Job Description
Job Title:
Investment Tax Lead
Posting Start Date:
9/16/26
Job Location:
Dubai
Legal Entity:
Zahid International FZE
Job Description:
Job Summary
Investment Tax Lead is responsible for supporting the Group's mergers and acquisitions, international investments, private equity and alternative investment fund activities, cross-border structuring initiatives, and global tax advisory projects. The role provides expert guidance on international tax matters, transaction structuring, and investment strategies to ensure tax efficiency, regulatory compliance, and alignment with business objectives. The incumbent collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to assess transaction risks, support due diligence activities, and deliver practical tax solutions across multinational operations and investment structures.
Accountabilities
1. Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
- Support tax due diligence reviews for domestic and cross-border acquisitions.
- Assess acquisition structures from tax, legal and commercial perspectives.
- Review Share Purchase Agreements (SPA), Shareholders’ Agreements (SHA) and transaction documentation from a tax standpoint.
- Evaluate financing structures, including shareholder loans, third-party debt and equity funding.
- Assist with post-acquisition integration and restructuring projects.
2. Investment Funds
- Review and analyse investment fund structures, including private equity, venture capital, hedge funds and real estate funds.
- Understand common fund legal structures (LPs, GP/LP arrangements, feeder funds, blocker corporations, SPVs and holding companies).
- Review subscription agreements, partnership agreements, offering memoranda and investor documentation.
- Analyse investor tax implications, including partnership interests, corporate blockers, withholding taxes and cross-border investment considerations.
- Coordinate with external legal and tax advisors on fund investments.
- Review and complete US tax forms and investor tax documentation, including Forms W-8BEN-E, W-8IMY, W-9, K-1, and other related withholding tax and investor reporting forms.
- Understand US partnership taxation concepts, effectively connected income (ECI), withholding tax regimes and blocker structures applicable to foreign investors.
- Assess reportable cross-border arrangements under DAC6.
- Coordinate DAC6 analyses with external advisors where required.
- Monitor legislative and regulatory developments affecting the Group’s international investments.
3. Stakeholder Management
- Support discussions with investment teams, finance, treasury and legal departments.
- Present technical findings and recommendations to senior management.
Knowledge, Skills and Aptitude
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Taxation or a related discipline.
- Professional qualification such as ADIT (Advanced Diploma in International Taxation) is required. Candidates currently pursuing ADIT and close to completion may also be considered.
- 5–7 years of relevant experience in International Tax, Transaction Tax, M&A Tax or Cross-Border Advisory.
- Previous experience with a Big Four firm or a multinational corporate tax function is highly preferred.
- Strong technical knowledge of international tax principles, investment fund structures and cross-border transactions.
- Experience with OECD BEPS initiatives, DAC6 reporting, Double Tax Treaties, Pillar two, withholding taxes and international tax structuring.
- Excellent analytical, research and technical writing skills.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior management and external advisors across multiple jurisdictions.
- Experience with tax research platforms such as IBFD, CCH or Bloomberg Tax is an advantage.