Project Manager

TRSS; United Arab Emirates; Hybrid; AED 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading provider of tax solutions is seeking an ONESOURCE Technology Implementation & Consulting Project Manager in the UAE. The role involves managing implementation projects, leading project teams, and delivering consulting services in tax technology. Candidates should have extensive project management experience and a strong background in ERP and tax domains. The position requires strong communication skills and will involve 40-45% travel, offering a hybrid work model and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Hybrid work model

Flexible vacation and Mental Health Days

Career development opportunities

Comprehensive benefits

Qualifications

• 12+ years of core project management and consulting experience.
• 15+ years in ERP, tax, or technology domains.
• Experience managing multiple parallel projects end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of implementation projects and ensure delivery.
• Lead project planning and manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Deliver consulting services in tax technology to external clients.

Skills

Project management experience

ERP expertise

Consulting skills

Stakeholder management

Fluent English

Education

Project management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2)

Tools

ONESOURCE Tax Determination

Pagero e-invoicing

Taxware

Vertex

Avalara

Job description

Project Manager – ONESOURCE

Thomson Reuters is a leading provider of transaction tax management solutions to companies of all sizes, enabling Finance, Tax and IT professionals to achieve accurate, timely and cost-effective compliance. Our flagship offering, the Thomson Reuters Application Suite, provides Consolidated Transaction Tax Management software and services, enabling global enterprise to manage sales, use, value-add, excise and specialty taxes with consistency, accuracy, control and efficiency. The marketplace is demanding our products, and Thomson Reuters is poised to grow significantly over the next several years in geographies across the world.

We are now hiring an ONESOURCE Technology Implementation & Consulting Project Manager to lead the delivery of software implementation projects within the Indirect Tax consulting organization. You will work closely with project teams, peer project managers, sales, customer service, clients, and partner consulting teams.

About the Role

As a ONESOURCE Project Manager, you will be responsible for:

1. Service Delivery & Portfolio Management
   • Manage an assigned portfolio of Thomson Reuters implementation projects.
   • Direct project teams and own end-to-end delivery.
   • Ensure strong planning, quality control, client management, and customer satisfaction.
2. End-to-End Project Management
   • Lead project planning sessions to define scope, approach, and delivery plans.
   • Manage multiple complex projects/issues simultaneously, often requiring subject matter expertise.
   • Drive operational improvements, efficiency, and results.
   • Meet revenue and utilization targets as defined by management.
3. Communication & Status Reporting
   • Maintain clear communication with clients and internal teams.
   • Prepare and deliver regular project status updates.
   • Share knowledge and updates across the broader organization.
4. Delivery Leadership
   • Provide guidance and leadership to team members (and/or manage a team).
   • Make routine decisions within established guidelines, including approved exceptions.
   • Manage or contribute to project cost control, forecasting, and budget recommendations.
   • Ensure quality and timeliness of deliverables; maintain accountability across the team.
   • Provide insights and recommendations to support broader organizational goals.
5. Consulting & Subject Matter Expertise
   • Deliver consulting services to external clients in tax technology, legal, and global trade domain as part of Thomson Reuters Professional service team.
   • Provide subject matter expertise to support customer deliverables.
6. Travel
   • 40–45% travel is required.

About You

To be our ONESOURCE Project Manager, you will likely have:

• 12+ years of core project management experience (with project management certification e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent).
• 15+ years total experience in ERP, tax, or technology domains.
• Experience delivering consulting and technology implementation projects with diverse teams and large customers, including MENA and global clients.
• Proven ability to manage multiple parallel projects end-to-end.
• Strong understanding of:
  • O2C (Order-to-Cash) and/or P2P (Procure-to-Pay)
  • Indirect tax, e-invoicing, or related tax technology processes
• Background in tax technology or professional services organizations (e.g., systems integrators, ERP consulting firms, Big 4), ideally supporting large enterprises.
• Strong communication and coordination skills, including stakeholder management with senior client leadership, partners, and consultants.
• Fluent English (Arabic is a plus).

Highly Desired

• Integration/implementation experience with enterprise tax products such as ONESOURCE Tax Determination, Pagero e-invoicing, Taxware, Vertex, Avalara
• Experience with implementation and rollout of large ERP programs and/or Tax transformation and/or E-invoice solution implementation project management.

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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