our daily operations, we ensure that our efforts are aligned with our values and objectives. Thus, we are looking for candidates who are self-aware, collaborative, committed to continuous learning, and dedicated to delivering quality and integrity.
A career in our Indirect Tax practice within Tax & Legal Services will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet and manage their VAT obligations across unique but ever-changing VAT specialties. You'll advise clients on their local and overseas VAT affairs, acting as a strategic consultant in business analysis, managing VAT technical projects, VAT disputes, VAT strategy, and more of our VAT solutions and offerings.
Job Description
To truly stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this, we have the Evolved PwC Professional—our global leadership development framework. It provides us with a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies, and career paths, offering transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As a VAT Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a diverse, inclusive team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex international business issues from strategy to execution across different industries such as Consumer Markets, Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), Real Estate, Financial Services, Healthcare and Transportation & Logistics.
Skills and responsibilities required include but are not limited to:
- Be proactive and accountable, inspiring others through innovation, creativity, and effective teamwork.
- Apply critical thinking to bring structure and clarity to complex or unstructured problems.
- Delegate effectively, providing team members with challenging opportunities and coaching them to achieve results.
- Develop self-awareness by utilizing feedback and reflection to recognize personal strengths and address areas for improvement.
- Ensure quality and accuracy by thoroughly reviewing your own work and that of others for relevance and excellence.
- Leverage a broad range of tools and techniques to extract meaningful insights from current industry or sector trends.
- Make informed decisions on tool selection, understanding when and how to apply available resources and explaining your choices.
- Seek and embrace diverse experiences by pursuing opportunities that expose you to different situations, environments, and perspectives.
- Communicate clearly and effectively, using structured and straightforward language to influence and connect with others.
- Adapt behavior to build strong relationships, accurately reading situations to foster high-quality connections.
- Uphold ethical standards, consistently adhering to the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
Basic Job Requirements
- Bachelor or Master's Degree in Taxation, Law, Economics, Commerce or a related field (qualifications are advantageous but not mandatory)
- Minimum of 3 years work experience in tax or other related tax/legal services
- Fluency in English is required, knowledge of Arabic is a plus.
Optional Skills
Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Business Tax, Communication, Corporate Tax Planning, Creativity, Customs Brokerage, Customs Regulations, Customs Tariffs, Customs Valuation, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Inclusion, Indirect Tax, Indirect Tax Controversies, Input Value Added Tax (VAT), Intellectual Curiosity, International Taxation, Learning Agility, Optimism, Self-Awareness, Tax Accounting {+ 12 more}
Travel Requirements
Not Specified
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
Yes
Government Clearance Required?
Yes
For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.
