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Your Journey with Us

We are currently seeking an ambitious and experienced Indirect Tax Manager with exceptional analytical as well as creative skills to form part of our dynamic, specialist Indirect Tax Team. At Deloitte, we recognize there is no one size fits all career path, and we offer a range of possibilities to shape a unique and fulfilling journey. If you're ready to take your career to the next level in a challenging international environment, focusing on continuous learning and a dynamic client base, you're ready for Deloitte!

How you will Make an Impact

Reporting directly to the leader of the Indirect Tax function, you will be responsible for delivering and reviewing indirect tax advisory and compliance engagements, with a particular emphasis on Value Added Tax (VAT) as well as other indirect taxes and reporting requirements including CESOP, customs duties and excise duties.

Your main responsibilities would include:

• Advising clients on a wide range of indirect taxes, particularly VAT
• Consulting and proactively understanding client needs and working with them to develop relevant and valuable solutions
• Managing and reviewing the indirect tax component of tax due diligence engagements on transactions that involve mergers and acquisitions
• Proactively managing team members in their day-to-day work including addressing client requests
• Liaising with the Malta Tax and Customs Administration to discuss client indirect tax issues, and supporting with VAT audits and enquiries
• Contributing to initiatives to enhance and streamline indirect tax processes and systems
• Reviewing indirect tax compliance deliverables
• Reinforcing technical competence by keeping up-to-date on local and EU VAT and other indirect tax developments, trends and legislative changes, and applying this to client situations
• Supporting business development efforts including eminence-building initiatives, as well as pre-empting any potential business development initiatives

Let’s Talk About You

Having worked in the field of indirect taxation for at least 5 years, the ideal candidate will have experience in Malta / other EU Member States’ VAT law and its practical implications. Preference will be given to those in possession of a university degree or a masters in Accountancy, Law or Tax, or hold the equivalent of an ACCA qualification, or another relevant tertiary qualification.

Your Leadership skills:

• Supports team members’ development needs through formal and informal coaching and knowledge sharing
• Builds productive relationships within and across teams, and works with others across Deloitte as one team, sharing information and expertise
• Actively manages the work of their teams against project scope to maximize quality, effectiveness and value to both clients and to Deloitte
• Monitors own results against objectives and seeks feedback to identify ways to enhance quality and personal/team performance
• Makes informed decisions within their area of responsibility and makes recommendations to enhance quality and effectiveness
• Builds their own understanding of emerging market trends and educates others accordingly
• Projects enthusiasm, optimism and commitment to their work and to the team

Your Professional skills:

• Demonstrates integrity and an inquisitive mind, making reasonable inquiries if facts or information appear to be incorrect/incomplete, irrespective of pressures and circumstances
• Adapts to changing priorities as they arise, and seeks guidance where appropriate from the Indirect Tax Leader
• Has an excellent command of English, both in writing and verbally
• Identifies possible explanations and alternatives to solve a problem and defines valid solutions, drawing on technology tools

• Supports team(s) to understand the need to adapt and subsequently identify ways to adapt, when required
• Completes all training and other related professional obligations on a proactive and timely basis, while guiding team members to achieve the same
• Takes ownership of business development opportunities of medium complexity, or modules of more complex pursuits/opportunities

Your Specialized skills:

• Staying well informed on upcoming indirect tax legislative developments, including proposed changes, and the potential impacts on clients
• Building strong relationships with clients by thinking and acting in their best interest
• Having a strong professional interest and experience in VAT and/or other indirect taxes
• Post-graduate qualification in Taxation will be considered an asset (e.g. ADIT, or Masters in Taxation/LLM)

Our Story

The leading professional services firm worldwide, we offer value added services in audit & assurance, risk advisory, accounting, tax & legal, consulting and financial advisory.

Our local Tax function comprises of approximately 120 professionals. In Tax, you will get the opportunity to provide clients with the support and advice they need to make key decisions on an international scale. We bring together a mix of commercial, industry and technical tax and regulatory knowledge, creative thinking and innovative technology, to help solve some of the most complex business issues our clients face. In this increasingly high profile area, you’ll have the chance to understand how business, and your particular clients, really work.

As indirect tax impacts almost every business transaction, our Indirect Tax team is here to put things right when they go wrong, whether it’s through supporting with compliance and mitigation of penalties, giving advice to our clients before launching a new business, or helping them navigate everything from corporate reorganizations to digital transformation of the finance function and tax processes.

Why Deloitte?

As a Purpose-led organization, at the heart of everything we do is a set of timeless principles that distinguish the Deloitte culture. We foster diversity and inclusion and encourage you to bring your authentic self to work. Explore, question and collaborate while building a career that inspires and energies you. We tailor a personalized learning experience, offering you the opportunity to grow at your own pace and achieve maximum impact.

Life looks different for each of us, so we created a varied benefits package that you can tap into:

• Health Insurance cover for yourself and dependents
• Premium membership for corporate discounts in restaurants, retail, gyms and more
• Mental health support through sponsored therapy sessions
• Deloitte Communities to bring our people together and encourage work/life balance, social life and common interests
• Hybrid working option
• Digital learning, mentoring and regular performance snapshots
• World class training programmes with Deloitte University, and ongoing in-house training and updates all year round

Join us to make an impact! Apply now!