Indirect Tax Lead

Key Responsibilities

Indirect Tax Strategy & Roadmap

• Leads the development and documentation of the multi-year strategy for indirect tax , milestones, and outcome measures.
• Documents and reports on foresight and scenario-planning exercises addressing regulatory, economic, and technology shifts affecting indirect tax.
• Defines strategic initiatives for VAT/e-invoicing adoption, compliance uplift, and process simplification.

Policy Interface & Impact Assessment

• Prepares or coordinates the preparation of structured impact assessments for proposed indirect tax policy measures, covering administrative feasibility, compliance effects, and fiscal or operational implications, in collaboration with relevant departments.
• Documents options, dependencies, and implementation considerations for policy decisions and subsequent drafting work.
• Provides strategic-level input on indirect tax definitions, scope, procedures, penalties, and transitional rules from a planning and framework perspective, ensuring alignment with institutional objectives and avoiding case-specific activities.

Operational Readiness & Implementation Planning

• Translates strategic priorities into implementation plans covering timelines, dependencies, resourcing, and readiness criteria.
• Prepares transition, communication, and training plans for major changes (e.g., e-invoicing phases, system or process updates).
• Assesses implications of major initiatives on taxpayer experience and administrative efficiency, ensuring changes simplify compliance and reduce process costs.
• Tracks and reports on benefits realization against agreed indicators (e.g., coverage, adoption, timeliness, accuracy), highlighting progress and recommending corrective measures where required.

Performance Frameworks & Analytics

• Defines KPIs and reporting packs for indirect tax strategy and programs; specifies calculation rules and data sources.
• Collaborates with the Data & Analysis Section to produce strategic dashboards and variance analyses (e.g., adoption, compliance behavior, anomalies), ensuring consistency between operational data insights and the Customer’s strategic performance objectives.
• Identifies patterns and trends to inform corrective actions, targeted campaigns, or process refinements.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Coordinates with Policy & Legislation, Taxpayer Compliance, Taxpayer Affairs, Information Systems & Digital Transformation, and Communications on planning inputs and delivery interdependencies.
• Coordinates with the Head of Indirect Tax Audit to support the operationalization and continuous improvement of indirect tax audit strategic objectives, ensuring alignment with the Customer’s broader strategy and performance targets.
• Chairs regular Whole-of-Indirect Tax Program meetings, bringing together all relevant functions to review progress, resolve interdependencies, and ensure alignment of initiatives across policy, audit, compliance, risk, and systems domains.
• Engages with relevant external counterparts (e.g., GCC peers/technical fora) for benchmarks and practices that inform planning.

Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Maintains planning artefacts (risk registers, assumptions logs, decision records) and ensures traceable documentation.
• Reviews progress against plans, flags risks/issues, and proposes corrective and preventive actions.
• Updates frameworks, templates, and guidance based on lessons learned and performance insights.
• Leads periodic reviews of taxpayer experience and administration processes to identify opportunities for simplification, cost reduction, and improved service outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

Preferred qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in Taxation, Accounting, Law, Economics, or Public Administration.

· Master’s degree in Taxation, Accounting, Economics, or Public Administration is an advantage.

· Professional certification in tax/accounting (e.g., CTA, CPA, ACCA) or recognized VAT/indirect tax credentials is an advantage.

Preferred experience

· 25+ years’ experience in indirect tax (VAT or similar), spanning strategy/planning, policy interface, and operational readiness.

· Experience breadth and relevance (across strategy, policy, and operations) matter more than sheer duration.

· Experience designing KPI frameworks and leading cross-functional planning for major indirect tax programs (e.g., VAT rollout/enhancements, e-invoicing).

Technical & Other Skills

· Indirect tax domain expertise (VAT scope/rules, compliance processes, e-invoicing concepts).

· Strategic planning, scenario analysis, and benefits realization tracking.

· KPI design, data interpretation, and dashboard requirements definition.

· Clear written communication, coordination across technical and operational teams, and structured problem-solving.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: QAR12,000.00 - QAR17,000.00 per month