Senior Tax Associate – Pillar Two (GloBE) & Reg – Chalhoub Group

Chalhoub Group, a seven-decade-plus partner and creator of luxury across fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories in the Middle East, is hiring a Senior Tax Associate focused specifically on Pillar Two (GloBE) and broader regulatory tax compliance – a highly specialized role that reflects how significantly international tax rules have shifted for large multinational and regional groups in recent years.

The day-to-day work covers assessing and managing the group’s compliance obligations under the OECD’s Pillar Two global minimum tax framework, tracking regulatory developments across the jurisdictions Chalhoub operates in, and supporting broader tax compliance and reporting work across the group’s diverse portfolio of luxury brand partnerships and retail operations. It’s technically demanding work that requires staying genuinely current with a regulatory area that’s still evolving as different jurisdictions implement Pillar Two rules on different timelines.

It suits a tax professional with strong technical grounding in international tax, ideally with direct Pillar Two or GloBE exposure, who’s comfortable working across a complex, multi-jurisdictional group structure and translating dense regulatory requirements into practical compliance processes.

Pillar Two represents one of the most significant shifts in international corporate tax in decades, and getting a large group's compliance wrong - whether through missed obligations or misapplied rules across different jurisdictions - carries real financial and reputational risk. This Senior Tax Associate role is where Chalhoub Group manages that risk directly, making sure the group's tax position across its many luxury brand operations and jurisdictions stays compliant as the rules continue to be implemented globally. Given the complexity of a group operating across multiple countries and brand partnerships, strong technical tax work at this level protects the business from costly compliance failures and penalties, while also informing how the group structures and reports its operations going forward. For a company whose entire model depends on long-term brand partnerships with major global luxury houses, maintaining a clean, credible tax compliance position is also part of what sustains those commercial relationships over time.

Pillar Two and GloBE expertise is one of the most in-demand specializations in international tax right now, precisely because the rules are new, complex, and still being implemented differently across jurisdictions - building deep, hands-on experience in this area at a company as large and multi-jurisdictional as Chalhoub Group is a genuinely strong career move for a tax professional. This kind of specialized compliance experience is highly sought after by Big Four firms, multinational corporate tax teams, and other large regional groups navigating the same regulatory shift, which means the skills built here carry significant market value well beyond this one role. People who build strong Pillar Two expertise early typically progress into senior tax manager, head of tax, or international tax director roles, since demand for this specific expertise is only going to grow as more jurisdictions finalize their implementation. Working within Chalhoub's luxury retail and brand partnership structure also adds a distinctive, sector-specific angle to a tax career, since luxury retail groups have particular cross-border licensing and distribution structures that differ meaningfully from a standard multinational corporate structure - genuinely useful specialized knowledge for a tax professional's long-term career. It's also a specialization that tends to age well professionally, since the compliance obligations under Pillar Two are expected to keep evolving for years as more jurisdictions finalize their own implementation approach, keeping demand for this expertise sustained rather than short-lived.

• Professional tax or accounting qualification (CTA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent)
• Strong technical knowledge of international tax, with direct exposure to Pillar Two / GloBE rules a strong advantage
• Experience working within a multinational or multi-jurisdictional group structure
• Strong analytical skills for interpreting and applying complex regulatory requirements
• Ability to translate technical tax requirements into practical compliance processes for the business
• Strong attention to detail and comfort with regulatory ambiguity as rules continue to evolve