Assistant Manager / - Strategic Support Dubai jobs at Ey in Kuwait

MENA – Tax Policy & Controversy, Manager

The role involves leading client engagements on complex tax policy developments, managing tax disputes, and shaping strategies to help organizations navigate a rapidly evolving regulatory environment. As a manager, you will be responsible for project delivery, client relationship management, and team leadership, while also contributing to the growth and development of the practice.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead client engagements on tax policy and controversy matters, ensuring delivery of high-quality, timely advice.
• Advise multinational clients on legislative and regulatory changes impacting their tax positions and business operations.
• Manage tax controversy cases, including audits, disputes, and negotiations with tax authorities.
• Draft and review technical position papers, policy submissions, and advocacy materials.
• Provide strategic insights on global tax developments, including OECD initiatives, Pillar One and Two, and cross-border tax measures.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, regulators, and industry stakeholders.
• Manage engagement teams, mentor junior staff, and foster a collaborative, high-performance culture.

To qualify for the role

• Bachelor’s degree in law, Taxation, Economics, Accounting, or related field; advanced degree (LLM, master’s in taxation or equivalent) preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience in tax policy, controversy working for a Big 4, law firm, government, multinational corporation.
• Strong understanding of domestic and international tax regimes, audit practices, and dispute resolution frameworks.
• Proven track record in managing client relationships and delivering complex tax projects.
• Excellent research, analytical, and problem-solving skills with strong business acumen.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Direct experience engaging with tax authorities and policymakers.
• Deep knowledge of OECD tax reform initiatives, cross-border tax policies, and dispute resolution mechanisms.
• Experience in public policy advocacy, litigation support, or arbitration.
• Established network within the tax, regulatory, or policy community.

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Your key responsibilities

You will combine strong technical skills with practical commercial, legislative and industry knowledge to lead a team in providing tax services. You will be responsible for a team to help manage our clients’ compliance and reporting needs. You will establish, maintain and strengthen valued internal and external relationships and ensure that the services delivered to clients is of the highest quality.

You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of client engagements, monitor progress and deliverables, put in place the necessary standardized processes, anticipate and identify risks, escalate issues as appropriate and drive performance-improvement solutions. You will supervise high performing teams and build a positive learning culture, coaching and counseling junior team members to help them develop. You will also be responsible for ensuring adherence to our Tax Quality guidelines.

Skills and attributes for success

If you are an excellent communicator and detail-oriented professional with a strong track record of management experience who is comfortable working across borders with a wide network of people and with large amounts of data, you will be perfect for the role.

Qualification and Experience

• A bachelor's degree with strong academic credentials in accounting, business, finance, taxation or any related essential fields.
• MBA, master’s or another related advanced degree and/or professional qualifications e.g. CA, CPA, ACCA, CTA, ADIT or equivalent qualification.
• A very strong knowledge and minimum of 4 years of experience in domestic and international tax rules/regulations, developments etc., ideally within a large professional services company or similar environment. A very strong background in tax accounting and tax auditing, ideally within a large professional services company or similar environment.
• A strong track record of managerial, organizational and project management experience.

Ideally, you will also

• Have Experience of dealing with multinational clients and ability to work in multi-cultural environment. In-depth commercial, legislative and industry knowledge.

Senior Manager, IFRS Professional Practice, Kuwait and Qatar

Join IFRS Professional Practice within Assurance and you will provide technical consultation to our offices within MENA to address the accounting and financial reporting challenges our engagement teams face while dealing with audit and accounting advisory engagements.

Your key responsibilities

IFRS Professional Practice Senior Manager work closely with all EY offices in the MENA region including Professional practice colleagues and engagement teams. You will assist partners and engagement teams in researching and resolving IFRS technical consultations and queries. As Senior manager you will be involved in developing thought leadership for an external audience and internal guidance for our engagement teams on accounting and financial reporting matters.

You will provide IFRS technical support on a consultative basis to EY offices in MENA for reaching conclusions on complex IFRS matters while preparing internal guidance arising from consultations. Moreover, you will also prepare timely updates of our research, learning materials, and tools for accounting consideration while participating in thought leadership for new and emerging accounting and financial reporting issues, including standard setter projects and industry-specific content.

Furthermore, you will be responsible for liaising with EY Global and EMEIA IFRS Professional Practices as necessary and ddelivering training as and when technical specialisation is required. You will also work on developing our comment letters on proposed standards that provide input to the IASB and will provide support on corporate treasury and financial accounting advisory engagements.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• At least 8 years of external audit experience (including at least one year as Senior Manager) at a big 4 public accounting firm
• A degree in accounting, finance or related field
• CA/CPA/ACCA certification
• Strong technical knowledge of IFRS
• A strong desire to broaden your technical skills
• Strong verbal communication, presentation and writing skills
• Ability and comfort in researching accounting and auditing inquiries and analyzing emerging issues relating to accounting standards and industry practices
• Excellent managerial and organizational skills
• A dedication to teamwork and leadership
• Integrity within a professional environment

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Your key responsibilities

You'll play a key role throughout the project lifecycle, translating data into insights and building strong client relationships across industries. You'll also lead multiple transfer pricing engagements and contribute to high-quality tax planning services.

Skills and attributes for success

You'll apply advanced transfer pricing and economic concepts to solve client challenges, prepare documentation, support audits, model financial outcomes, and collaborate globally to deliver integrated, innovative solutions.

Qualifications & Experience

• A bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Economics, Management, Tax, Law or another relevant discipline and a minimum of 5 years of related work experience
• A master’s degree or a professional qualification such as CPA, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), American Society of Appraiser's Business Valuation Certification or Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to work at a fast-paced, often with shifting responsibilities.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Proficiency in Arabic
• A consistent record of excellence in a professional services environment
• Existing transfer pricing experience

Your key responsibilities

You’ll likely balance your time between both project management and analytics. We’ll also look to you to support with reaching out to multiple people at all levels of the organisation across geographies to gather required information as well as to create leadership presentations.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Strong data analytics and Excel skills (e.g., pivot tables).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong creative mindset to make powerful MS PowerPoint presentations.
• Excellent listening, interpersonal skills.
• The ability to analyse and relate all relevant information/data from multiple sources to extract insights.
• A proven ability to work independently with minimum supervision, and collaboratively with virtual teams.
• The capability to meet tight deadlines and work with flexibility.
• The ability to summarize and conclude activities, applying appropriate documentation standard.

Ideally you’ll also have

• Masters in Business Administration.
• At least 8-years of proven work experience on strategic, business analyst/ support role.
• Big 4 or Business Consulting experience.
• Advanced MS Excel & PowerPoint Skills.

What we look for

Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization. If you’re ready to take on a wide range of responsibilities and are committed to seeking out new ways to make a difference, this role is for you.

Your key responsibilities

You’ll likely balance your time between both project management and analytics. We’ll also look to you to audit and manage budgets and expenses, along with compliance and due diligence.

Skills and attributes for success

• Manage stakeholder expectations, project plans and communications, and provide status updates as needed to continuously advance service delivery
• Gain a strong knowledge of the service line and the engagement, EY’s structure, key personnel and EY’s policies/procedures
• Act as the knowledge manager for the engagement team, managing internal databases and/or portals designed to facilitate global team communications and coordination of go-to-market strategy
• Take complete ownership of engagement economics (e.g., hours/budgets/estimates to complete, fees, billings, Work in Process spreadsheets), proactively collaborating with relevant team members to resolve any issues that arise
• Collaborate with the account team, business development and resource management teams to achieve team goals
• Coordinate risk management processes, such as engagement letters, client continuance, independence, family tree, preapproval and other regulatory requirements

To qualify for the role you must have

• Strong data analytics and Excel skills (e.g. pivot tables)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent listening, influencing, interpersonal and presentation skills
• The ability to address all relevant information/data and develop practical approaches to answering problems
• A creative and curious approach to tackling complex challenges, leveraging internal tools and resources to achieve favorable results
• A results-oriented approach to drive improvements in engagement economics (financial systems, relationship management tools, revenue pipeline, sales cycle reports, risk assessments)
• A proven ability to work independently with minimum supervision, and collaboratively with virtual teams
• An ability to effectively manage concurrent projects and prioritize multiple tasks, including multi-location coordination
• The capability to meet tight deadlines, performing fine-quality work and diligent follow-up
• The ability to summarize and conclude activities, applying appropriate documentation standards and lessons learned
• The capacity to protect confidential and proprietary information

Ideally, you’ll also have

• A background in a direct client service role
• A bachelor’s degree

What we look for

We’re most interested in people with big ideas who aren’t afraid to voice them. You’ll need a proactive approach to work and the curiosity to seek out new challenges without being pushed. If you’re ready to make a real contribution to our goal of building a better working world, this role is for you.

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning : You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you : We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership : We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture : You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Your key responsibilities

As a manager, you'll manage the delivery of audit engagements by defining the audit strategy in consultation with the Senior Manager / Partner and executing it in compliance with Ernst & Young's policies and protocols. When required, you'll personally execute complex audit procedures and lead teams or parts of teams on engagements, depending on the size of the engagement. You’ll also assist in managing the financial aspects of engagements by organizing staffing, tracking fees and communicating issues to project leaders as well as participate in business development initiatives.

You'll actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships and confirm that work delivered to clients is of a high quality. As part of this, you'll anticipate and identify risks and escalate issues, as appropriate. As an influential member of the team, you'll help to create a positive learning culture and will coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring. You will also contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training Assurance professionals and contribute to the maintenance of an educational program to continually develop personal skills of staff.

• Have strong academic record, including a degree and accounting qualification, such as ACCA or CPA
• Have At least seven years of professional experience in external audit
• Have thorough knowledge of current auditing techniques and experience managing teams
• Have experience with a Big 4 accounting firm
• Have experience of risk-based audit process
• Have an understanding of currently applicable and upcoming IFRS
• Have knowledge of use of audit tools and data analytic tools

What we offer you

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