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About the Role
AZ Management & Development is seeking an experienced Senior Tax Accountant – Group Tax to join its Finance team.
Reporting directly to the Group CFO, the role will support tax compliance, tax accounting, audit readiness, tax inspections, and tax risk management across the Group and its subsidiaries.
The successful candidate will combine strong knowledge of Egyptian taxation with disciplined documentation, sound professional judgement, and the ability to coordinate effectively with Finance teams, external tax advisors, auditors, and the Egyptian Tax Authority.
Department: Finance Reports to: Group CFOLocation: New Cairo, Egypt Employment Type: Full-time Workplace Type: On-site
Key Responsibilities
Tax Compliance and Filings
• Manage corporate income tax compliance across the Group, including returns, supporting schedules, payments, and statutory deadlines.• Prepare and review VAT, withholding tax, payroll tax, stamp tax, and other applicable filings.• Maintain a Group-wide tax calendar and monitor timely filing, payment, review, and documentation.• Review tax submissions for accuracy, completeness, and consistency with accounting records.• Maintain complete tax records, submission evidence, payment receipts, and supporting documentation.
Tax Accounting and Financial Reporting
• Prepare and review current and deferred tax calculations, provisions, and related schedules where applicable.• Reconcile tax returns and tax accounts with the general ledger and financial statements.• Prepare and review tax-related journal entries, accruals, provisions, settlements, and reclassifications.• Work with Accounting and Financial Control to ensure tax treatments are correctly reflected in financial records.• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual closes and provide auditors with required tax schedules and explanations.
Tax Inspections and Disputes
• Coordinate tax inspections, audits, assessments, objections, appeals, and dispute-resolution activities.• Prepare inspection files, including reconciliations, contracts, invoices, payment evidence, and supporting schedules.• Coordinate responses to requests, observations, and assessments from the Egyptian Tax Authority.• Liaise with external tax advisors and internal stakeholders throughout inspections and disputes.• Track open cases, deadlines, exposures, provisions, and required actions until closure.
Electronic Tax Compliance
• Monitor compliance with Egyptian electronic invoicing and electronic receipt requirements.• Reconcile electronic documents with ERP records, VAT returns, and general ledger balances.• Coordinate with Accounting, IT, ERP administrators, and external providers to resolve validation, coding, integration, and submission issues.• Monitor rejected, cancelled, invalid, or incomplete documents and ensure timely corrective action.• Maintain controls over registrations, electronic signatures, item and service codes, tax classifications, branches, and authorised users.
Transfer Pricing and Related-Party Transactions
• Support Egyptian transfer pricing compliance where applicable.• Maintain schedules and documentation for intercompany and related-party transactions.• Assist with local files, master files, transfer pricing studies, and related documentation.• Review intercompany charges, management fees, shared services, financing arrangements, and related-party balances from a tax perspective.• Ensure consistency between transfer pricing documentation, agreements, accounting records, and tax returns.
Tax Advisory, Controls and Process Improvement
• Provide practical tax guidance to Finance, Procurement, HR, Legal, Operations, and other functions.• Review significant contracts, vendor arrangements, employee payments, capital expenditure, and business transactions for tax implications.• Support tax assessments related to new entities, investments, restructuring, and expansion.• Coordinate with external advisors on complex or high-risk tax matters.• Standardise tax templates, reconciliations, working papers, checklists, and documentation packs across subsidiaries.• Support tax health checks, identify control gaps or exposures, and track corrective actions.• Monitor changes in Egyptian tax laws and tax authority practices and translate them into practical internal guidance.• Support automation and improvements in tax reporting, reconciliations, document management, ERP configuration, and data quality.
Stakeholder Coordination
• Coordinate tax activities and submission requirements with Finance teams across Group entities.• Establish clear deadlines, responsibilities, documentation requirements, and review standards.• Maintain effective relationships with external tax advisors, auditors, and tax authorities.• Prepare tax compliance updates, exposure summaries, and inspection-status reports for the Group CFO and senior management.• Escalate material tax risks, overdue obligations, disputes, and control gaps promptly.
Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, Business Administration, or a related discipline.• A recognised accounting or tax qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CMA, or equivalent is preferred.• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in tax accounting, tax compliance, external audit, or tax advisory.• At least 5 years of hands-on experience with Egyptian corporate income tax, VAT, withholding tax, payroll tax, tax reporting, or tax inspections.• Strong practical knowledge of Egyptian tax laws, filing requirements, tax authority procedures, and audit processes.• Proven experience preparing tax returns, reconciliations, provisions, and inspection documentation.• Experience in a multi-entity, holding-company, or Group environment.• Experience with Egyptian electronic invoicing and electronic tax platforms.• Transfer pricing and related-party documentation experience is advantageous.• Experience with a major audit or tax advisory firm is advantageous.• Experience in education or another multi-entity service environment is preferred.
Technical Skills
• Strong knowledge of Egyptian corporate income tax, VAT, withholding tax, payroll tax, and other applicable taxes.• Strong tax accounting, reconciliation, provision, and financial reporting capabilities.• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and good command of Word and Power Point.• Experience with ERP or accounting systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, or equivalent.• Experience using Egyptian Tax Authority electronic platforms.• Strong working-paper preparation, documentation, and audit-trail management skills.• Ability to analyse financial data and identify inconsistencies, exposures, and compliance risks.
Skills and Competencies
• High attention to detail, accuracy, and documentation discipline.• Strong technical tax knowledge and professional judgement.• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capabilities.• Ability to translate tax requirements into practical business actions.• Strong coordination and stakeholder-management skills across multiple entities.• Ability to manage filings, inspections, disputes, and competing deadlines under pressure.• Strong ownership, accountability, integrity, confidentiality, and follow-through.• Excellent written and spoken English and Arabic.