Tax Technology and Transformation – Senior Manager – Doha, Qatar

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Tax Technology and Transformation – Senior Manager – Doha, Qatar Jobs in Doha, Doha, Qatar at EY

Title: Tax Technology and Transformation – Senior Manager – Doha, Qatar

Company: EY

Location: Doha, Doha, Qatar

Senior Manager

Tax Technology & Transformation (TTT)

EY MENA

• Purpose

PurposeThe TTT Senior Manager is a client-facing workstream leader responsible for shaping and delivering tax transformation and tax technology engagements across Corporate Tax, Indirect Tax, and Accounting Compliance & Reporting. The role converts business requirements into implementable solutions by leading end-to-end workstreams spanning process redesign, data & analytics, solution architecture, AI enablement, and change adoption, ensuring outcomes are measurable and sustainable.

The Senior Manager is accountable for day-to-day delivery leadership across requirements, design, build oversight, testing, deployment and stabilization—coordinating Tax, Finance, Technology teams and vendors while maintaining disciplined governance and consistently client-ready outputs.

• Expected outcomes from the role (measurable “what success looks like”)
• Corporate Tax transformation outcomes
• Delivers corporate tax process and operating model improvements that reduce cycle time, improve standardization, and strengthen data reliability for compliance and reporting.
• Establishes repeatable tax data validation and reconciliation routines to improve data quality and traceability into reporting outputs, aligned to “data improvement and information access” outcomes.
• Indirect Tax transformation & eInvoicing outcomes
• Delivers indirect tax reporting improvements, including data readiness, exception handling, and reporting governance.
• Where in scope, delivers eInvoicing enablement and embeds it into business process, data flow, and reporting governance, including data-driven VAT reporting frameworks.
• Accounting Compliance & Reporting outcomes
• Improves accounting compliance and reporting timeliness and accuracy through clear process design, calendars, ownership, and dependency management.
• Delivers dashboards and exception monitoring that enable proactive issue resolution and improved reporting confidence.
• AI outcomes (practical value + governance)
• Delivers AI/GenAI use cases that support tax and compliance outcomes (e.g., document extraction/classification, drafting support, anomaly detection, insight generation) with clear evaluation criteria, human oversight, and adoption measures aligned to GenAI direction.
• Delivery governance & client leadership outcomes
• Delivers predictable workstream outcomes through disciplined governance: milestones, RAID, decision logs, scope/change control, and executive-ready reporting.
• Maintains high client satisfaction through proactive stakeholder management, crisp communications, and consistently “client-ready” deliverables.
• People & capability outcomes
• Builds high-performing teams by coaching Managers/Assistant Managers/Consultants, enforcing quality review discipline, and enabling capability growth in analytics, architecture and delivery methods.
• Expected behaviours (how the role operates)
• Client-facing excellence (mandatory)
• Leads client workshops and working sessions with confidence; communicates complex topics clearly; produces decision-oriented outputs suitable for leadership stakeholders.
• Governance-first delivery leadership
• Runs a disciplined delivery rhythm (RAID rigor, milestone control, decision clarity, outcome tracking) and escalates early to protect outcomes.
• Transformation and change leadership
• Treats adoption as a deliverable by embedding stakeholder alignment, communications, training readiness, and measured adoption into plans and governance.
• Collaboration & inclusiveness
• Builds integrated teams across Tax, Finance, Data and Technology; clarifies accountability and coaches with timely feedback.
• Professional integrity & secure delivery (mandatory)
• Ensures confidentiality and secure client data handling; maintains documentation discipline and quality review standards.
• Mobility (mandatory)
• Willingness to travel across MENA (and occasionally beyond) based on engagement needs.
• Technical competencies

The Senior Manager is expected to shape and deliver workstream outcomes and to credibly challenge designs and plans across process, data, technology and change workstreams.

• Functional depth (Corporate Tax, Indirect Tax, Accounting Compliance & Reporting)
• Strong understanding of end-to-end tax and compliance process value chains, key data requirements, and cross-functional dependencies across Tax/Finance/IT.
• Ability to run structured assessments and redesign workstreams consistent with tax function improvement services.
• Data, analytics & validation (tools capability — required)
• Hands-on proficiency in Alteryx for data preparation/workflows and Tableau for dashboards/insights (and equivalent BI tools where needed).
• Strong SQL capability for extraction, validation logic, reconciliations, and traceability of reporting outputs; familiarity with data warehouse concepts is beneficial.
• Ability to define data quality rules, reconciliation frameworks, and exception monitoring that support compliance and reporting.
• eInvoicing & digital reporting enablement (Indirect Tax)
• Understanding of eInvoicing program components (process impacts, data elements, integration touchpoints, rollout governance).
• Ability to support design and implementation of data-driven VAT reporting frameworks where required.
• AI / GenAI enablement (Tax + Compliance)
• Ability to shape and implement AI/GenAI use cases with appropriate evaluation, oversight and adoption mechanisms.
• Solution architecture & enterprise architecture alignment (required)
• Ability to contribute to and govern workstream-level solution architecture: application components, data flows, integration patterns, security/audit logging, scalability and resiliency.
• Working familiarity with enterprise architecture and solution design concepts, and ability to align designs to client enterprise standards.
• Software application development & SDLC governance (required)
• Ability to translate requirements into user stories/functional specifications; define testing strategy; support release planning; and manage quality gates for software-enabled solutions. ,
• Ability to partner with engineering teams on build standards, defect triage and deployment readiness (documentation, evidence and controls).
• Change management and adoption delivery
• Ability to lead change workstream components (stakeholder mapping, communications, training approach, adoption KPIs) and embed enablement into delivery plans.
• Delivery methods & execution discipline
• Strong delivery management capability; familiarity with structured enterprise delivery methods such as Agile is beneficial.
• Key responsibilities (what the role does)
• Workstream delivery leadership (end-to-end)
• Lead one or more workstreams from initiation through stabilization, managing integrated delivery across process, data/analytics, technology enablement, AI and change.
• Deliver workstream outputs consistent with tax function improvement scope: assessments, process redesign, data improvement and information access, organizational design support, change management, and project management.
• Corporate Tax transformation delivery
• Lead corporate tax workstream activities including requirements, design, data validation approach, and implementation governance.
• Build and oversee SQL-led validation and analytics workflows to improve data reliability and reporting confidence.
• Indirect Tax transformation including eInvoicing
• Lead indirect tax workstream delivery including eInvoicing enablement and data-driven VAT reporting frameworks where required; coordinate Tax/Finance/IT stakeholders and vendors.
• Accounting Compliance & Reporting transformation
• Design and implement improvements to compliance/reporting processes, calendars, data lineage and exception handling.
• Develop dashboards and reporting insights using Tableau (and equivalent BI tools) to support monitoring and decision-making.
• Solution architecture and design governance
• Own workstream-level solution design artifacts (process flows, data mappings, integration requirements, non-functional requirements) and align to client enterprise architecture standards.
• Govern software build and implementation lifecycle
• Manage SDLC execution for assigned components: user stories/specs, backlog/prioritization support, testing governance, defect triage, release readiness and deployment support.
• Deliver AI / GenAI-enabled use cases responsibly
• Lead AI/GenAI workstream delivery: define use cases and value, establish evaluation and guardrails, coordinate build, and ensure adoption readiness.
• Run governance, quality and risk management (mandatory)
• Run governance cadence for the workstream: RAID, decision log inputs, scope/change control, status reporting and escalation.
• Ensure secure handling of client data; enforce documentation discipline and quality reviews.
• Support pursuits and account expansion (shaping)
• Support pursuits by contributing to discovery workshops, delivery approach sections, workplans/estimates, and risk/assumptions inputs.
• Identify follow-on opportunities aligned to tax transformation, analytics, eInvoicing, AI, and change adoption.
• Team leadership and coaching
• Coach Managers/Assistant Managers/Consultants; conduct quality reviews of deliverables; build capability in tools (Alteryx/Tableau/SQL) and structured delivery.
• Mobility (mandatory)
• Travel across MENA for key workshops and critical delivery phases.
• Qualifications and experience

Required

• Typically 12+ years experience in tax transformation, tax technology, finance/compliance transformation, technology-enabled process improvement, or management consulting.
• Demonstrated experience leading workstreams and teams on multi-workstream transformation programs with strong governance and stakeholder management.
• Hands-on (or hands-on leadership) capability using Alteryx, Tableau, and SQL for analytics-led delivery and reporting.
• Experience contributing to solution architecture alignment and governing software build lifecycle elements (requirements/user stories, testing, defect management, release readiness).
• Strong change leadership orientation and ability to embed adoption into delivery plans.

Preferred

• Experience delivering eInvoicing and digital indirect tax reporting programs including data-driven VAT reporting frameworks.
• Experience leading AI/GenAI-enabled capabilities in enterprise functions with clear evaluation and adoption measures.
• Relevant credentials aligned to role mix (tax/accounting qualification, project/program management, architecture, data/AI, change management).