Senior Accounts & Tax Consultant

About Astruc & Co.

Astruc & Co. is a
Dubai-based professional services firm. We combine, under one roof, a legal
practice, a corporate services practice, and an accounting, audit, tax, payroll
and liquidation services practice. Our footprint covers the Middle East and North
Africa and Western Europe including the United Kingdom, with further
territorial reach into Los Angeles, Mumbai and New York. In the UAE, we hold
offices in Dubai, Fujairah and Sharjah, and we serve clients across all
Emirates.

We are not a factory. We are a
house of specialists that behaves like a team.

Who our clients are

Our clients are high-net-worth
individuals, family offices, private business owners, entrepreneurs building
the next chapter of their venture, and mid-market to large corporate groups
operating in the UAE and abroad. They come to us because their affairs are not
simple: cross-border structures, multi-jurisdictional filings, sensitive family
matters, sophisticated investment vehicles, complex tax exposures. They come to
us because they want to speak to somebody who understands their file, remembers
it next month, and does the work with them — not to a partner who signs off on
the work of a junior who signs off on the work of another junior.

Our promise to them

Kindness. Patience. Excellence.
Care. These are
not slogans. They are the standard against which we measure every deliverable
that leaves this firm, every call we take, every email we send.

Our clients receive senior
attention on every matter. They receive answers that are technically sharp and
commercially practical. They receive them on time. And they receive them from
human beings who can articulate the reasoning behind the conclusion — not just
the conclusion itself.

Our team

We are a small, tight team where
the founders are still in the trenches. Managing Directors Romain and Muby
Astruc lead the firm together and personally handle client matters every day.
Our Department heads — Anup, on the accounting, audit, tax, payroll and
liquidation services side — do the same: they supervise, yes, but they also
open the ledger, review the reconciliation, sit with the client, and get the
work done.

Internally, we look after each
other. We speak plainly. We disagree openly and respectfully. We celebrate real
wins and we hold each other accountable — with kindness — when we fall short.
We do not run appraisals to tick boxes; we run them because we want each other
to grow.

The role

We are hiring a Senior Accounts
& Tax Consultant to serve high-end clients — HNWI and large corporate
groups — as their day-to-day accounting and tax point of contact. This is a
hands-on senior role.

You will own a portfolio of
demanding clients from end to end: bookkeeping, month-end and year-end closing,
UAE VAT compliance, UAE Corporate Tax registration and filing, audit
preparation and liaison with external auditors, and coordination with the firm's
legal, corporate services and revenue teams on anything that touches the
client's file. You will also be expected to think — about how to serve these
clients better, faster, more accurately, at a higher standard, with fewer
manual steps and more intelligent tooling.

Requirements

What we are looking for (and what we are
tired of)

We are tired of hiring juniors
who do not know accounting and tax, who are afraid of new technology, and who
believe a career is built by turning up.

We are equally tired of hiring
seniors who believe the job of a senior is to supervise the work of others.
That is not what we want.

We want a senior who genuinely
enjoys the day-to-day work of accounting: reconciling accounts, categorising
transactions, closing the books, filing the returns, sitting with a client's
ledger until it balances. We want a senior who has a working command of UAE VAT
and Corporate Tax and can hold a substantive technical conversation with a
demanding CFO or a UHNWI's family office. We want a senior who treats AI as a
colleague — who delegates data entry, categorisation, reconciliation drafts and
routine documentation to it, who reviews the output critically, and who then
spends their own time on what only a human accountant can do: judgement,
exception management, client relationship, strategic and technical thinking.
And, importantly, we want a senior who actively looks for opportunities to
bring AI-enabled and automation-enabled solutions into the firm to make us all
faster and better.

If you believe the firm's job is
to invest in tools and yours is to complain about them, this role is not for
you.

If you read the FTA guidance the
day it drops, know the difference between a good and a bad Zoho Books setup,
have strong opinions on Tally versus modern cloud accounting, and have already
used AI on real work — this role is for you.

Where you will actually spend your time

• Running the books of assigned client
  portfolios: bookkeeping, reconciliations, month-end and year-end closing,
  adjusting entries, supporting schedules.
  
• Preparing and filing UAE VAT returns
  and UAE Corporate Tax returns — with your own hands, at senior quality.
  
• Reviewing and improving each client's
  accounting setup — chart of accounts, workflows, tooling, integrations.
  
• Managing the client relationship at
  working level: understanding the business, anticipating needs, being
  reachable, explaining things clearly.
  
• Coordinating with our external
  auditors on the annual audit.
  
• Coordinating with the firm's legal,
  corporate services and revenue teams on anything that touches your
  clients.
  
• Identifying, testing and rolling out
  AI-based and automation-based improvements — for your own portfolio and,
  where it works, across the Department.
  
• Producing monthly management reports
  for your clients and structured status updates for your manager (Anup).
  

Our tooling and technology environment

We use Zoho Books and Tally
(with a live internal discussion on the balance between the two), Zoho CRM, and
a growing stack of AI tools — Claude among them — integrated into our daily
work. We expect you to be fluent with Excel, comfortable in a cloud accounting
environment, and curious about anything new that helps the team.

Benefits

What we offer

Competitive compensation aligned
with your seniority and technical depth. UAE benefits per applicable
regulations. Real client exposure to a demanding, cross-border portfolio. A
seat at a firm where your ideas about how the practice should evolve are heard
and, where they work, adopted. A team where senior does not mean absent, and
where AI does not mean less human attention — it means more of it, on the
things that matter.