Location – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The Role:
As a Transfer Pricing Director, you will play a key role in leading our client’s transfer pricing practice in Saudi Arabia. You will be responsible for managing client relationships, driving business development, ensuring compliance, and mentoring a high-performing team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Client Management – Manage key client relationships, providing strategic advice on complex transfer pricing matters. Oversee the preparation and review of client deliverables to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and high quality.
- Practice Development – Lead the growth of the transfer pricing practice by developing thought leadership, implementing best practices, and participating in firm-wide initiatives.
- Team Leadership & Development – Mentor and manage the Transfer Pricing team, fostering skill development and knowledge enhancement. Monitor team performance and ensure goals are met.
- Business Development – Identify and develop new business opportunities, build relationships with prospective clients, and contribute to proposals, webinars, seminars, and client presentations.
- Risk Management – Assess and mitigate risks associated with client engagements, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Transfer Pricing Compliance – Oversee the preparation and review of CTDF, Local Files, Master Files, and other relevant transfer pricing filings in accordance with Saudi tax regulations. Ensure all compliance deadlines are met.
- Transfer Pricing Advisory – Provide expert advisory services, ensuring compliance with relevant tax regulations and meeting advisory deadlines.
Skills and attributes:
- Education – You should have a bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field. A master’s degree in tax or accounting is preferred.
- Professional Certification – You should have a professional certification in accounting or tax (e.g. CPA, CMA, ACCA, ADIT, CTA).
- Skills – You should have an entrepreneurial personality, strong leadership skills, strong analytical skills, be able to work independently as well as part of a team, have excellent attention to detail, and be able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously. You should also have strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience – You should have at least 8-12 years of relevant experience in a tax or accounting firm, with at least 4-6 of those years in a leadership role.
- Language – Fluency in English is Mandatory and Arabic is highly preferable.