Tax Technology Manager - Group Tax

About the role

The Tax Technology Manager at Al Futtaim Group's Group Tax function is responsible for designing, implementing and operating the technology solutions that support Group Tax across all jurisdictions. The role covers tax data sourcing and structuring from ERP and Finance systems, analytics to spot trends and anomalies, support for tax modelling and audit defence, and the controlled adoption of AI within Group Tax.

Key responsibilities

• Tax technology strategy: manage the Group Tax technology and data roadmap, prioritise initiatives, develop business cases and track benefits.
• Tax data management: oversee sourcing and structuring of tax data from ERP and Finance systems and ensure its quality for Group Tax review.
• Review and oversight tools: develop standardised templates and tools for reviewing tax positions and filings, and resolve exceptions and inconsistencies.
• Analytics and exposure identification: build analytics across corporate tax, VAT, withholding tax, transfer pricing and Pillar Two data, flagging anomalies and trends.
• AI and analytics: evaluate and manage AI use cases, ensuring output validation, documentation and user enablement.
• Scenario modelling: prepare data for modelling and sensitivity analysis, and support effective tax rate analysis and Pillar Two impact assessments.
• Dashboards and reporting: maintain dashboards and trackers for compliance visibility and report tax exposures, audits and deadlines to senior management.
• Governance and system change: maintain audit-ready records, and ensure data and reporting requirements are met in ERP implementations and upgrades.
• Stakeholder, vendor and project management: work with Tax, Finance, IT and the business, oversee external vendors and advisers, and deliver training and enablement.

Required profile

• Professional qualification in tax, accounting or finance, or a degree in information systems, data or technology with demonstrable tax exposure.
• 7-10 years of experience in tax technology, tax data and analytics, or finance systems.
• Multinational in-house experience in a central or group tax function preferred; consulting experience with hands-on delivery is acceptable.
• Advanced working knowledge of corporate tax, VAT, transfer pricing and Pillar Two data requirements.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.

Required skills

• Practical experience with ERP systems, preferably SAP.
• Proficiency in data preparation and analytics tools.
• Ability to turn tax review and audit defence needs into data specifications and analytics, with strong project management skills.