Job Description

Aldar Education is currently seeking an Assistant Manager - Tax & Compensation to support our growing family of owned, operated and managed schools in the UAE. This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and to help shape the future of Abu Dhabi's leading school group.


Aldar Education is the leading education group in Abu Dhabi, we provide inclusive and innovative learning that inspires and empowers communities, Aldar Education aims to be your employer of choice. We educate over 34,000 students across our group of owned and managed schools in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain and as we grow so does our need for highly skilled, inspirational, and dedicated school leaders and employees across the group.


Working collaboratively, our purpose is to empower the next generation to shape our future, directly supporting the educational goals of Abu Dhabi's government. Today, Aldar Education's efforts are guided by the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030 plan, which aims to build a sustainable knowledge-based economy through premium education.


This position is primarily responsible for managing VAT, Corporate Taxation & Regulatory Compliance for Aldar Education.



Minimum Qualifications:


• Bachelor's degree in Finance
• Professional Tax Qualification is highly desirable

Minimum Experience:

• 5-8 years of experience within a tax role is MUST
• Implementation of VAT and Corporate Tax is must
• Expert in taxation and able to provide guidance to the management and finance team

Job Specific Knowledge & Skills:

• Strong team management? negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Experience of working with large amounts of data. Advanced knowledge of excel is mandatory.
• Strong analytical and presentational skills
• Deadline oriented with excellent organizational ability, of self and extended team.
• Capable of influencing people and talented in networking with cultural sensitivity.

What We Offer

Aldar Education is a family of world-class, child centered, and innovative schools based in the UAE. We educate over 34,000 students across our group of owned and managed schools and as we grow so does our need for highly skilled, inspirational, and dedicated school leaders. We offer an attractive remuneration package including medical cover, flights, housing, and free child school places. Our future-focused learning model includes both students and staff so we place a special emphasis on professional development, coaching and training.


Successful candidates will have access to a wide network of professionals and opportunities to both lead and contribute to training others as well as developing themselves.


Aldar Education is keen to hear from like-minded, forward thinking school leaders who would welcome the challenges and opportunities that we have to offer.


This job description is not all inclusive. Aldar Education reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. We are also mindful of our national development strategy and encourage UAE Nationals in their application at our company.


Aldar Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Offers of appointment are subject to satisfactory references and police clearance.



Main Duties:

• Researching, analysing and interpreting changing tax legislation in both inside UAE and in GCC.
• Working with tax laws in UAE and update the changes to the management
• Responsible for Corporate Tax implementation in co-ordination with Tax experts within Aldar Group and external parties
• Responsible to maintain AE group tax profile up to date with tax regulatory authorities
• Responsible for Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) for Aldar Education entities
• Point of contact for any compliance requirements from tax regulators and ADEK
• Responsible for Internal and External audit queries for the areas under the purview of this job role

Specific Duties:

Value Added Tax

• Prepare input and output registers (payables and receivables), reconcile with the actual invoices and GL balances and ensure the VAT calculation is accurate and in compliance with the FTA law
• Initiate the registration of new legal entities under AE VAT group, submit amendments whenever applicable and submit the required documents to FTA to keep the account information up to date
• Responsible for VAT filing on a monthly and quarterly basis for the VAT groups and claim VAT refunds from FTA on a timely manner
• Providing accounting and clerical support to ensure that financial transactions are in compliance with VAT regulations.
• Prepare and manage all documents in line with VAT regulations and other related activities
• Handle VAT audit requirements from FTA
• Maintain controls by adhering to the accounting department's policies and procedures and ensure Tax practices are in compliance with UAE financial reporting statutes, standards and financial reporting best practices
• Conduct day-to-day transactional processing and reporting on taxation. This includes the accurate posting of all tax related entries

Corporate Taxation

• Work closely with internal and external advisors to successfully implement new corporate tax for the AE group across all regions within the GCC
• Ensure compliance with the international taxation policies and transfer pricing legislation in all regions where the organisation operates. Recommend suggestions to facilitate business processes
• Accurately file corporate income tax compliance in accordance with country specific requirements in a timely manner
• Ensure to review and ensure tax provision/balances are accurate in the General Ledger accounts
• Provide training to the team to ensure the team abide to tax compliance laws

Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure to review the gaps identified as part of Risk Assessment, work with the stakeholders to resolve them to ensure 100% compliance with the regulatory requirements (ADAA)
• Finance point of contact for Internal Audit requirements with regards to risk assessment and responsible to resolve all gaps on a timely manner by providing evidence
• Point of contact for ADEK reg