Executive - Tax

Job description / Role

About Us:
Apparel Group, a prominent retail company based in Dubai, is seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team as an Executive - Tax. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the financial success of our organization by managing various aspects of tax compliance and strategy.

Roles & Responsibilities:
As an Executive - Tax at Apparel Group, you will be responsible for the following:

- Implementation of Newly Introduced Tax Streams: Lead the implementation of recently introduced tax streams in local legislation, including Corporate taxes and Transfer Pricing, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Affiliate Tax Processes: Execute and oversee affiliate tax processes, leveraging your experience to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Preparation of TP Support Files: Prepare and maintain Transfer Pricing (TP) Support files, adhering to established standards and regulations.
- Tax Return Preparation and Filing: Take ownership of tax return preparation, covering Corporate Income Tax (CIT), Value Added Tax (VAT), and Withholding Tax (WHT), and ensure timely and accurate filing.
- Obligation Compliance: Guarantee the timely and accurate filing of all tax obligations in the respective markets, overseeing the entire process from preparation to submission.
- Payment Management: Oversee the timely payment and/or refund of all tax obligations to maintain financial compliance.
- Legislation Awareness: Stay up-to-date with relevant tax legislation in the region, providing timely updates and recommendations to ensure compliance.

We are seeking candidates with the following qualifications and experience:

- Professional Qualification: Hold a professional qualification as a Qualified Chartered Accountant from India
- Experience: Possess 1-2 years of direct tax experience in a multinational group and matrix-reporting environment.
- Regional Expertise: Candidates from the GCC region following the same tax regime are preferred.
- System Changes and Implementation: Ability to contribute to system changes and implementation from a tax perspective.

About the Company

The Apparel Group is a global fashion and lifestyle brand conglomerate residing on the crossroads of a modern economy - Dubai, UAE. The mercurial growth in the last 17 years has been by acquiring a host of world class fashion labels from around the world - Nine West, Tommy Hilfiger, Kenneth Cole, Aldo & Tim Hortons just to name a few.

Today the group caters to thousands of eager shoppers through its over 1530 stores, 75 International brands and employing 12,000 multi cultural staff in over 4 continents. Apparel believes in turning dreams in to reality and we give everyone - our customers, our stakeholders, our employees - an equal opportunity to do so.

Apparel group has carved its strong presence not only in the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia but opened thriving gateways to market in India, South Africa, Poland, Singapore, Jordan, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. Additionally, clear strategies are in place to enter emerging markets such as Hungary, Pakistan, Egypt and Philippines.