Senior Manager – Tax

Senior Manager – Tax & Financial Reporting Compliance

• Location: Dubai, UAE
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Department: Tax and Financial Reporting
• Reporting To: Founder & CEO / Senior Management

About KLOUDAC

KLOUDAC is a UAE-based professional services firm providing accounting, financial reporting, taxation, audit support, compliance, and business advisory services to a diverse portfolio of SMEs.

Position Overview

The Senior Manager will take overall responsibility for the technical review and delivery of UAE Corporate Tax, VAT, accounting, and financial reporting assignments.

The role requires a technically strong and commercially aware Chartered Accountant with substantial experience in a UAE accounting, auditing, tax, or professional services firm. The successful candidate will manage client portfolios, supervise managers and accountants, strengthen internal review controls, and ensure that clients’ accounting records remain accurate, audit-ready, and tax-compliant.

Key Responsibilities

• UAE Corporate Tax Compliance
• Oversee Corporate Tax registrations, deregistrations, assessments, return preparation, and filing.
• Review Corporate Tax computations, tax adjustments, supporting schedules, and filed returns.
• Ensure the correct application of UAE Corporate Tax legislation, Cabinet Decisions, Ministerial Decisions, and FTA guidance.
• Review tax treatments relating to deductible expenses, related-party transactions, interest limitations, tax losses, exempt income, small business relief, and free-zone taxation.
• Identify Corporate Tax risks and provide technically sound recommendations to clients and management.
• Oversee responses to FTA enquiries, clarification requests, audits, reconsiderations, and penalty matters.
• Monitor changes in UAE tax legislation and ensure that internal procedures and client treatments are updated accordingly.
• VAT and Indirect Tax Compliance
• Oversee VAT registrations, deregistrations, return filings, refund applications, voluntary disclosures, and VAT health checks.
• Review VAT reconciliations, input and output tax treatments, zero-rated and exempt supplies, reverse-charge transactions, and cross-border activities.
• Ensure VAT returns are fully reconciled with the accounting records before filing.
• Identify historical VAT exposures and recommend corrective action.
• Support the team in responding to FTA audits, enquiries, and information requests.
• Financial Reporting and IFRS Compliance
• Review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements prepared under IFRS or IFRS for SMEs.
• Ensure the accuracy of trial balances, general ledgers, reconciliations, supporting schedules, and financial statement disclosures.
• Review complex accounting matters, including revenue recognition, leases, financial instruments, provisions, impairment, related-party transactions, and foreign-currency transactions.
• Ensure clients’ accounting records are complete, properly reconciled, and ready for audit and tax filing.
• Review management reports, balance sheets, profit and loss statements, cash-flow statements, and other financial analyses.
• Coordinate with external auditors and support the timely completion of statutory and non-statutory audits.
• Quality Control and Risk Management
• Establish and maintain strong review procedures for accounting, VAT, Corporate Tax, and financial reporting assignments.
• Ensure maker-checker and approval controls are consistently followed before any submission is made to a client, auditor, authority, or the FTA.
• Conduct final technical reviews of high-risk and complex client assignments.
• Monitor filing deadlines and ensure there are no missed submissions, penalties, or avoidable compliance failures.
• Identify technical, operational, and client-related risks and elevate significant matters to senior management.
• Maintain proper engagement documentation, working papers, review notes, and approval records.
• Team Leadership and Performance Management
• Lead, supervise, and develop tax managers, accounting managers, senior accountants, and other team members.
• Allocate assignments based on capacity, competence, complexity, and deadlines.
• Monitor team productivity, turnaround time, work quality, and client service standards.
• Conduct technical training and coaching on UAE taxation, IFRS, financial reporting, and professional documentation.
• Review team performance and hold managers accountable for their assigned client portfolios.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, development, and retention of technically capable professionals.
• Client Portfolio Management
• Act as a senior point o