Tax & Accounting Manager (UAE) Accounting · Full-time · Abu Dhabi

Sonsoto; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 360,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa and relocation support

Job summary

Sonsoto seeks an experienced accounting and tax lead to run monthly close, VAT work, and UAE corporate tax for a growing client book in the UAE. You will own the review process, hire into the team, and set standards for communicating numbers to founders.

You will manage qualifying-free-zone person assessments, ensure high-quality filings, and drive a disciplined close checklist across UAE clients. Visa and relocation support are available where needed.

Qualifications

• Six+ years of UAE accounting and tax practice, including at least two years post-CT.
• Direct experience with qualifying-free-zone-person assessments.
• You have hired and grown a small pod before, not only worked inside one.
• You write review notes that a first-year accountant can act on without a call.
• Comfortable working across UAE, Vietnamese, and international parent-company reporting cycles.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly close delivery within a five-working-day cadence.
• Oversee quarterly VAT filings and reconciliations with the FTA portal.
• Sign off on annual UAE corporate tax returns and related documentation.
• Manage qualifying-free-zone person assessments for client files.
• Hire, train, and conduct quality reviews as the team scales.

Skills

UAE accounting

Tax compliance

CT returns

VAT filings

Team leadership

Cross-border reporting

Tools

FTA portal

Job description

Lead monthly close, VAT and CT filings, and free-zone qualifying-income assessments for a growing UAE client book.

Visa and relocation support available where needed.

UAE corporate tax is now real. This role is for someone who wants to run the accounting and tax function for a client book that treats compliance as a matter of professional pride.

About the role

You'll run monthly close and quarterly VAT for a portfolio of UAE clients, sign off on annual CT returns, and lead qualifying-free-zone-person assessments on the files where 0% is on the table. You'll build the review process, hire into the team, and set the standard for how Sonsoto talks to founders about their numbers.

What you’ll own

• Monthly close and management-account delivery inside a five-working-day cadence.
• Quarterly VAT filings and reconciliations with the FTA portal.
• Annual UAE corporate tax returns, including transfer-pricing documentation where applicable.
• Qualifying free-zone person substance and income assessments, refreshed at least twice a year.
• Review and sign-off of every filing before it leaves the firm.
• Bookkeeper hiring, training, and quality reviews as the team scales.

What we look for

• Six+ years of UAE accounting and tax practice, including at least two years post-CT.
• Direct experience with qualifying-free-zone-person assessments.
• You have hired and grown a small pod before, not only worked inside one.
• You write review notes that a first-year accountant can act on without a call.
• Comfortable working across UAE, Vietnamese, and international parent-company reporting cycles.

How we work

You’ll join a growing accounting team and take ownership of technical standards. We use a single reviewed close checklist per client, single-source workpapers, and written go/no-go decisions for filings. If a client's numbers cannot be signed off, we do not file — you have full authority to hold.