Tax Automation Lead: Data & AI for Digital Tax Ops

Robinson & Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Al-Futtaim is seeking a Tax Services Manager – Data & Digital to lead the digital transformation of its tax operations in Dubai. You will own the tax data landscape, drive automation, and ensure compliance with UAE tax regulations while partnering with IT, finance, and external advisors.

You will build data pipelines from SAP, implement AI-enabled solutions, create dashboards for compliance and risk, and embed governance and change management across Tax Operations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on development experience with Python, JavaScript or equivalent for data processing, automation, or AI solutions.
• Strong data engineering and analysis skills, including advanced Excel/Power Query, data extraction, and SQL.
• Experience building AI/ML or generative-AI solutions such as classification models or chatbots.
• Knowledge of finance and accounting fundamentals, tax concepts, and project delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end tax data set used for VAT, Corporate Tax, Transfer Pricing and e-invoicing across entities.
• Build and maintain data extraction, mapping, and transformation routines to produce clean, auditable tax data.
• Design and run automated data quality and exception checks.
• Maintain documented data lineage and reconciliation between statutory ledgers and tax filings.
• Identify and prioritize automation and AI use cases across Tax Operations.
• Develop, test, and deploy solutions using Python, Power Platform, RPA, and approved AI/agent tooling.
• Produce prototypes rapidly, validate benefit with process owners, and integrate successful pilots into BAU.
• Maintain solution documentation, version control, testing evidence, and hand-over to operational users.
• Support UAE e-invoicing program from a data and integration perspective.
• Analyze master data and transactional gaps against regulatory schema requirements and drive remediation.
• Support testing, validation, and cut-over activities for e-invoicing and other digital tax reporting obligations.
• Build and maintain dashboards and analytics covering tax compliance status, filing calendar, exposure indicators, and process performance.
• Convert tax and finance data into clear, decision-ready insight for senior Finance stakeholders.
• Support audit, tax authority, and internal control requests with accurate, traceable data extracts.
• Ensure all digital solutions comply with IT security, data privacy, SAP access/GRC, and change-management standards.
• Embed controls and audit trails into every automated process.
• Escalate data, control, or compliance risks promptly with proposed mitigation.
• Act as a translator between Tax/Finance process owners and technical teams.
• Partner with GBS towers, Group Tax, divisional finance teams, IT, and external advisors/vendors.
• Train and enable Tax Operations users on delivered tools; build internal capability rather than dependency.
• Maintain current knowledge of UAE and regional tax digitalisation.
• Benchmark against Group and divisional best practice to propose improvements to the Tax digital roadmap.
• Contribute to standardization and simplification of Tax Operations processes ahead of automation.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

Data engineering

SQL

AI/ML

Finance knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Power Platform

RPA

SQL

Excel

Job description

Al-Futtaim is seeking a Tax Services Manager – Data & Digital to lead the digital transformation of its tax operations in Dubai. You will own the tax data landscape, drive automation, and ensure compliance with UAE tax regulations while partnering with IT, finance, and external advisors.

You will build data pipelines from SAP, implement AI-enabled solutions, create dashboards for compliance and risk, and embed governance and change management across Tax Operations.