Tax Risk Specialist

Job Summary
Support the Tax Risk Section in proactively identifying, modeling, and assessing areas of potential tax law violations using data-driven methodologies. Contribute to generating prioritised risk profiles and case selections that inform targeted interventions by audit, inspection, and compliance functions. Play a key role in strengthening the authority’s ability to detect, forecast, and mitigate tax risks at national and cross-border levels, thereby enhancing revenue protection and compliance effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze potential tax risk areas using forecasts, research, and available data; conduct proactive and reactive risk assessments leveraging statistical models, behavioral analytics, and sectoral profiling.

• Identify risks related to international taxation by reviewing bilateral and multilateral agreements, monitoring treaty abuse, transfer pricing mismatches, and cross-border structuring risks.

• Prepare periodic reports detailing identified tax risks, methodologies, projected financial impacts, and recommendations.

• Develop and propose measures for risk mitigation, including targeted audits, compliance campaigns, and potential legislative adjustments.

• Support IT in developing analytical tools and systems to improve tax risk identification, management, and decision-making.

• Drive innovation in predictive analytics, automated reporting systems, and data improvement mechanisms.

• Monitor key indicators such as risk detection accuracy, audit conversion rates, and revenue impact.

• Ensure quality assurance, integrity, and governance of all risk-related datasets and analytical models.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Accounting, Data Science, Business Administration, or related field.

• Master’s degree in Economics, Data Analytics, Public Administration, or Business Administration preferred.

• Professional certification in risk management, auditing, or data analytics (e.g., CFE, CIA, CISA) is an advantage.

• 3–6 years’ experience in tax risk analysis, compliance, auditing, or data analytics, ideally within a government or financial/public sector environment.

• Familiarity with international tax principles, bilateral/multilateral tax agreements, and common compliance risks.

• Experience supporting risk-based audits, inspections, or compliance programs.

• Proficiency in data analysis tools (Excel, SQL); exposure to analytical software (Python, R, SAS) is an advantage.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills.

• Good communication and collaboration skills.

• Fluency in English; Arabic is an advantage

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