Tax & Legal Services - Tax - Transfer Pricing - Manager

Description

At PwC, we measure success by our ability to create the value that our clients and our people are looking for. Our reputation lies in building lasting relationships with our clients and a focus on delivering value in all we do. We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with more than 236,000 people who are committed to delivering world-class capabilities and quality in assurance, tax and advisory services.

Established in the region for 40 years, PwC Middle East employs over 4,200 people across 12 countries. Complementing our depth of industry expertise and breadth of skills is our sound knowledge of local business environments across the Middle East region. Our tailored solutions help our clients meet the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the Middle East market and beyond.

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Regional Transfer Pricing practice, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients throughout the Middle East develop compliant, tax efficient structures that help advance their business goals. You’ll focus on all aspects of documentation planning, dispute resolution, and advance pricing agreements.

Inter-company transactions across borders are growing rapidly and are becoming much more complex. Compliance with the differing requirements of multiple overlapping tax jurisdictions is a complicated and time-consuming task. As a member of the Transfer Pricing Team, you will work on all aspects of intercompany pricing arrangements between related business entities, including transfers of intellectual property; transfers of tangible goods; services and loans and other financing transactions.

Thorough knowledge of developing global tax minimization strategies; maintaining close cooperation between subject matter experts in economic analysis, tax law, and accounting; inter-company pricing arrangements between related business entities including transfers of intellectual property, transfers of tangible goods, services & loans and other financing transactions.

Considerable knowledge in identifying and assessing clients cross-border inter-company transactions; developing local country transfer pricing documentation, strategizing on local-country revenue authority transfer pricing audits, performing global planning for continuous optimization of clients existing and new US-to-foreign and foreign-to-foreign inter-company transactions as well as special projects related to clients restructuring and acquisitions.
Job Description:

• Foreign rules, inter-company pricing arrangements, international taxation, and cross-border inter-company transactions; developing local country transfer pricing documentation; global planning for continuous optimization of clients existing and foreign-to-foreign inter-company transactions, as well as special projects related to clients restructuring, acquisitions and divestitures, statistical tools and modeling methodologies.
• Considerable experience identifying and addressing client needs: building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships and community involvement; communicating value propositions; managing resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collections; and preparing and/or coordinating complex written and verbal materials.
• Work primarily on private equity clients, as well as working on supply chain planning (VCT) projects within the O&G industry for Middle Eastern based O&G companies operating outbound into Asia, EMEIA, and the Americas.
• Assist and advise clients on the Transfer Pricing in the UAE and wider Middle East region. Prepare Transfer Pricing training presentations aimed at external and internal audiences
• You should also have an awareness of PwC services and experience in working as part of a team, understanding personal and team roles and building solid relationships with team members.
• Ability to develop and maintain existing internal and client relationships and help build new relationships

Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant subject i.e. Finance, Economics, LLB etc. A minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience in Transfer Pricing within a developed market Deep knowledge of financial transactions within Transfer Pricing Fluent in written and spoken English Dealing with and managing client relationships Seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation Maintaining existing client relationships as well as developing new business

Desirable requirements:

• TP experience in the Oil & Gas, Sovereign Wealth Fund and Financial services space is highly desirable.
• Post-graduate degree or relevant professional qualification
• Fluency in Arabic is desired
• Exposure to/ experience working in the Middle East

Travel Requirements 

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship? 

Yes

Government Clearance Required? 

Yes

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