Requirements
Requires 10-18 years of indirect tax experience with hands-on UAE VAT work, including registrations, return filing, and audits. Must have working knowledge of the UAE e-invoicing framework (DCTCE, ASPs, XML) and the ability to translate tax rules into system requirements for engineers. A professional qualification in tax, accounting, or law is essential, along with fluent English. Desirable experience includes exposure to hospitality/travel billing, prior e-invoicing implementation in KSA or other mandated markets, existing industry relationships, and Arabic language capability.
Description
Job description / Role
Job Type
Full Time
Job Location
Dubai, UAE
Nationality
Any Nationality
Salary
45000 - 60000 AED
Gender
Not Specified
Arabic Fluency
Not Specified
Job Function
Accounting & Audit
Company Industry
Travel, Hotel & Tourism
1. ROLE PURPOSE
• To own the tax truth of everything Finkraft builds for the UAE hospitality market — defining what a compliant hotel, commission and TMC invoice must contain, translating UAE VAT and e-invoicing regulation into system logic our engineers can build, and carrying that authority credibly with hotel finance teams, accredited service providers and advisors through the mandate.
2. ABOUT FINKRAFT
• Finkraft is a fintech SaaS company building a Finance Operating System for Travel & Hospitality. We help enterprises and ecosystem players manage invoicing, indirect taxes (GST/VAT), commissions, reconciliation and payments through deep, domain-led platforms.
• In India, Finkraft supports 1,200+ enterprises on GST automation, including HCL, Cleartrip, Philips, Volkswagen, Cipla, BCG, Tata Communications and JSW.
• In the Middle East, we are building the next layer of that infrastructure around UAE e-invoicing (DCTCE / Corner-5), PEPPOL interoperability, payments and a hospitality-specific understanding of how hotels, TMCs and corporates actually bill each other.
• The timing is not incidental. The UAE's voluntary pilot phase opened in July 2026; the mandate reaches large VAT-registered businesses on 1 January 2027 and the remaining VAT-registered population on 1 July 2027. Every hotel, TMC and corporate in this market has to solve invoicing properly within the next twelve months. We are building for that deadline, founder-led and on the ground in Dubai.
3. ROLE CONTEXT
• This is a founder-led, high-impact role that will shape how VAT and e-invoicing actually work for the hospitality ecosystem in the UAE and the wider GCC.
• You will not be writing advisory opinions. You will design real invoice structures, decide what is defensible in front of the FTA, translate the rules into product logic our engineers can build, and sit with hotel finance teams while UAE e-invoicing goes live.
4. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Design VAT-correct invoice structures for corporate hotel bookings, TMC-mediated bookings, MICE and group billing, commissions, credit notes and adjustments.
• Interpret UAE e-invoicing rules (DCTCE / Corner-5, PEPPOL) specifically for hospitality use cases, and take a position where the rules are ambiguous.
• Identify the grey areas, the risks and the likely audit failure points before our customers find them.
• Act as the tax authority inside the product team — convert regulation into system logic and validate that our invoice ? payment ? reconciliation flows are tax-sound.
• Work directly with hotel finance teams during pilots on VAT reclaim, disputes and documentation readiness.
• Hold credible conversations with ASPs, TMCs, advisors and, where required, the regulator.
Requirements:
5. CANDIDATE PROFILE
Essential
• 10–18 years' indirect tax experience, with demonstrable hands-on UAE VAT work — registrations, return filing, FTA clarifications and at least one VAT audit you personally led or answered for.
• Working knowledge of the UAE e-invoicing framework: the DCTCE five-corner model, the role of accredited service providers, and the requirement for structured XML under PINT AE / UBL 2.1.
• Demonstrated ability to convert a tax rule into a decision table or system requirement that a software engineer can implement without further interpretation.
• Experience taking and defending a position where the law is unsettled, rather than deferring every question to a clarification request.
• Professional qualification in tax, accounting or law (CTA, ACA, ACCA, CPA, LLB or equivalent), or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Desirable
• Exposure to hospitality, travel, airline or TMC billing — hotel folios, commissions, bill-back and group billing.
• Prior delivery of a KSA ZATCA / Fatoora e-invoicing implementation, or e-invoicing rollout experience in another mandated market.
• Existing relationships with accredited service providers, hotel finance leadership or UAE advisory firms.
• Experience as the tax voice inside a product or technology team.
• Arabic language capability.
• Preferred industry background
• Indicative of where we expect to find this experience. Capability evidenced elsewhere is equally welcome.
• Big4 indirect tax practices — PwC, Deloitte, EY, KPMG — with travel, hospitality or airline clients in the UAE or GCC.
• In-house VAT / tax leadership at hotel groups: Jumeirah, Rotana, Emaar Hospitality, Millennium, Kerzner, or the regional finance functions of Marriott, Accor, Hilton, IHG, Radisson.
• Airlines and travel: Emirates, Etihad, flydubai, Air Arabia, dnata, Seera / Al Tayyar.
• TMCs and travel aggregators with a UAE VAT footprint: Amex GBT, BCD Travel, CWT, dnata Travel.
• E-invoicing and compliance vendors / ASPs: Pagero, Sovos, Avalara, Comarch, Basware, Edicom, Clear, Cleartax.
• Mid-tier firms with strong UAE VAT practices are equally welcome — practical UAE VAT depth outranks brand.
Salary:
AED
45,000 to 60,000
per month inclusive of fixed allowances.
About the Company
We are called FinKraft.
What do we do?
FinKraft - Krafting reliable automated solutions to make complex business processes easier.
How do we do it?
The process of gathering information, collecting data from various sources and reconciling records is a very painstaking and complex process. With FinKraft, companies need not worry about any of it. We have built a robust automated SaaS platform to help our clients with these processes and eliminate human error.
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