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Microsoft maintains a global tax planning and compliance strategy that is administered and coordinated at the Microsoft Corporate level. This set-up assures proper coordination and implementation of appropriate policies and procedures.
The role of Stat &Tax for United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is to take ownership of our statutory and tax responsibilities across the two subsidiaries and working closely with Corp Tax Team to have the alignment on Tax strategy.
This role will have engagement across the MEA Stat & Tax community.
Responsibilities
Statutory Accounting Integrity and Accuracy
- Accountable for legal entity P&L and balance sheet integrity.
- Accountable for accurate stat records and timely annual financial statements in compliance with US GAAP, local GAAP and local statutory matters across all statutory entities incl. data center legal entity
- Identify all non-standard transactions (cross-charges, accruals, commission changes etc.) and review their statutory implications before any decision to proceed.
- Responsible for reviewing accounting policy changes and their statutory and tax implications before any decision to proceed.
- Responsible for managing the statutory risk profile of the local subsidiary and escalating risks to Corp Accounting according to policy.
- Responsible for identifying opportunities to standardize and automate statutory processes where possible, reducing manual workloads and ensuring effective use of resources.
Tax Compliance and Advisory
- Accountable for accurate and timely tax filings (where not in scope for Tax Team).
- Accountable for tax payments and forecasting.
- Support invoicing and/or accounting changes to tax or local business models (in conjunction with the Tax team).
- Manage audits from local tax authorities and other government agencies (in conjunction with Tax team).
- Oversee that local transfer pricing documentation and reporting obligations are complied with in line with local regulations.
- Responsible for managing the tax risk profile of the local subsidiary and escalating risks to the Tax team.
- Responsible for identifying opportunities to standardize and automate tax processes where possible, in partnership with the International Tax Compliance team, reducing manual workloads and ensuring effective use of resources.
Stakeholder Management
- Ensure the best ROI from key contributors (including OneFinance, FinOps, Ops Finance etc.) with high level oversight of Stat & Tax work
- Accountable for annual review of scope of work and DTP for shared service providers.
- Manage external auditor relationship (with involvement from the COE Controller).
- Manage external advisor relationship in relation to statutory accounting and tax compliance and advisory.
- Manage the ongoing relationship with local tax authorities and other government agencies.
Other Statutory Reporting and Advisory
- Cash Management and forecasting.
- Land global and local projects, with proper statutory accounting infrastructure and registration, and in compliance with local tax regulations & MS global processes. Provide support for the local business operations on the implementation of these projects.
- Assist with creation and drive closure of statutory entities as required, (partnering with CELA) and ensure finance readiness of legal entities in country.
Responsible for other government reporting obligations for the subsidiary (e.g., statistical surveys, data queries, bank reporting, inspections, subsidy, and grant applications etc).
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
- OR Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
- OR equivalent experience
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Association of Certified Chartered Accountant (ACCA) or equivalent certification.
- Experience with statutory laws, accounting policies, tax laws, etc. particularly those relevant for multinational companies, e.g., transfer pricing, online business tax compliance
- Experience in handling outsourced partners and working with outsourcing models.
- Strong leadership, communication, influencing and business partnership capabilities.
- Experience working in multi-national complex organizations.
- Demonstrated people management capabilities managing remote, diverse, multi-cultural teams.
- Ability to work at multiple altitudes, from operational details to strategy definition.
- Arabic language fluency (reading / speaking) is a plus when engaging with local statutory authorities.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
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