Tax Services Manager | Data and Digital-Corporate Services - Al Futtaim Group

Overview Of The Role:

The Manager of Tax Services | Data & Digital is responsible for accelerating the digitalization of Al-Futtaim Group’s Tax Operations by managing the tax data agenda and implementing data-driven and AI-enabled solutions. The role enhances tax compliance and reporting accuracy, reduces manual effort, and supports adherence to UAE and regional tax regulations. The incumbent leads efforts in automating tax processes, ensuring digital readiness for regulatory changes, and maintaining robust data governance. Success in this role involves collaborating with various stakeholders, managing projects that simplify and standardize finance processes, and ensuring compliance with IT security standards. Given its pivotal position, the role directly impacts the financial and reputational standing of the organization.

What You Will Do:

Tax Data Management & Data Quality

Own the end-to-end tax data set used for VAT, Corporate Tax, Transfer Pricing and e-invoicing across AFG entities, from SAP source to submission-ready output.
Build and maintain data extraction, mapping, and transformation routines to produce clean, auditable tax data.
Design and run automated data quality and exception checks.
Maintain documented data lineage and reconciliation between statutory ledgers and tax filings.

Digital & AI-Enabled Automation of Tax Processes

Identify and prioritize automation and AI use cases across Tax Operations.
Develop, test, and deploy solutions using Python, Power Platform, RPA, and approved AI/agent tooling.
Produce prototypes rapidly, validate benefit with process owners, and integrate successful pilots into BAU.
Maintain solution documentation, version control, testing evidence, and hand-over to operational users.

E-Invoicing & Regulatory Digital Readiness

Support the UAE e-invoicing program from a data and integration perspective.
Analyze master data and transactional gaps against regulatory schema requirements and drive remediation.
Support testing, validation, and cut-over activities for e-invoicing and other digital tax reporting obligations.

Reporting, Analytics & Insight

Build and maintain dashboards and analytics covering tax compliance status, filing calendar, exposure indicators, and process performance.
Convert tax and finance data into clear, decision-ready insight for senior Finance stakeholders.
Support audit, tax authority, and internal control requests with accurate, traceable data extracts.

Governance, Controls & Risk

Ensure all digital solutions comply with AFG IT security, data privacy, SAP access/GRC, and change-management standards.
Embed controls and audit trails into every automated process.
Escalate data, control, or compliance risks promptly with proposed mitigation.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Delivery

Act as a translator between Tax/Finance process owners and technical teams.
Partner with GBS towers, Group Tax, divisional finance teams, IT, and external advisors/vendors.
Train and enable Tax Operations users on delivered tools; build internal capability rather than dependency.

Continuous Improvement & Knowledge Currency

Maintain current knowledge of UAE and regional tax digitalisation.
Benchmark against Group and divisional best practice to propose improvements to the Tax digital roadmap.
Contribute to standardization and simplification of Tax Operations processes ahead of automation.

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