Senior Tax Analyst

Job Title: Tax Analyst

Role Purpose

Key Responsibilities

• 1. **Technical support and drafting**
• Analyze ruling applications and supporting documentation to identify key issues.
• Research and interpret tax legislation, regulations, guidance, and relevant case law.
• Draft rulings, issue lists, and technical memoranda under the supervision of the Senior Tax Analyst.
• Prepare concise and well-referenced summaries and comparative analyses.
• 1. **Case execution and collaboration**
• Coordinate with the Case Manager in ensuring completeness, document version control, and adherence to deadlines.
• Liaise with applicants to clarify information requests and coordinate responses for additional documentation.
• Prepare ruling case packs, meeting minutes, and decision logs for Senior Tax Analyst review.
• 1. **Quality and knowledge management**
• Apply approved templates, citations, and style guides consistently.
• Maintain and tag technical materials for future reference in the knowledge base.
• Track similar rulings to promote consistency and identify emerging policy trends.

Essential

• A certified Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field, such as Law, Accounting, Taxation, Finance, Economics, Public Administration.
• Minimum of four years of experience in tax advisory, tax administration, or tax policy.
• Strong understanding of domestic tax laws, regional tax frameworks, and administrative practice.
• Proven analytical and legal interpretation skills and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with legal, policy or audit teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication in Arabic and proficiency in English.

Desirable

• Professional certifications such as CPA, ADIT, or CTA.
• Exposure to project management and information security basics.
• Core competencies
• Analytical rigor and research discipline.
• Clear and concise drafting with accurate citation.
• Proactive communication and effective team collaboration.
• Professional judgment, integrity and confidentiality.
• Reliability and adaptability under pressure and shifting priorities.

Job Title: Senior Tax Analyst

Role Purpose

Key Responsibilities

• 1. **Technical analysis and drafting**
• Lead the technical assessment of ruling applications, ensuring comprehensive analysis of facts and evidence.
• Interpret legislation, executive regulations, guidance, and relevant case law to support conclusions with validation and clear rationale.
• Draft technically sound high quality rulings and supporting memoranda, articulating options, risks, and impact of precedents.
• Identify information gaps and frame targeted clarification questions for applicants.
• 1. **Collaboration and review**
• Work closely with the Case Manager to ensure completeness, accuracy and adherence to case milestones.
• Coordinate with Legal Counsel, Audit, Policy, and Transfer Pricing specialists on cross-functional cases.
• Review, augment and consolidate the draft work produced by Tax Analysts into a single structured package for Legal Counsel and Head of Section feedback.
• 1. **Hearings and stakeholder engagement**
• Participate in technical discussions, hearings and briefings, presenting findings clearly and objectively.
• Lead the preparation and delivery of concise technical briefings to the Head of Section .
• Contribute to controlled publication and redaction where applicable.
• 1. **Quality, governance, and improvement**
• Apply approved templates, citation standards, and documentation protocols consistently.
• Monitor the consistency of treatment across similar rulings to ensure fairness and legal soundness.
• Recommend updates to guidance materials, FAQs, and procedural templates based on case experience and emerging issues.

Essential

• A certified Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field, such as Law, Accounting, Taxation, Finance, Economics, and Public Administration.
• Minimum seven years of experience in tax advisory, tax administration, or tax policy.
• In-depth knowledge of domestic tax laws and related regulations, regional tax frameworks, international standards, and administrative practice.
• Strong legal interpretation and analytical skills with the ability to frame issues logically and persuasively.
• Excellent drafting ability, including clear reasoning and defensible conclusions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in Arabic with proficiency in English.
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with legal, policy or audit teams.

Desirable

• CPA, ADIT, CTA, or an equivalent.
• Core competencies
• Technical depth with pragmatic judgment.
• Structured thinking and precision in drafting.
• Coaching and mentoring of junior staff.
• Integrity, confidentiality, and professional independence.
• Effective time management and Service Level Agreement discipline.