E-Invoicing Project Manager

About This Role

We have partnered with a client who are seeking an experienced E-Invoicing Project Manager to lead and oversee the successful delivery of the UAE and Oman e-invoicing programs. This role requires end-to-end delivery from regulatory discovery, solution selection, ERP integrations to testing, rollout and post go-live compliance, ensuring strong financial governance and full regulatory compliance across Finance, Tax, Group Tech, and external vendors. The ideal candidate will bring exceptional leadership skills and a track record in managing complex e-invoicing initiatives, driving process standardization, streamlining invoicing operations, and enabling operational excellence. This position is suited for a Project Manager who has successfully delivered e-invoicing and regulatory compliance programs within the GCC (e.g., KSA ZATCA, UAE, Egypt) and is comfortable operating in a complex, high-stakeholder corporate environments.

Program & Project Leadership

• Lead end-to-end delivery of GCC e-Invoicing implementations, including scope definition, discovery, estimation, planning, execution, and go-live
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops (Finance, Tax, IT, Operations, Vendors) to define requirements, dependencies, assumptions, and delivery approach
• Own the full e-invoicing program, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and compliant with regulatory mandates

Regulatory & Compliance Delivery

Drive compliance with UAE & Oman e-Invoicing regulations (e.g., ZATCA Phase 1 & 2, country-specific mandates, archiving, reporting, and clearance requirements).

• Ensure alignment between business processes, tax requirements, and technical solutions
• Manage regulatory changes, clarifications, and authority communications, ensuring timely impact assessment and delivery adjustments

Financial & Resource Management

• Quantify and manage project costs, including resources, vendor spend, risk contingency, and forecast variance
• Own project budget, including approvals, tracking, forecasting, and variance reporting
• Manage resource planning across internal teams and external vendors, ensuring optimal utilization and prioritization

Governance & Executive Communication

• Establish and lead program governance, including SteerCo, executive updates, and decision forums
• Prepare and present high-level and detailed plans, milestones, risks, financials, and progress updates to senior leadership (Senior Managers, Directors, VPs, C-level)
• Provide regular status reporting, including delivery progress, risks/issues, budget burn, and forecast

Risk, Issue & Change Management

• Proactively identify, manage, and escalate key risks and issues, ensuring timely mitigation
• Prevent scope creep by enforcing formal change control, impact assessment, and executive approvals
• Maintain clear documentation of scope, assumptions, dependencies, and change history

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Act as the primary liaison across Finance, Tax, Technology, Operations, Release Management, and external vendors
• Lead and govern vendor delivery, ensuring contractual scope, quality, timelines, and commercial alignment
• Negotiate win-win outcomes with internal and external stakeholders

Requirements

• 7+ years' project management experience; 3+ years leading tax/e‑invoicing, finance transformation, ERP or compliance projects.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, IT, Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience with integrations to ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics or similar) and middleware/APIs.
• Strong understanding of e‑invoicing concepts, invoice standards (XML/UBL/JSON), digital signatures and exchange flows.
• Hands‑on experience with test planning, data mapping, reconciliation and production cutovers.
• Demonstrated stakeholder management with Finance, Tax, IT and external regulators/vendors
• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum or equivalent project management certification.
• Experience working with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models
• Comfortable leading large, multidisciplinary teams
• Excellent English communication skills. Arabic is an added advantage.
• Willingness to travel between UAE and Oman as required