
About
Pankaj Agarwal
Tax Technology Leader, Dubai, UAE. CA · CPA · DITT.
Fifteen years of direct tax technology across Big Four, Fortune 100, FTSE 250, and the GCC’s largest corporate income tax programme.
- Years in tax technology
- 15+
- Projects delivered
- 40+
- Countries
- 7
- Continents
- 4
Experience
Senior Manager, Tax Technology Practice, Intellicore Consulting Group
Mar 2024 to present · Dubai · Saudi Arabia · Bahrain
GCC corporate tax programmes.
Manager, Tax Reporting Strategy & Technology, PwC
Oct 2022 to Mar 2024 · London · United States · Finland
Corporate tax and Pillar Two implementations.
Manager, Tax Management Consulting, Deloitte
Feb 2019 to Sept 2022 · United States · Netherlands · India
Oracle Direct Tax practice lead. 20+ tax technologists.
Management Consultant, Tax Transformation, Accenture
Dec 2017 to Feb 2019 · South Africa · India · Netherlands
Oracle TRCS and ARCS functional lead.
Tax Senior Representative — US Income Tax, Agilent / Keysight Technologies
Sept 2012 to Dec 2017 · India · United States · United Kingdom
Built a nine-person US federal and international tax team.
Qualifications
CA
ICAI, India, 2012
B.Com
Delhi University, 2011
CPA
Guam Board, USA, 2018
DITT
Diploma in Tax Technology, CIOT UK, Feb 2023
One of the first people in the world to complete the qualification, in February 2023. The CIOT profiled it as a case study.
Read the CIOT case studyOracle Fusion AI Agent
Oracle, 2024
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services, 2021
Practice areas
- Tax Transformation
Operating models and corporate income tax programmes at scale.
- Oracle EPM & AI
Cloud implementations, reporting, consolidation, Fusion AI agents.
- Corporate Tax
Pillar Two safe harbours, transfer pricing, audit-resistant computations.
- AI in Tax
Use cases, model development, agentic deployment.
Published work
- UAE Corporate Tax: the rule ledger
Each rule with its legal citation, worked examples and the date its sources were last reviewed.
- Pillar Two: the rule ledger
Each rule with its legal citation, worked examples and the date its sources were last reviewed.
- The four-day calculation
Pillar Two for a Saudi-headquartered energy group, from four working days to three hours.
- Before there was a manual
Oracle Tax Reporting and Account Reconciliation for a telecom group in 20 countries, among the first builds anywhere, taught to 30+ users onsite.
- Will AI Replace Tax Jobs? The Roles Gone by 2030, and the New Ones
- Why Pillar Two Demands a Tax Data Lakehouse, Not Another Spreadsheet
- How to Reduce Reliance on Big 4 for Tax Compliance
- Oracle Fusion AI Agents in Tax: From Proof of Concept to Production
- Chart of Accounts Mapping: Why Graph Databases Beat Flat Crosswalks
- The CFO's Blind Spot: Why Tax Provision Still Runs on Manual Overrides